Just had a GasSafe chap around to do the safety certificate on a property we are preparing to rent out. Boiler passed with flying colours apparently, certificate was issued, but he wasn't happy about a few other things.
1) He gave me a bright red postcard with 'the electrical installation.. may not meet current standards' on it. This is because there was no main bonding, and he is correct, it is something that I will be correcting prior to the house being rented out, but pressure of time means he got to do his certificate first.
But on the back of the certificate it said, amongst others...
'In particular, those installations with PME (Protective Multiple Earth) must, by law, be earth bonded'.
I am unfamiliar with the 'gas laws' and was wondering where does it say this, as I am unaware of any such law.
2) He was unhappy that the pipe coming through the solid wall to the boiler was unsleeved, and put a note on the certificate to this effect. Now, as I already said, I am not familiar with the 'gas laws' but I can read and so I checked the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 and there is no such requirement. There was such a requirement in the 1994 SI (Enclosed Pipes, Sec 19 (2) (b) ) but this was removed for the 1998 edition. Now it just says that "adequate means are provided to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, any escape of gas from the pipework passing through the wall,"
So what is the basis of him specifically stating there is a need for a sleeve and putting this on the gas safety certificate? This specific requirement was removed, and so the reasonable assumption is that the requirement for a sleeve is considered unneccessary.
The reason I ask these questions is that the tenant gets to see the certificate, and it appears to me that this is alarmist.
Cheers
1) He gave me a bright red postcard with 'the electrical installation.. may not meet current standards' on it. This is because there was no main bonding, and he is correct, it is something that I will be correcting prior to the house being rented out, but pressure of time means he got to do his certificate first.
But on the back of the certificate it said, amongst others...
'In particular, those installations with PME (Protective Multiple Earth) must, by law, be earth bonded'.
I am unfamiliar with the 'gas laws' and was wondering where does it say this, as I am unaware of any such law.
2) He was unhappy that the pipe coming through the solid wall to the boiler was unsleeved, and put a note on the certificate to this effect. Now, as I already said, I am not familiar with the 'gas laws' but I can read and so I checked the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 and there is no such requirement. There was such a requirement in the 1994 SI (Enclosed Pipes, Sec 19 (2) (b) ) but this was removed for the 1998 edition. Now it just says that "adequate means are provided to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, any escape of gas from the pipework passing through the wall,"
So what is the basis of him specifically stating there is a need for a sleeve and putting this on the gas safety certificate? This specific requirement was removed, and so the reasonable assumption is that the requirement for a sleeve is considered unneccessary.
The reason I ask these questions is that the tenant gets to see the certificate, and it appears to me that this is alarmist.
Cheers