Medway Gas

[Pye_End]

I am finally getting round to the part of last year's insurance survery which requires me to re-think the gas installation, and then have it inspected by a CORGI.

Has anyone had any experience with the latter part, and if so can anyone recommend somebody in the Medway area?

 

[sailorman]

its noe centrica who run the scheme thatalfuckem

 

[Cantata]

Jonathan, I believe the only people in the area with the correct Corgi ticket are Swale Gas. Having said that, isn't the Corgi scheme being phased out and replaced by something else...

 

[Pye_End]

Thanks both of you for that.

I have just re-read the survey - it reads:

Recommendation – The installation should be overhauled and then it should be checked for leaks by a suitably qualified person conversant with the regulations for the storage and use of LPG in a marine application.

Now how exactly would you read this? I can become 'conversant with the regs' from excellent links previously provided on this site, and leak detection similarly is pretty straight forward, so does this mean that I can do it?

 

[dombuckley]

There is no requirement to be Corgi-registered to work on your own property; only Corgi-registered fitters can certify work, but this is only required for residential or charter boats.

I think your surveyor may have had a slight slip of the typewriter: certainly under the Boat Safety Scheme, the recommendation is for work to be undertaken by a "suitably competent person". This means that there is no restriction on you doing the work yourself, so long as you have read up on the regs and procedures, and feel that you are able to it.
If you get anybody in to do it, then they will need to be "suitably qualified": i.e. Corgi or whatever is next.

 

[jmac]

Spend £40 on a bubble leak detector and go for it!

 

[Pye_End]

I intend to do the work myself. I see what you mean about the survey wording, although I had read it that it was only the inspection that required a qualified eye placed over it.

The current installation does not have a dedicated gas locker, or a bubble leak detector, or an isolator on the cooker, all of which I am in the process of rectifying. If I have to get somebody in to give it the nod when I am finished then it would be better to talk things over before I take the saw to the aft locker, just in case! However, being a boat owner I hate paying for other people to do things that I can do myself, and having to pay for somebody to put soapy water over 4 joints goes against th grain. With a bubble detector it is even easier no doubt. However, if the insurance company requires it then some of the point of doing it is lost.

Maybe I shall question the need with the insurance company before proceeding. So far it seems nobody else has been required to do this.....