On 21/10/2013 11:52, Terry Fields wrote:
Martin Brown wrote:

There was one near me where the guy installed his own bottle gas fired
central heating system. It worked OK for a few weeks and then one
afternoon fortunately with no one at home at 4pm detonated the entire
house and left a blackened roofless shell by the time the fire brigade
arrived. The source of the blaze wasn't hard to figure out. Insurers
said "show us the gas installation certificate" - and then get lost.

Was the certificate requirement a part of the insurance contract?

Mine is silent on the subject.

You will only ever find out if you meddle with your own gas boiler and
the house subsequently explodes or poisons you with carbon monoxide.

The fundamentals were that the householder was held to be grossly
negligent and so the insurers refused to make any payment.

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Regards,
Martin Brown