Electricians and Boilers ??

[jtsplumbing]

Call'd out to a fault with a Potterton boiler , (Insurance job) customer had reported what she thought was a fault with power supply, sparks told her the fault was with the PCB and wrong fuse's in board, so insurance will not pay for repair ! so she asked me to have a look, turns out to be a duff fan, Now being has the sparks had been messing around inside the boiler and we are telling people on here that you have to be GS to remove the case !! how does this stand with Electricians ?? I would have thought he could-not go past the spur, and he should have asked for a gas engineer to check out the boiler I will be asking GS tomorrow about this, Can a electrician remove the boiler case ?? any feed back would be welcome.

 

[Resolute]

An electrician can only remove the case if they are GSR.

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

sparkies are not qualified to work on boilers and should be prosecuted accordingly IMHO

 

[jtsplumbing]

That was my thought, but seems to be a bit of a gray area!

 

[neily01]

Wouldnt say its grey at all they are not qualified and what about if they dont seal the appliance correctly? They wouldnt know what a positive pressure casing was if it smacked them in the snout!!

 

[AWheating]

some boilers can be wired without breaking into the combustion chain, worcester new boiler has been designed to allow sparks to be able to access the electrics without the whole case off. And also one reason why worcester put a flying lead on there range.

Most sparks ive known dont think twice about taking cases off, and ive seen it plenty of times where they have lost a case screw and just let it missing. I always check if i know a sparks been near it.

 

[stevetheplumber]

we had a sparks wire up 16 vaillants he took out the rubber grommets and chucked them away

 

[ambrosia]

if you cant allow a plumber to theres no way a sparky should be allowed to

 

[kozak1968]

Our electrician wires them up but wont turn on unless GSR engineer is present.

 

[TBServices]

Usually a spark will only be there prior to commissioning, and alongside a GSR. So provided there's no gas to the appliance and it hasn't yet been commissioned I don't really see the problem? Unless I'm just naive lol