On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:50:12 +0000, Peter Taylor wrote:

Will Dean wrote


As I said, I think we should feel some sympathy towards LA Building Control
departments at present. There are many impracticalities with the current system
and often too much pressure for under-staffed departments to cope with, which
I'm sure the eggheads at ODPM didn't foresee, and I wouldn't mind betting we'll
see them giving the system another major shake-up before too long. In my view
this should include making CORGI and FENSA etc legally responsible for making
good any defective or non-compliant work wrongly certified by their
members.

They'd have to get the fitters to fill in the forms first!
The vast majority of replacment boilers I see don't have the log book
filled in. However I'm probably seeing a skewed situation since I would
probably only get called in to sort out a problem thus I see the worse end
of the installations, with faults and no paperwork.


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