On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:38:11 +0100, John wrote:

Sorry to start a new thread but I know that some news servers only have
a few days retention (mate of mine reckons it's gone from his) and also
this group is so busy that my original thread is now way down the list.

Anyway, you'll remember that the house was completely refurbished just
two years ago, including a complete new central heating system and two
new gas fires, done by a CORGI guy, and the same guy did the Landlords
Gas Safety Certificate check and inspection for us last year.

Couldn't get hold of him this year so a new CORGI (recommended by the
tenant) did the Safety Cert. and had to condemn the two fires. Both
needed flue liners installing, chimney stack needed half rebuilding,
water pipes from old back boiler had been cut off but not sealed so flue
gases could escape - but worst of all, one flue was blocked by a wooden
board and a builders bucket.

Some of you thought it sounded dodgy but I can confirm that the dates of
the jpeg photo files are the dates when he was at our house and yes, it
definitely *is* our house in the photos. You can see some of them he
http://www.thehewitts.eu/gas.html

John

Well at first sight it would seem that the first fitter must have been
really blind to have missed that sort of blockage in the flue.

Surely he would have checked the flue had been swept prior to installing
a new gas fire? That should have trivially found a bucket. What's more
why would he have even thought of bring the CORGI inspector anyway near
any installation that is not 100% perfect??


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