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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:58 pm Post Subject:
Gas cooker installation
I am buying a new gas cooker. I already have a cooker connected by a bayonet fitting. Am I allowed to connect the new cooker to this myself or do I have to get a corgi registered installer to do it? I know it is a simple job but I want it to be legal.
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:13 pm Post Subject:
Hi
I'm pretty sure you need a corgi registered person to do it. The problem with doing it yourself is that you might need to get it certified if you are ever selling up.
Al
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 5481 Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom Thanked: 18 times
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:27 pm Post Subject:
If you aren't competent get someone corgi registered, because they will need to attach a hose to the cooker, ensure that the bayonet is suitable such that the hose doesn't hang over a portion of the oven which gets too hot, ensure the oven is secured against falling over forwards, level, correct distances from combustibles, adequate ventilation / door/ window/ extractor (of suitable throughput) depending on cubic volume of room, check installation pipework, meter, any other gas appliances.
On top of which you do now need a certyificate from local authority which may cost you £100 but corgi installer can arrange for £5 or so depending upon local practice.
Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 119 Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom Thanked: 0 times
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 8:26 pm Post Subject:
joe-90 wrote:
As far as I'm aware from posts on this forum you are allowed to do your own gas work on your own property. Who cares anyway, just do it.
joe
absolute **** i`m afraid, the gas regs specifically say only a class of person as recognized by the HSE can do any work in relation to a gas fitting. and at this moment that means corgi registered. If it all goes bang and the next door neighbours house comes down , who they gonna call.
You.
Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 24304 Location: London, United Kingdom Thanked: 191 times
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:01 pm Post Subject:
Being realistic, if the new cooker were to have a bayonet hose then it can be considered a user function to connect the bayonet plug and socket together.
However fitting a new gas hose to a new cooker is certainly a CORGI engineer function as is testing the installation for gas leaks and commissioning the cooker, which includes testing the safety functions.
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 200 Location: West Lothian, United Kingdom Thanked: 0 times
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:10 pm Post Subject:
kevplumb wrote:
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absolute **** i`m afraid, the gas regs specifically say only a class of person as recognized by the HSE can do any work in relation to a gas fitting.
not if you are not working for gain
still got to be competant m8 !! pierrot is right here !!!
not working for gain is one of us fitting for a friend and not charging if were not registered as individuals and working for ourselves outwith our companies...
Joined: 25 Aug 2003 Posts: 9195 Location: Surrey, United Kingdom Thanked: 2 times
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:13 pm Post Subject:
yes I agree competent
But I can find nothing to say you can do what you like to what you like as long as you dont get paid???
I have always felt this was a bit of an urban myth anyway. If you do something and your incompetence results in damage to persons and/or property you are for the clink anyhoo, CORGI or no.
I thought the new regs made this point very very very clear, do something that you shouldnt and its irrelevent whether you did it for graft or no
I could be wrong (keep it to yourselves but it has been known )
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:08 am Post Subject:
[quote="corgiman"]yes I agree competent
But I can find nothing to say you can do what you like to what you like as long as you dont get paid???
I have always felt this was a bit of an urban myth anyway. If you do something and your incompetence results in damage to persons and/or property you are for the clink anyhoo, CORGI or no.
I thought the new regs made this point very very very clear, do something that you shouldnt and its irrelevent whether you did it for graft or no
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Yes, AFAIK there's nothing preventing anyone working on their own system (myself for example) as long as they are competent. It's been done to death
As someone who sees CORGIs from the other side, there are a lot who give you a bad name, incompetents who I wouldn't let through my front door
Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 18661 Location: London, United Kingdom Thanked: 62 times
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:39 am Post Subject:
"Employed" is the word. If you are employed to do something gas you must be corgi. "Employ" of course, has more than one meaning. If you use someone without paying them, what then??
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 5481 Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom Thanked: 18 times
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:09 am Post Subject:
The main point is if you aren't trained as we are there are a minefiled of mistakes you could make, though nobody is policing you, should you blow up yourself, we won't mind for you but we wouldn't want your loved ones or neighbours to go up with you, and when your beneficiaries try to make something of the mess the insurance company will turn their back on them.
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