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I was working on a refurb on an Indian restaurant, I had been working on it (3 b'rooms, kitchen/bar plumbing and waste etc.) various times over a 1 month period. I was out on my last trip to finish commisioning and do a final check, when I noticed that the gas man had been in before me as the cookers were fired. I took a look and followed the 28mm gas pipe across the ceiling and behind the steel sinks (there was a gas steamer to supply), and to my surprise he had cable tied his GAS pipe to my cold and the pipe was running along about 6-8" off the wall, not only that but it ran for about 3-4m along the wall (at 2 points touching the stainless steel legs) with no clips, just 3 cable ties!! I also noticed that there was no extraction above the gas steamer, is this dangerous? I looked at the other work behind the gas hobs, and he had another 28mm header running along the wall with 22mm branches straight into lugged elbows that all had just 1 screw in the top (the angle the lugged elbow was meeting the wall at was so bad that the top was the only bit that touched the wall)!! I don't know, or have never met this chap but surely he should not be putting in gas pipework??!! I take pride in my work and don't want anyone to think that its my handy work as well!
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Id made my mind up when i read 'Indian restaurant' but the answer was clear to me when I read 'cable ties'. I'm voting 'no' in the GSR engineer debate.
 
i'm not gsr so i cannot comment on the legality or not of the installation but that don't look good to me.
 
i'm not gsr so i cannot comment on the legality or not of the installation but that don't look good to me.
Thats the common sense in yourself that knows its not proper.
Nice wet plumbing though
 
zip ties?????????????????????????? supporting a gas pipe????????????????????oh and dont use my name in vain LOL,that was no gas engineer who fitted that,that is a fatality waiting to happen
 
get it reported to gas safe another dodgy indian doing DIY gas work i bet
 
A long time ago 1 of the local Indians asked me to fit a bit of 22mm gas pipe with lever valve and bash the end a bit to restrict what came out they could light what was in the pipe something to do with cooking can't understand what , but I didn't hang about , probaly done it themselves
 
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