Cspirit
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Any recommendations for someone to install a new gas sytem in my boat, currently based in Newcastle (UK)?
Corgi gas installer Newcastle
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VicS
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If you get no recommendations it is in theory possible to find Corgi installer by using the facility on the Gorgi website. http://www.trustcorgi.com/findinstaller/findaninstaller.htmx
Select "in my home" it never seems to get any results if you select "outside my home"
Select "in my home" it never seems to get any results if you select "outside my home"
Bilgediver
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Select "in my home" it never seems to get any results if you select "outside my home"
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Possibly due to the fact that there are many Corgi installers qualified to fix dodgy boilers in your home however next to none who have the qualification to work outside your home on an marine LPG installation.
The system does throw up installers where they exist. In Scotland there is one on the west coast.
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Possibly due to the fact that there are many Corgi installers qualified to fix dodgy boilers in your home however next to none who have the qualification to work outside your home on an marine LPG installation.
The system does throw up installers where they exist. In Scotland there is one on the west coast.
maxi77
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As I understand it many have left the business because there is too much costly certification for the ammount of business, you may have more success in a canal forum where BWB enforce the strictest regulations.
VicS
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canal forum where BWB enforce the strictest regulations.
[/ QUOTE ] Which includes the use of a corgi registered installer I believe. You can do your own installation away from the inland waterways, although you might run into trouble Doing installations professionally if not Corgi registered.
I reply to Bilgediver : you can still enter that it is for LPG, in fact you have to specify the type of gas, and that it is for a boat. Even if you get names of people you won't visit a boat that is not in your home (????) you at least get a number(if there are any) of installers qualified to work on LPG and hopefully prepared to work on boats who you can contact. Better than no results at all.
canal forum where BWB enforce the strictest regulations.
[/ QUOTE ] Which includes the use of a corgi registered installer I believe. You can do your own installation away from the inland waterways, although you might run into trouble Doing installations professionally if not Corgi registered.
I reply to Bilgediver : you can still enter that it is for LPG, in fact you have to specify the type of gas, and that it is for a boat. Even if you get names of people you won't visit a boat that is not in your home (????) you at least get a number(if there are any) of installers qualified to work on LPG and hopefully prepared to work on boats who you can contact. Better than no results at all.
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With apologies to anyone who is a gas fitter, but from my experience you would be better off getting a blind, one-armed monkey to do it.
It isn't rocket science, do it yourself.
It isn't rocket science, do it yourself.
narooma
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but from my experience you would be better off getting a blind, one-armed monkey to do it.
It isn't rocket science, do it yourself. .
I bet Cspirit found this really helpful. You could at least have given him the benifit of your experience and told him how long to pressure test the system and what pressure to test it to.
It isn't rocket science, do it yourself. .
I bet Cspirit found this really helpful. You could at least have given him the benifit of your experience and told him how long to pressure test the system and what pressure to test it to.
maxi77
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canal forum where BWB enforce the strictest regulations.
[/ QUOTE ] Which includes the use of a corgi registered installer I believe. You can do your own installation away from the inland waterways, although you might run into trouble Doing installations professionally if not Corgi registered.
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As I understand it BWB requirements are for fitters to have add on certification to standard Corgi which is why people who will work on boats arebecoming so few and far between.
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canal forum where BWB enforce the strictest regulations.
[/ QUOTE ] Which includes the use of a corgi registered installer I believe. You can do your own installation away from the inland waterways, although you might run into trouble Doing installations professionally if not Corgi registered.
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As I understand it BWB requirements are for fitters to have add on certification to standard Corgi which is why people who will work on boats arebecoming so few and far between.
ThereAndBack
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For what it is worth - check your local caravan site (Whitley Bay??) as a CORGI fitter who is qualified to work on caravans can also work on boats. It is the same qualification.
Been a nice day in Newcastle today, hasn't it?
Alan
Been a nice day in Newcastle today, hasn't it?
Alan
VicS
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Corgi fitters are required to be separately authorised / certificated / endorsed to work on LPG systems. It has nothing to do specifically to do with boats or the BWB it applies to LPG systems anywhere. As far as I know , but I could well be wrong, there is no other special requirement to work on boats other than the willingness to do so.
A Corgi fitter who works on LPG systems without the appropriate authorisation will be disciplined by Corgi. They publish details on their website of disciplinary action taken against rogues.
A Corgi fitter who works on LPG systems without the appropriate authorisation will be disciplined by Corgi. They publish details on their website of disciplinary action taken against rogues.
maxi77
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Yes I understand, i know some one who was a CORGI fitter for boats, but 'retired' from the scheme and as a result no longer is avaiable for gas work because the extras added on as he understood it to satisfy BWB made the cost of remaining in date uneconomic related to his volume of work.
