acs re-assessment

[roborobo]

hi could any one tell me if you actually need your appliances.ie cookers,water heaters, fires, if all you ever do is de-commission them and blank off the supply. iknow you would if you was re-istalling anything.

 

[Puddle]

No, you do not, as all you are doing is working on the pipework and capping it off,so core will do,however you must disconnect and cap pipework/supply before you do any thing with appliance, you are not covered for ,ie you can not remove appliance and then cap off,as then you are working on a appliance still classed as live and you would require ticket for it

 

[roborobo]

hi puddle thanks for that.

just wanted to be sure! at the moment ive got water heaters,cookers, and central heating,but in the last five years never intalled either a cooker or multipoint, only decommissioned + capped. but for the next 12 months we are doing combi convversions removing bbu`s capping and theyre having electric fires.
but the assessment people are trying to blag me into having them all .but theyre not the ones having to find the money!. also puddle do you know if i deffinately have to take the new cpa1 flue analasys even though i dont do servicing ..

cheers for your help .archy.

 

[fuzzy]

hi puddle thanks for that.

just wanted to be sure! at the moment ive got water heaters,cookers, and central heating,but in the last five years never intalled either a cooker or multipoint, only decommissioned + capped. but for the next 12 months we are doing combi convversions removing bbu`s capping and theyre having electric fires.
but the assessment people are trying to blag me into having them all .but theyre not the ones having to find the money!. also puddle do you know if i deffinately have to take the new cpa1 flue analasys even though i dont do servicing ..

cheers for your help .archy.

YES - If you want to work on fires or boilers you must do CPA-1
your previous appliances should be part of any reassesment regardless, so no extra cost

 

[roborobo]

hi fuzzy
im trying to drop two of my current appliances ,because of the cost.
im quoted
re-assessment. core gas safety-£350.00
core gas safety+1 app=£475.00
core gas safety+2app £575.00
core gas safety+3app £650.00
core gas safety+4app £690.00

cheers.

 

[kirkgas]

hi fuzzy
im trying to drop two of my current appliances ,because of the cost.
im quoted
re-assessment. core gas safety-£350.00
core gas safety+1 app=£475.00
core gas safety+2app £575.00
core gas safety+3app £650.00
core gas safety+4app £690.00

are these prices for training & assessment and plus VAT
we do CCN1 + CPA1 + any 3 appliances, training & assessment for £900 inc VAT

 

[fuzzy]

hi fuzzy
im trying to drop two of my current appliances ,because of the cost.
im quoted
re-assessment. core gas safety-£350.00
core gas safety+1 app=£475.00
core gas safety+2app £575.00
core gas safety+3app £650.00
core gas safety+4app £690.00

cheers.

I paid 720quid for renewall of all appliances plus CPA1. It didnt matter if you had 1 or 5 elements the cost was the same.

4 days training and full assessment

 

[Puddle]

Well with all due respect the figures above spread over five years are very minimal and the savings made by dropping a few cores is really neither here or there,it will probably cause more problems than enough by restricting your work scope and if you do not do a core ,say water heaters and a year from now someone wants a thermocouple replaced on one, are you going to risk the customer calling another gas fitter,who may take more of your other work or risk a problem with your registration for a couple of hundred quid saving on the exta cords,I am sure you could make savings in other areas
If you are doing system conversions for combis,you should be able to cover costs no problem
Things may be tight but get the priorities right,you need the tools to do the jobs,to enable you to increase your income and the cores are part of your tool kit
just some thoughts