I've just arranged for a multi-fuel stove to be replaced at my mum's house. It's been a really awful experience, the company were great in terms of the stove installation but really felt like they took the p**s re: cancelling multiple times and constantly rising estimate and the company employing plumbers who left without getting the heating working again but anyway I digress and my query is this...
Getting a HETAS certificate was always part of the job and is on our receipt - and we got told that this would be provided once we paid. They left, we paid and nothing happened so assumed it maybe would be in the post - we contacted the company and they said the plumber should have given us a certificate but they would provide it in a few weeks' time. This seemed really odd as the stove company were the ones whose job it was, the plumbers were a local firm who they'd got out to connect the stove. I got in touch with HETAS to make sure everything was above board and they said that the installers should have notified HETAS within 10 days of completion of the works and, looking at our address and the company, this has not been done. They suggested we fill in their formal complaint form and contact Citizen's Advice.
Does anyone know - if HETAS haven't been notified, does that mean the work can't be certified, i.e. the stove fitter can't give us a certificate now? Is the only option now to report them to HETAS or can we work it out with the company still? Any ideas?
Getting a HETAS certificate was always part of the job and is on our receipt - and we got told that this would be provided once we paid. They left, we paid and nothing happened so assumed it maybe would be in the post - we contacted the company and they said the plumber should have given us a certificate but they would provide it in a few weeks' time. This seemed really odd as the stove company were the ones whose job it was, the plumbers were a local firm who they'd got out to connect the stove. I got in touch with HETAS to make sure everything was above board and they said that the installers should have notified HETAS within 10 days of completion of the works and, looking at our address and the company, this has not been done. They suggested we fill in their formal complaint form and contact Citizen's Advice.
Does anyone know - if HETAS haven't been notified, does that mean the work can't be certified, i.e. the stove fitter can't give us a certificate now? Is the only option now to report them to HETAS or can we work it out with the company still? Any ideas?
