In article ,
Roland Perry wrote:
The costs of doing thorough checks on all wiring and appliances on a
frequent enough basis to be of use would surely be horrendous? And if a
dodgy appliance is found, what do you do about it? Stick a 'do not use'
label on it? Or replace it with a new one? At whose cost? Even if say a
dodgy appliance was found and removed, what's to prevent the tenant or
whatever simply buying a used untested one? Or even a new one which
isn't well designed?

All of these issues are not insurmountable when it comes to gas
appliances.

Think most of us have many many more times the number of electrical
appliances than gas ones.

And a gas appliance is easier to test anyway. It is simply not practical
to examine a TV etc to see if it may burst into flames in the future.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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