Is this dangerous?

[dcawkwell]

Hi all, a neighbour asked me to have a look at her boiler (Baxi Solo conventional boiler, about 15 years old) because it was smelling funny and not working. The pilot light thermocouple was pushed in the hole, but the retaining nut was half way down the pipe. The spade connectors on the gas valve where the thermostat should be connected (and the over temperature thermocouple?) were just linked together. I switched the boiler off at the mains and told her to get a gas safe engineer in because I considered that these were unsafe and the whole boiler should be checked.

Since then she has had a relative round who has managed to relight the pilot light and is using the boiler.

Should I keep hassling her to get it checked properly, or am I just being paranoid?

Thanks, Brian.

You can't help some people. It's called natural selection. They will
learn but it will be too late.

 

[Charnwood]

The Darwin Awards are for people like that.

 

[FiremanT]

Well said Brig. Didn't realise you were in here, I don't get out of the combustion chamber much these days!

Thread is over 2 years old.

Too be fair, Paul did say he deosn't get out much!

 

[brig001]

Thread is over 2 years old.

The topic of people not trusting tradesmen came up on another forum, and I posted a link to this so that Paul could have another example. I haven't nagged the neighbour for a while now - maybe I should ask if she ever got it sorted. I still find it amazing that the fear of being ripped off was greater than the fear of carbon monoxide poisoning.

As Charnwood says: The Darwin Awards are for people like that.

Brian.