cpa1

[radswilldo]

Hope this is the right section to post in. Can anyone tell me when it will become a legal requirement to us flue analyser's when commisioning, testing and inspecting. Spoke to corgi rep in 07 and 08 about purchasing a flue analyser and taking cpa1, he said there was no immediate need. Yet I was looking at acs centres recently and one stated that it is a legal requirement for all engineers by the end of 2009. Sorry if this has already been posted. I try to read gas ininstaller when I have the time, have come across nothing. If 2009 is the requirement year will have to get finance sorted quickly, also if any of you could recommend flue gas analyser, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[jonathanb]

Did mine as though better do it anyway! Was quite informative and learnt a few things I didn't know so worth while - best to get it so if, God forbid, any legal situatuions come up you got a bit of back up in my opinion. Give Gas safe tech a ring and see if compulsary and let us know the outcome!

 

[radswilldo]

Will do and let you all know next week, thanks

 

[oldplumber]

As far as I understand, if the manufacturer starts telling you to use a flue analyser for commisioning etc you have to do so. At present I know of plenty of people relying on gas rates etc still to commission boilers etc. If you do use an analyser then the gas safe inspector will want to see a calibration ticket that is in date.

I'm happy to use a simple kane 250 analyser, it simply does what it says ie gives you co/o2/co2 readouts . It does not do differential pressures/ tightness testing etc, for that i use a £20 manometer that does not need calibrating annually. Better still when it breaks I still have a manometer in the bag that works and dont lose everything in one go.

Only my opinion, hope it helps. ps I picked up my kane for £50 2nd hand at 3 years old, spent £155 having the sensors serviced/calibrated and saved over £200-300 on a new version and its warrantied for 12 months. I gather an all singing anton is £750.

 

[radswilldo]

Have spoken to gas safe, no legal requirement yet. Though, by next year will expect nearly all manufacturer's to want carbon monoxide reading as part of commissioning. Will do the course and buy the kit sept-oct. It will end up costing 900-1000 all in, lovely.