Advice on work done by gas safe engineer

[CHRISX]

My shorter response is that I saw a gas safe inspector recently and he said whenever moved needs notifying

Hello again Riley,

I know that We are correct in that Boilers that are moved must be notified.

I have just remembered [checked some paperwork] that I used one of the Boilers that I moved some years ago as an example `Gas Works` for a CORGI Inspection and one more recently for a Gas Safe Inspection.

As I was writing my `Story` above I wondered how many Gas Engineers / Installers were given that wrong `information` by the CORGI Technical Advisor and never bothered to check whether it was correct and since then never notified any Boiler that they moved within the same Home / Building ?

Although it is a long time ago now it was disgraceful that the CORGI Technical Advisor alluded to - `perhaps there are not enough non -notified Boiler moves within the same premises to be concerned about` - as ONE badly installed Gas Appliance can Kill !

It has occurred to me that if some Heating Engineers / Gas Engineers asked a question of Gas Safe Technical unless it was a very contentious subject whatever answer they received would form their `future knowledge` / guidelines to be followed in the future ?

Hopefully there is no incorrect information given out by the Gas Safe Technical Helpline so no future problems can occur related to misinterpretations of the Gas Regulations / applicable Building Regulations.

Chris

 

[DjClubber]

CORGI out of the Equation to be fair. . .

 

[mallone655]

The tank that you have in the picture looks like a feed and expansion tank for a vented syatem. This will not be in use anymore if you have had the heating system pressurised.

 

[Harvest Fields]

@Paul2410 you dislike my post but have been a member since November and not made 1 comment???

 

[firemant]

That connector shouldn’t be on the condense pipe either. It should be solvent and as Shaun said. Where the UFH people Gas Safe?

I thought I had posted this the other day but cannot see it?
Anyway, I have never heard that compression fittings are not allowed, is this definite and where does ir say so?
Some guys even say, wrongly IMO, SW should not be used as the condense can attack the glue.

I often fitted a compression near the boiler to aid disconnection in the future.

 

[DjClubber]

Its not a compression its a speed fit 22mm coupling. . .

 

[ShaunCorbs]

To be fair the speedfit coupling is fine and acceptable

Not that I would use one

 

[Harvest Fields]

To be fair the speedfit coupling is fine and acceptable

Not that I would use one

Same as push fit in my eyes. Still has a rubber seal. Would never fit or recommend it done that one.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Same as push fit in my eyes. Still has a rubber seal. Would never fit or recommend it done that one.

True but most condense in boilers are done with orings and clips / pushfit etc

 

[Harvest Fields]

True. But not likely to be messed with by customers.

 

[DjClubber]

I only meant it was a Speed Fit in the Pic, other guy mentioning Compression. I agree acceptable but not best practice according to MI etc. . .

 

[CHRISX]

CORGI out of the Equation to be fair. . .

Hello DjClubber,

You obviously don`t know that Gas Safe employed any of the CORGI Technical Advisers that wanted to continue working as Gas Register Technical Advisers.

I believe that most of them transferred to Gas Safe - no doubt influenced by the fact that the new Gas Safe offices were also in Basingstoke.

In fact they took on a lot of the CORGI Staff that wanted to stay employed by the new organisation running UK Gas Register.

The Gas Technical Advisers were no longer of any use to CORGI but were vital to Gas Safe so employing them enabled a `handover` style continuation of the Gas Technical Advice service to Gas Safe.

It would have been quite likely that the CORGI Technical Adviser that I mentioned had given me what I considered to be incorrect advice was / is employed by Gas Safe.

As CORGI is still operating as a Company they obviously kept quite a number of the Administrating staff but not Gas specific staff.

Chris

 

[firemant]

True. But not likely to be messed with by customers.

Why would a customer do so? Any more than attack the SW pipe with a JH?

 

[Harvest Fields]

Why would a customer do so? Any more than attack the SW pipe with a JH?

I never under estimate the power of stupidity.

 

[firemant]

I never under estimate the power of stupidity.

TBF, we are not the StupidPolice.

 

[Harvest Fields]

I am, In my own work.

 

[finchy01]

To echo others. Filter isn't in the ideal place, but better there than not at all. Water tank looks like the old tank feeding the heating so it is no longer in use. How does the big tank look? That's the one that he should have cleaned. It doesn't look like the neatest install ever but you might be gunning for this guy when he is in the right. I would suggest maybe paying someone an hour's labour to come out and check over the system before you take anymore action. Depending on where you are £50-£100 might be a small price to pay to give you peace of mind and potentially causing you both a headache when it could be avoided. To be fair, I'd have the hump if someone employed another gas engineer days after I'd been there, that or if be questioning where I went wrong!