Any clarification re the following would be very much appreciated please....
If I've understood what I've read correctly, then as a householder I'm able to disconnect my cooker's bayonet hose, move my cooker from situ (for cleaning purposes for instance) & then reconnect it...so long as the disconnection is only temporary, without requiring the services of a gas safe engineer, required to address a more permanent disconnection..
That, in effect, I'm able to disconnect/reconnect my cooker so long as it's from/to the same service point....that disconnecting from one point & reconnecting to another alternative/new point elsewhere at my property or another property entirely would require a gas safe inspection?
If that's about right then what please of the following situation?
I bought a new cooker, connected up by a GSE. I used it for 4yrs, never a problem re my yearly gas inspection & a joy to use.
Suckered into thinking that some newer, all singing, cooker would be nicer, the old cooker is disconnected & a new one connected...by a GSE.
The old cooker is wheeled into the service/laundry room off of the kitchen with the intention of free-cycling it.
After some three months I'm already hating the new cooker for too many a reason & thinking to return the old cooker...but having spent £600 so I grind on with this damn cooker for over 3yrs, always keeping the old one by for when I can finally take no more.
Having now reached that point I've disconnected the crap new cooker, dumped it & reconnected the old cooker.
From my lay perspective I've simply disconnected/reconnected a cooker from/to the same service point...it wasn't temporary for sure, the lengthy time between taken up by another cooker connected to that same point.
What's now bothering me is my next yearly inspection....I have inspection reports for the past three years & each one specifies the cooker connected...the crappy new one. So when the engineer next calls, they will note a different cooker...my old one.
Is that engineer likely to start demanding that the regulations, in this instance, require certification by a GSE?
Basically...have I fallen foul of them or not please?
Thanks/Gill
If I've understood what I've read correctly, then as a householder I'm able to disconnect my cooker's bayonet hose, move my cooker from situ (for cleaning purposes for instance) & then reconnect it...so long as the disconnection is only temporary, without requiring the services of a gas safe engineer, required to address a more permanent disconnection..
That, in effect, I'm able to disconnect/reconnect my cooker so long as it's from/to the same service point....that disconnecting from one point & reconnecting to another alternative/new point elsewhere at my property or another property entirely would require a gas safe inspection?
If that's about right then what please of the following situation?
I bought a new cooker, connected up by a GSE. I used it for 4yrs, never a problem re my yearly gas inspection & a joy to use.
Suckered into thinking that some newer, all singing, cooker would be nicer, the old cooker is disconnected & a new one connected...by a GSE.
The old cooker is wheeled into the service/laundry room off of the kitchen with the intention of free-cycling it.
After some three months I'm already hating the new cooker for too many a reason & thinking to return the old cooker...but having spent £600 so I grind on with this damn cooker for over 3yrs, always keeping the old one by for when I can finally take no more.
Having now reached that point I've disconnected the crap new cooker, dumped it & reconnected the old cooker.
From my lay perspective I've simply disconnected/reconnected a cooker from/to the same service point...it wasn't temporary for sure, the lengthy time between taken up by another cooker connected to that same point.
What's now bothering me is my next yearly inspection....I have inspection reports for the past three years & each one specifies the cooker connected...the crappy new one. So when the engineer next calls, they will note a different cooker...my old one.
Is that engineer likely to start demanding that the regulations, in this instance, require certification by a GSE?
Basically...have I fallen foul of them or not please?
Thanks/Gill
