On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:38:29 AM UTC+1, F Murtz wrote:
Onetap wrote:

On Monday, October 21, 2013 9:32:23 AM UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:

On 20/10/2013 19:56, Onetap wrote:



On Sunday, October 20, 2013 7:42:47 PM UTC+1, Jon Parker wrote:



Hello folks,















How much (if any) buggering about is one allowed to do to one's own gas boiler?







You must be competent to do the work.



Asking on a DIY forum would suggest that you're not.







This kind of answer tends to get on my tits a bit...







Even if we ignore the basic point that one of the ways we gain



competence to do anything is by asking sensible questions. The question



was not "am I competent". but "am I allowed"...



There's no point in having a paddy at me about it, I just told him what the law says, and for which you've kindly posted the relevant statutes.



Was I wrong?



The law only requires one to be competent.

So, the question is, is he competent if he has never done the job before?



Every single competant person started out not having done this job before.

I work on the principal that if someone else can do it I can.



A recent instance ,I am not a mechanic, I am not an air con technition,

but I just replaced the condensor in a 316i BMW including the vacuum and

then regas which is not for the faint hearted.

Just look at this mess.



https://www.dropbox.com/s/9clefzv645t4g8z/bmw%20007.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1aep9eima1qbp34/bmw%20055.jpg



It is all back together and working now, but working on your outlook on

DIY I should not have attempted it.

Nope.
I've just reported what the legal requirements are.
They are solely that you should be competent.

I've serviced my own gas appliances, I think the work was completed competently.
I don't have a flue gas analyser, I'm not CORGI.
I have a deeply ingrained distrust of those that are and, for that matter, of all car mechanics. IMHO there is a tradition of institutional dishonesty in both trades.