On Aug 6, 11:33*am, "Gareth Magennis"
wrote:
In the UK it is illegal to tamper with gas appliances unless you are
qualified to do
so.http://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/pdf...y%20work%20on%...

At least on my old gas stove, I can replace burners and the ducts
leading from the control knobs to the burners. Hooking up appliances
to existing gas valves is well within every homeowner's skill set,
although the utility would like to check your work.

Here's what can happen if you don't do it properly and nobody has checked
your work:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...plosion-gas-94...

Good point, but I have a couple of reservations:

Service and repair requires a much higher skill level than merely
hooking something up.

The story includes far too much of the neighbor's rocky relationship
with his girlfriend, including jail time, for the boiler repair to be
completely unrelated.


The shop sent a fitter today to inspect the cooker - he didn't at first
believe what I was trying to tell him, and was trying to tell me how to
operate a gas oven, but got it in the end.

He had no test equipment with him, *but did manage to blow a load of crud
out of the flexible supply tube into his eye.

Sediment in natural gas is not uncommon in the US. Appliances should
contain a debris trap for the sediment to fall into. Failing that, the
pipe installer should add one in front of the valve.

This made no difference to the performance of the oven, or his eye,
thankfully, and he eventually agreed the appliance is faulty, and I shall be
getting another one.

Good. I hate to pay good money for something that doesn't work 100%.


So, none the wiser, really, as on questioning I soon realised he wasn't
going to be able to diagnose any further than "it's broke, mate".

Is he one of those elite "Gas Safe" fitters?