OK guys I'm a bit worried about something so some advice would be much appreciated.
My fiance and I bought our first house and we decided we'd like a gas cooker, however the previous owner had an electric cooker so we had to get a gas pipe plumbed in etc. Like I say it's our first house so in order to save alittle cash we got an experienced British Gas engineer to do it on the side. He led a pipe from the boiler on one side of the kitchen, underneath the floor and up the other side and when the oven came we got him back down in order to conect them up. Needless to say we didn't get a certificate for any of this. Now there is a problem with the digital clock on the oven and when we got the manufacturer's engineer to come out he pulled out the oven and said that as the bayonet is not directly behind the oven (it is actually coming from behind the kitchen unit directly next to it), and so unable to shut off quickly, this is against the company's regulations and he won't touch anything on it with a barge pole. All that and we only wanted him to change the digital clock!
Now the bit that has me worried is that if some jobsworth won't change a digital clock because the gas fittings aren't in line with his company's own specific regulations, what would happen if we experienced a major problem with the gas i.e. the house blew up? Seeing as we don't have a certificate for the oven install I'm guessing we'd be up the creek without a paddle in terms of an insurance claim. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of what I've done, is there any way of rectifying this? Bearing in mind the fact that only this week have we got the kitchen actually finished so there is no real chance of tearing up the flooring and starting all over again.
My fiance and I bought our first house and we decided we'd like a gas cooker, however the previous owner had an electric cooker so we had to get a gas pipe plumbed in etc. Like I say it's our first house so in order to save alittle cash we got an experienced British Gas engineer to do it on the side. He led a pipe from the boiler on one side of the kitchen, underneath the floor and up the other side and when the oven came we got him back down in order to conect them up. Needless to say we didn't get a certificate for any of this. Now there is a problem with the digital clock on the oven and when we got the manufacturer's engineer to come out he pulled out the oven and said that as the bayonet is not directly behind the oven (it is actually coming from behind the kitchen unit directly next to it), and so unable to shut off quickly, this is against the company's regulations and he won't touch anything on it with a barge pole. All that and we only wanted him to change the digital clock!
Now the bit that has me worried is that if some jobsworth won't change a digital clock because the gas fittings aren't in line with his company's own specific regulations, what would happen if we experienced a major problem with the gas i.e. the house blew up? Seeing as we don't have a certificate for the oven install I'm guessing we'd be up the creek without a paddle in terms of an insurance claim. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of what I've done, is there any way of rectifying this? Bearing in mind the fact that only this week have we got the kitchen actually finished so there is no real chance of tearing up the flooring and starting all over again.