On 10/11/2019 18:43, Terry Casey wrote:
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Willy die wrote on 10/11/2019 :
Working on gas boilers and gas appliances is not DIY... Taking off the case
to
an appliance means you have to undertake statutory checks to ensure the
appliance works correctly and safely.

What like the British Gas engineer who installed a water heater for my
parents, where he left the supply pipe spewing out gas into there home
due to his total incompetence?

When my daughter moved into her new flat and had the gas
inspection she was told that the hob had a flexible connection
whiich is a fail.

That assumes that the the manufacturer has not stated that a flexible
hose is suitable - in which case it *IS* acceptable.

However, the previous inspectors had passed it every year for
the past 10 years?

So, who were these cowboys? British Gas, of course!

My parents had their fire in the living room and the boiler isolated and
condemned as not conforming to requirements. Funnily enough, it was
rapidly reversed and the prohibitions removed, when they pointed out
that they had installed it 20 years earlier and as a self-installed
system, the gas board had inspected and tested it at the time and signed
of on it!

The only reason anyone was looking was that reported a gas leak, which
the gas board could not find and denied the existence of, despite
multiple visits. We found it ourselves, with soap and water ... in their
connection between the regulator and the meter!

SteveW