See link below to relevant legislation on gas safety.
Bear in mind also all work on the gas side was carried out by a registered Corgi engineer.
However much you might want it to be otherwise nothing in the regulations requires you to be registered with CORGI or HSE to work on a heating system -even on the gas side. The exception is when you are doing work for gain.
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in itself, IF you are competent, you can work on gas without being corgi registered.
however, it IS illegal to certify a boiler as being installed by a RGI when it is in fact installed by a diy-er. and as we all know, employing someone to commit an offense is an offense as well.
you are at least number 714 in the past 12 months who thought he is clever, but it is very clearcut.
what you have done is illegal, can be prosecuted, both yourself and the cowboy who signed it off.
Hi Bengass.
I am pleased that you have a balanced view on the meaning of the gas regulations that is much the same as my own.
To clarify what I and the commisioning engineer did.
I, 1)brought the water pipes close to the boiler,
2)bolted the boiler to the wall
3) cored the wall for the flue
4)aligned the flue with the boiler, lined up the flue,but did nor fit.
The engineer 1) fitted the water pipes to the boiler
2) fitted the flue to the boiler
3) Brought gas pipe into the house and connected to boiler, teed off for gas cooker point
4) Uncapped the gas supply at the meter(new installation)
5.) Commissioned and brought the boiler into use i.e the dictionary records "commission" to mean " state of being in good working order and ready for operation"; e.g"put the ships into commission";
I now know from posts here that by bolting the boiler to the wall and coreing the wall i may have ventured into what is technically gas work.
I have not claimed that the engineer fitted the boiler or that I have a certificate to this effect.
Dissappointingly, no one who has responded to my original post has directly answered my query about whether if as the manufacturer claims a pressure drop of 0.25 ar over 10hours in boiler isolated from the central heating side is to be expected due to small temperature changes. Do you have any views on this?, if yes please let me have them. ,
I know that there may be leaks in the system pipework, i have already said this, but before I start lifting floorboards all over the house would like to know if there is indeed a problem with the boiler, which might be fully or partially resonsible for the pressure loss.