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Hi everyone. What a great Monday morning! I was so cosy last night my living room temperature passed the magic 20 deg C! Last week after bugging the leasing agent to speed up the 2nd gas engineer I got a call from another 3rd engineer. He could do it on Sat. He came round, put down a cloth...

Update - the new gas engineer my landlady asked me to call two weeks ago is now not available.....so I am getting another new engineer round in the next week hopefully. I will watch him closely. He is coming to do a landlord's safety check. If the fire works fine when he does the spillage...

Good to know, thanks guys.

Yes I hate being the tenant kicking up a fuss. My landlady as I said before wants to send 'her own' engineer and a sweep. I called the engineer a week ago but have had no reply. I'm thinking I should just leave them to it and she can fork out the money to get these boys in when there is...

Thanks Chris. What I really meant was does the fire need servicing every year......or is a landlord safety record the one and only annual check the fire needs? Do you do both? Service and safety check?

Sorry guys another question. I've got last years safety record and it ask under "inspection details", "was the appliance serviced"? There is a big fat NO against it. So it was safety checked but not serviced in Sept 2020. I don't know if this RGI was employed to do a service or just a...

Just to keep you posted the 'boss' is coming round a week on Thursday and I think he is bringing the rookie with him. He is far too busy sorting out folk with no heating at the moment that I have to wait in the queue. Fair enough. A waiting game. Fingers crossed he will do the proper test.

I have looked them up before. He is qualified to work on Fires in his personal summary. He clearly has no experience of a Baxi Bermuda or BBU's. The company just called me. The boss cannot manage along until a week on Thursday and I have to take the morning off work to be there which is...

Bad news. I got a call from the leasing agent. She called the gas engineer's manager this morning. He has said he will come out and do a test but only if I'm prepared to pay myself for the callout if the outcome is the same. I am fuming. I think I will leave it until Tuesday when the...

Thanks again gasguru and everyone else. I have just sent an email to the manager of my leasing agent expressing my concerns. His colleague I sent it to last Thursday said she "couldn't possibly comment" as she wasn't a gas engineer. Of course I didn't know about the flue liner then but I do...

Ok Ian, is that a round one that would go right up to the top of the chimney?

Yes Ian that is very true. I thought he was a lovely guy but I think he will never want to talk to me again after next week. Not sure how his boss will take it when I say "I have a flue. Why have you employed a sweep?" I can't wait to hear his reply.

Thanks Ian, that is really helpful. I will mention this next week to the boss. I will possibly phone the sweep today and tell him that too and listen to his thoughts about it. Isn't it awful how they didn't even check? I just took a look under it as instructed by Gas112- why couldn't the...

Thanks guys for confirming. Let's hope the 'boss' comes round next week and does a proper smoke tube test....and there is no spillage, fingers crossed. I am really worried about it all the same. If he comes round and doesn't use the smoke tube and a match, just does the same as the young guy...

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Yes Ian, the landlord let the leasing agent organise the original gas guy for the yearly check...but now the landlord wants to use her own engineer and sweep. (This particular engineer told me he wasn't happy to touch a fire with a BBU - he is a young guy too). I would have no hesitation in...

Ta Ian. Shame I can do nowt about it until Tuesday when the company are back to work after the Oct holidays. I will keep you all posted though, I would really like to get my own engineer round to do a smoke test as the fire may be working just fine........but I had better wait until the...

Also ianmcd, the guy had never heard of a smoke tube. It even mentioned it on a plate at the side of the fire...and gives instructions what to do I think....but he ignored it completely and said he had no idea what a smoke tube was.

I'm in Aberdeen. These are the instructions below. My fire is a PW5 and I've been looking at Fig 6 on p7. I hope I haven't been talking complete nonsense guys.

My leasing agent replied. She said she was not a qualified engineer and could not possibly comment on my email. Instead she would forward it to the boss of the guy who did the test. I told her no way was she to send it to him. It wasn't very complimentary although I only re-iterated what was...