Tundish on unvented cylinder.

[Howsie]

You may well have Gas Safe people you work with but that certification has nothing to do with working on an unvented hot water system. You will also know that you do not need a certificate for your tenants and your Rental Agents will know that as well.

All in all you really do seem to be confusing very different disciplines which does say a lot about your underlying knowledge.

 

[Riley]

The gas safe people are risking their registration, reputation, livelihood among others and they are also putting tenants lives at risk. Why somebody would put their name to someone else's work is beyond me. You are just trying to cut costs and cut corners and you are just putting people at risk and I can guarantee in a court of law you would not be deemed competent

 

[SimonG]

The forum 'thug' will be along later. Might get some strongbow on the way home and some popcorn. Probably be a short and shrift response though.

On another note. It would be good to see you in court arguing your idea of competency Also you are incorrect in your assumption that you could just 'join' a competent person scheme. Which is probably why you have not.

 

[Best]

I agree that you should post a few photos of your unvented cylinder plumbing, if you are confident it is to building regs and all going to be approved.
At the very least, plumbers here can give you the thumbs up, or thumbs down on your work. You can't just be given detailed advice on it.

 

[Rickster123]

I'd love to see some photos too! I vote it stays open till then...

 

[Riley]

Have a feeling we're not gonna hear back

 

[Howsie]

The silence is deafening...

 

[Rickster123]

Have a feeling we're not gonna hear back

I hope he's quick before croppie comes stomping in with his big child size 5 boots on..

 

[macackau]

I'd love to see some photos too! I vote it stays open till then...

Gets my vote too! I love a bit of DIY work, it's what will pay my pension.

 

[Dotty]

"Honest, guv, I'm competent." Is neither a measure of competency nor would it stand up in a court of law should it come to it.

Part G of the Building Regulations and the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations, amongst others, perfectly describe what constitutes a competent person.

Every month in the gsr magazine we see those with the same attitude as you receiving either fines of tens of thousands of pounds or even custodial sentences. The gas engineers you say you use to check your work are also acting illegally as has been previously proven through the court of law.

There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for exposing your tenants to potentially dangerous workmanship.

I hope you get hung out to dry.

And I'm still watching this thread.

 

[Dotty]

I hope he's quick before croppie comes stomping in with his big child size 5 boots on..

You'll be getting so many rights you'll be begging for a left.....

 

[chris watkins]

"3.40 The safety and performance of an unvented system is dependent on the choice of system and safety devices appropriate for the location and correct installation of the system. Building owners and occupiers should therefore take care to choose installers who have the necessary skills to carry out this work. These skills can be demonstrated for example, by registration with a competent person scheme for his type of work or by the holding of a current registered operative skills certification card for unvented hot water systems."

I am posting this section of Building Regulation Part G 3 not for grahams (OP) benefit because people like him will not worry about breaking the Law in search for a profit.

It is posted for others who at a later date who may read through this post & think that somehow they are allowed to do as he does.

 

[Howsie]

But he'll carry on thinking that he knows best and all we're trying to do is prop up the industry. I do hope that he realises that this thread is visible proof that he undertook work which he was not qualified to do and that should anything happen, God forbid, to his tenants he will be hung out to dry.

Skin flints like him ruin peoples lives.

 

[Riley]

He doesn't care he'll carry on. I wish we could find these people

 

[PlumbBobBob]

oh and if he does come back and asks for this thread to be deleted, he will be sorely mistaken.