Recent content by brokenspanner

This is getting more heated than my C/H. I pointed out that I was a qualified engineer to agree that not all DIYers are by definition moronic. As regards my insurance company I don't think they'd give a Damn if I flood the place as I haven't got flood insurance, but hey might take exception if...

Granted a Haines Manual and a box of spanners doesn't make you competent, and having once received 750 volts due to an error by a major motor manufacturer's senior electrical engineer, I think I can claim to have suffered as much as the next engineer, and a qualified engineer I am, but again...

Hi nicso. I don't intend doing anything yet. As a pensioner I cannot afford to pay to have the full job done for me, but as I live in timber house, I don't mean timber framed, I mean all timber, and wish to maintain my insurance cover I wish to know where I can tread and and where I can't...

Thanks Doitall, But to qualify further. In your opinion can I hang the boiler and connect the various WATER pipes myself? The annoying thing from my point of view is that I have installed heating in the past and worked on gas installations for major companies before CORGI came in so I believe...

Which raises the subject of competance. As I read the regs if you're not being paid you do not need to be CORGI registered, only competant. My complaint is that the regs seem more to be designed to confuse than inform. (Well John prescot was in charge!) This sort of legislation is what keeps...

Help! I've had more answers locally than hot dinners. Can I legally install my own LPG C/H provided that the commissioning is carried out by a Corgi installer? I'm beginning to look more grey than my age dictates with this one. Thanks in advance.