On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:16:43 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

You don't need to be CORGI registered for *any* DIY in your home.
Including gas work.

But, just to go over it again, you *do* have to be 'competent' (in the
words, undefined, of the Gas Safety Installation & Use Regulations).

Where one draws the line wrt non-DIY work seems to be a matter of
interpretion. IIRC in a recent article CORGI were trying to claim that
*all* connections to a boiler were the domain of registered installers.
Certainly all gas pipework and flueing is 'gas work' and there's a good
argument that hanging a boiler is too, but equally if an installer isn't
qualified to do electrics then a non-CORGI sparks may reasonably be
expected to be allowed to make electrical connections to it and do
cross-bonding if needed. Who does CH, hot and cold water and condensate
pipework then has the making of a '70s-style who-does-what dispute :-)


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