Happy Monday posters! 😊
It's great to see conversation around such an important topic - boilers!
Any work to your boiler NEEDS to be completed by a gas-safe engineer and the consequences of not doing this can be distraught.
Back to it 😊 @
Gwyndy I'm glad you've got it sorted! I actually have the EPH CP4 system at home. It must of heard us chatting, because the heating didn't come on this morning when it was supposed to 🤣
You are contributing to the misinformation:
paragraph 83 of the guidance reads as follows
83 Anyone who does work on a gas fitting or gas storage vessel must be competent to do so (whether or not they are required to be a member of an approved class of persons). Therefore, do-it-yourself gas engineers and those performing favours for friends and relatives all need to have the required competence. The level and range of competence should match the full extent of work done,"
So its relevant here to particularly note "does work on a Gas fitting" and the competence required " Anyone who does work on a gas fitting or gas storage vessel must be
competent to do so (whether or not they are required to be a member of an approved class of persons). Therefore, do-it-yourself gas engineers and those performing favours for friends and relatives all need to have the required
competence. The level and range of competence should match the full extent of work done,
but needs only to be sufficient for and relevant to that work.
And electrical work to control systems isn't covered here. While there is the law, there is also common sense. Don't interfere with things you know nothing about. And limit risks by employing qualified tradesperson if you don't have the required competences.
Obviously a gas explosion at a domestic premises fairly automatically implies that work has been done by a non competent person, except if other factors have caused damage to the gas services.
