gas safe still got no bite / people are stupid :(

[Riley]

so then, the legal aspect of it is a farce!

if just anyone can buy spares then you cant be held accountable to fitting them as it was sold to repair!!!!!!!
same as smoking, if you can buy them over 18yrs but you die..tough luck!

like to see that one in the high court.

I know, as I said mate it almost needs a new organisation to come in a bit heavy handed as gas safe seem to have become a bit of a soft touch

 

[ShaunCorbs]

I know, as I said mate it almost needs a new organisation to come in a bit heavy handed as gas safe seem to have become a bit of a soft touch

dont think they ever swung the hammer to be honest they have always been a feather

 

[ShaunCorbs]

The whole sale to the public thing is so difficult though as Ray has pointed out on numerous occasions when you start selling to big companies or to housing associations that sort of thing immediately the people that are buying it are not going to be Gas Safe.

my view tough poo there the biggest dodgers of the lot, might be able to get a fair wage at the end of it

think the county needs to go cold turkey regarding the lot nothing sold or bought without a gas safe card no matter what

 

[Riley]

Agreed mate but we need an organisation strong enough to enforce it. As with so many of these things money is the root of all evil and those bigger companies that stamp their feet get their own way

 

[REDSAW]

Agreed mate but we need an organisation strong enough to enforce it. As with so many of these things money is the root of all evil and those bigger companies that stamp their feet get their own way

thats what i was getting at
60% vote of no confidence!!!!!!!!

 

[hammers4spanner]

Gas safe is a complete sham simple as that.

 

[Riley]

Don't even know where to begin with complaining about it

 

[REDSAW]

Don't even know where to begin with complaining about it

https://www.change.org/en-GB/start-...ign=GST_USER_GBRT1_SCHT1_government_petitions

 

[plumben]

The hole gas safe/corgi is just a money pot if you ask me, you can make more money doing illegal installs and paying the small fine then doing it legitimately

 

[quality]

The hole gas safe/corgi is just a money pot if you ask me, you can make more money doing illegal installs and paying the small fine then doing it legitimately

That maybe true but I could not sleep at night if I did that

 

[Riley]

https://www.change.org/en-GB/start-...ign=GST_USER_GBRT1_SCHT1_government_petitions

Problem is mate that it'll only be us guys that sign it!! I did a search on that site and there was some woman who was trying to petition for McMillan registered gas safe tradesmen so that people with cancer had one less thing to worry about. A just cause no doubt but a bit too specific to get much backing. Only 19 people had signed it

 

[Rckape]

With GS being owned/ran by Capita and the government seemingly in Capita's pocket I can't really see anything changing.

It'll take something like the MP's daughter dying in a house fire started by an electrical fault that hugely accelerated the part P mess before anyone takes us seriously.

 

[Riley]

But based on the news and HSE reports there are near misses and the occasional death more often than I think they'd like to admit. Funny how we never hear the follow up to it. Makes you wonder if it's just brushed under the carpet almost as if the don't want to or can't deal with it

 

[Rckape]

It's going to have to happen to someone that the government care about for it to change though. They don't give a monkeys about us plebs.

 

[Riley]

It's going to have to happen to someone that the government care about for it to change though. They don't give a monkeys about us plebs.

True enough

 

[hammers4spanner]

We are doing now what we will always do about gas safe nothing absolute nothing other than moan about them.
I know builders that can phone up gas safe get advice which defeats all the idea of 'gas safe '

 

[Riley]

Thing is I'd be happy to try and initiate some sort of complaint or petition but I just don't know where to start where it would actually get seriously looked at

 

[plumben]

Trouble is no one apart from gas safe engineers actually care, I've had loads of people ask if I can do gas, I'm not gas safe so I can't on my own, they always say they dont mind if I'm not gas safe they wont tell anyone,

 

[Riley]

That's where the problem is. A lack of legal visibility paired with a lack of deterrent

 

[plumben]

That's where the problem is. A lack of legal visibility paired with a lack of deterrent

The only way anything will change is if enough people die in a short period of time all from illegal installs