Gas safe or not to be...

kirkgas · Oct 25, 2015

Fallon1982 said:
Well I just think it's wrong that he's done it and obviously does it time and time again.
If you can freely go around do all this gas work like him then what's the point paying to be gas safe?
You guys pay enough to get your tickets at the end of the day. The laws should be firmer imo.

Start by reporting the illegal work to Gas Safe or HSE, advise customer to report to trading standards, advise customer to pay GSR to fully check install to ensure it is safe, this will/may be costly and intrusive depending on pipe,runs etc, but at the moment it hasn't been confirmed as safe

JCSPLUMBING · Oct 25, 2015

I have a mate who always does this also on private jobs. He's a very decent plumber as well. He fits everything how it should be done and just gets his mate to fill in the benchmark for a fee. I asked him just yesterday why don't he just join gas safe and his response was if its all done correctly then what's the point as no one cares anyway. Also the £2000 it would cost him was another issue.

hammers4spanner · Oct 25, 2015

I came across a job few weeks ago where they asked me to service their boiler and i AR it'd it..Turned out they had the boiler installed by a plumber and they knew he wasnt gas reg. The gasman he wanted to sign it off wouldn't as he knew pipework was undersized.

I turn up to do a service and notice the pipe issue so inform customer and then they ask me to sign it off!!!

They couldn't care less who they used but wanted me to sign it off for price of a service , unfortunately some people just don't care and gas safe don't either.

kirkgas · Oct 26, 2015

JCSPLUMBING said:
I have a mate who always does this also on private jobs. He's a very decent plumber as well. He fits everything how it should be done and just gets his mate to fill in the benchmark for a fee. I asked him just yesterday why don't he just join gas safe and his response was if its all done correctly then what's the point as no one cares anyway. Also the £2000 it would cost him was another issue.

I think the person who signs it off is worse than the plumber who asks him