will you install the gas pipe work and commission boiler

[stevetheplumber]

i realy cant see how its any different to doing a safety check or survey on a property

 

[acecharly]

exactly steve... i take it anyone who wouldnt do this has never serviced a boiler without seeing its gas cert first.

 

[Leo21]

i realy cant see how its any different to doing a safety check or survey on a property

I do, you don't normally make a good days labour out of a gas safety check. The type of people who do this are tight wads, there just not worth doing.

 

[Mike Jackson]

Signing off a boiler install and carrying out a gas safety check are two completely different things. When you sign off a boiler you are stating that it is securely fitted, the flue is correctly fitted etc. The only way you can confirm this is if you have fitted the boiler yourself. With a safety check you can only comment that things are working correctly at the time of your visit, you are not commenting on things that it is not possible to check after the boiler has been fitted and the making good done.


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[AWheating]

is it not also against the regulations to sign off work performed by a non registered person? the only way to cover yourself is to insist that you fit the boiler. As mike says your signing to say that you have installed the appliance. Your also notifying it to gas safe/building control so need to be sure its all correct. Once notified gas safe will offer a free check, if taken up and the inspector gets told by a proud diyer "i fitted the boiler, i just got an engineer to sign it off" you may have to asnwer some questions 🙁

I would charge for atleast days money depending on the gas run and fit the boiler or remove it and refit which should only take 30 mins to an hour in most cases anyway. You will have to flush etc... so would have to deal with any problems with the wet side even if its nowt to do with you to get it commissioned correctly.