Gas Installation Requirements

[webcraft]

The only time I used a certified professional he over tightened all the fittings, charged me 150 quid and still left me with a leak.

I have used a CORGI pro twice, once to install an LPG heating system which was later condemned and shut down in a subsequent inspection as being dangerous, and once to rectify the faults in the system and to fit a gas cooker (LPG) in a house. While using the cooker for the first time I noticed a leak - in the form of a flame ffs - coming out from the feed pipe to the burner I was using. Needless to say I was not impressed and would now avoid so-called professionals like the plague whenever possible.


- W

 

[VicS]

I have used a CORGI pro twice, once to install an LPG heating system which was later condemned and shut down in a subsequent inspection as being dangerous, and once to rectify the faults in the system and to fit a gas cooker (LPG) in a house. While using the cooker for the first time I noticed a leak - in the form of a flame ffs - coming out from the feed pipe to the burner I was using. Needless to say I was not impressed and would now avoid so-called professionals like the plague whenever possible.


- W

Gas Safe Register replaced CORGI as the gas registration body in Great Britain and Isle of Man on 1 April 2009 and in Northern Ireland and Guernsey on 1 April 2010.

By law all gas engineers must be on the Gas Safe Register it is therefore difficult to avoid professionals unless you prefer illegally operating cowboys.

If you have any unsatisfactory work done you should report the "engineer" or registered business to Gas Safe Register

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

As a "very practical" man I would follow the adage that "if you want a job done well, do it yourself".

By all means look at the "Regulations" to ascertain best practice but then follow your engineering instincts of never taking anything for granted and make no short cuts.

By the way I am about to fit an electric "fail safe" valve immediately after the regulator; illuminated push button switch close to the cooker which is lit when the valve is open and a healthy reminder to isolate all gas from the cabin when not in use.

I hope it's gas tight

 

[NickRobinson]

https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/ Is owned by the Canal and River trust, a notoriously ott organisation. If you follow their other guidelines applying them to our yots we would never be able to use them as we do. Follow my link to the RYA for the definitive that applies to us!

I've put two canal boats through the BSS (some time ago). They were trailer boats and taken by road to Sawley IIRC and surveyed ashore with both passing, one needed some labels, one the fire extinguisher wasn't kite marked. Neither had the hulls checked for integrity so I assume 'sinking' isn't a BSS fail...