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symptomless
Hi,
We bought our house in July and were satisfied that we had all the requirements regards the HIP and CORGI certificate for the gas boiler and installation.
We had problems with the boiler in September and called the original installers and issuers of the CORGI cert to fix the problems but weren't satisfied with their work, i.e. they replaced a some obviously broken parts but still couldn't get the boiler working correctly. They then diagnosed a broken fan and quoted and additional £250 to replace which we later found wasn't broken.
We called out the boiler manufacturer who inspected and told us the boiler, including the fan was in perfect working order. The error was in the electrics, which were also installed by the original company.
Since then we've had a call out from a heating engineering company who say that the electrics and gas installation are at best very shoddy, at worse, illegal.
The original installation company say that they will come back to do superficial work on the electrics (probably to cover up their own shoddy electrical work) but will not fix the boiler.
Gas Safe say that because the work on the boiler installation was carried out for a different customer then they cannot help us.
What on earth is the point of the CORGI Certificate?
Its absolutely worthless. Worse than that, its cost us £900 so far to put some of the work right. It will cost us a lot more to fix the real problems.
We bought our house in July and were satisfied that we had all the requirements regards the HIP and CORGI certificate for the gas boiler and installation.
We had problems with the boiler in September and called the original installers and issuers of the CORGI cert to fix the problems but weren't satisfied with their work, i.e. they replaced a some obviously broken parts but still couldn't get the boiler working correctly. They then diagnosed a broken fan and quoted and additional £250 to replace which we later found wasn't broken.
We called out the boiler manufacturer who inspected and told us the boiler, including the fan was in perfect working order. The error was in the electrics, which were also installed by the original company.
Since then we've had a call out from a heating engineering company who say that the electrics and gas installation are at best very shoddy, at worse, illegal.
The original installation company say that they will come back to do superficial work on the electrics (probably to cover up their own shoddy electrical work) but will not fix the boiler.
Gas Safe say that because the work on the boiler installation was carried out for a different customer then they cannot help us.
What on earth is the point of the CORGI Certificate?
Its absolutely worthless. Worse than that, its cost us £900 so far to put some of the work right. It will cost us a lot more to fix the real problems.