DIY GAS disasters waiting to happen.

Discussion in 'Plumbers' Talk' started by Easy Life, Mar 19, 2004.

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  1. The Dormouse

    The Dormouse New Member

    Over 4 years & we're still waiting.
     
    The Dormouse, Aug 13, 2008
    #801
  2. Ryluer

    Ryluer Well-Known Member

    DIY GAS IS LEGAL.

    Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......
    ................:)
     
    Ryluer, Sep 30, 2008
    #802
  3. Easy Life

    Easy Life Member

    DIY Gas is legal when carried out by a compedent person as per L56.

    Jacen
     
    Easy Life, Nov 22, 2008
    #803
  4. R Slicker

    R Slicker New Member

    30,720 people killed or seriously injured on uk roads in 2007. Between 20 30 people die each year from carbon monoxide due to poorly fitted gas appliances. (HSE statistics).Should we all be driven around by highly trained taxi drivers.
     
    R Slicker, Nov 22, 2008
    #804
  5. Ryluer

    Ryluer Well-Known Member

    DIY Gas is legal when carried out by a compedent person as per L56.

    Wrong.
    Theres no such stipulation that a diyer has to be competent as per L56.
    If there was then I couldn't install my own boiler.
     
    Ryluer, Nov 22, 2008
    #805
  6. Dyke Pullover

    Dyke Pullover New Member

    *** this must be the longest thread in history and it ain't been deleted has DP not contributed to this topic?
     
    Dyke Pullover, Nov 22, 2008
    #806
  7. R Slicker

    R Slicker New Member

    No its not
     
    R Slicker, Nov 22, 2008
    #807
  8. Easy Life

    Easy Life Member

    Ryluer

    L56 Regulation 3 (1) States that :- No person shall carry out any work in relation to a gas fitting or gas storage vessel unless he is competent to do so.

    That includes diy work.

    If you install your own boiler as you said, how do you notify the boiler & get the certificate etc ? or do you get a compedent RGI to check it over for you & do the paperwork?

    Jacen
     
    Easy Life, Nov 22, 2008
    #808
  9. Ryluer

    Ryluer Well-Known Member

    That only relates to operatives who are rewarded for the work.
    A diyer clearly is not rewarded. The paper work is not needed.
     
    Ryluer, Nov 23, 2008
    #809
  10. Easy Life

    Easy Life Member

    Ryluer

    If you install your own boiler as you said, how do you notify the boiler & get the certificate etc ? or do you get a compedent RGI to check it over for you & do the paperwork?

    ---------- L56 States

    Regulation 2 (2) states that "work" in relation to a gas fitting includes any of the following activities carried out by any person, whether an employee or not, that is to say-

    (a) installing or re-connecting the fittings:
    (b) maintaining, serviceing, permanently adjusting, disconnecting, repairing, altering or renewing the fitting or purging it of air or gas:
    (c) where the fitting is not readily movable, changing its position:
    (d) removing the fitting

    But the expression does not include the connection or disconnection of a bayonet fitting or other self-sealing connector.

    For the purposes of these regulations, "work" includes do-it-yourself activities, work undertaken as a favour for friend and relatives, and work for which there is no expectation of reward or gain, eg voluntary activity for charities. This means that anyone carrying our such work must have the necesssary compedence, as required by regulation 3(1). However, membership of an HSE approved class of persons (under regulation 3(3)) is required only by businessses carrying out gas fitting work.

    Jacen
     
    Easy Life, Nov 23, 2008
    #810
  11. <a b hree[ i]thread[ i] 

    <a b hree[ i]thread[ i]  New Member

    Easy life

    This has been done to death, you've been floating around here since nov 2003 and you still don't get it, read all the 54 pages on this thread, and the others,


    let me explain.
     
    <a b hree[ i]thread[ i] , Nov 23, 2008
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  12. Easy Life

    Easy Life Member

    SpaceBar

    I have quoted the Gas Regs, so if i understand you correctly your saying the Gas regs are wrong.

    your understanding is that - to do DIY Gas work you do not need to be compedent?

    Jacen
     
    Easy Life, Nov 23, 2008
    #812
  13. <a b hree[ i]thread[ i] 

    <a b hree[ i]thread[ i]  New Member

    <u>The HSE are the law in the UK.</u>

    <u>They allow DIY gaswork if you are competent</u>
     
    <a b hree[ i]thread[ i] , Nov 23, 2008
    #813
  14. Easy Life

    Easy Life Member

    Easy Life, Nov 23, 2008
    #814
  15. G Brown

    G Brown New Member

    Easy life? Get a Life!

    Now Get Lost.

    You are boring and vain.

    Dragging up your old post again and again.
     
    G Brown, Nov 23, 2008
    #815
  16. R Slicker

    R Slicker New Member

    Has anyone ever reported dodgy gas fitting and if so to whom and what was the outcome? If people are concerned about safety they should have no qualms about reporting a household for dangerous diy fitting. How would you feel if you saw dangerous work didnt do anything and a week later a family is killed in a gas explosion.
     
    R Slicker, Nov 23, 2008
    #816
  17. Captain Leaky

    Captain Leaky New Member

    Go take a hike you boring idiot and stop dragging up this tedious old subject!
     
    Captain Leaky, Nov 23, 2008
    #817
  18. R Slicker

    R Slicker New Member

    can't understand why people would bother to return to a topic when they find it boring and tedious?
     
    R Slicker, Nov 23, 2008
    #818
  19. Stoday

    Stoday New Member

    To be a corgi you have to demonstrate your competence. That does not mean that you have to do so to comply with the law.

    The law requires you to BE competent. It does NOT require proof (after all, that goes with being a corgi). A DIYer does not have to prove he's competent. But if he's not, then he is not complying with the law and is subject to the appropriate penalty.

    I don't think "DIYer" includes a landlord because he's being paid for the work, via the rent. He would therefore have to be corgi registered. In practice he only gets found out if things go wrong. Then he must be incompetent and can get done anyway.
     
    Stoday, Nov 25, 2008
    #819
  20. mantor

    mantor New Member

    Corr, this thread isn't half long isn't it?





    hehehe
     
    mantor, Jul 6, 2009
    #820
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