Is this gas restrictor elbow fitted correctly?

[Km1234]

Hello
The gas restrictor elbow in the picture was fitted by a gas safe engineer. The gas fire is on the left and the supply is on the right. Has this been fitted correctly?
Thanks

 

[ShaunCorbs]

No

 

[Harvest Fields]

Looks like it’s been there a while.

 

[Km1234]

Many thanks for your replies. The elbow is new and was fitted a few weeks ago to the supply pipe which is old. The previous original elbow was fitted differently (the inner and outer screws pointed towards the gas supply pipe). However, for the new replacement elbow, the inner and outer screws point towards the gas fire. Should we ask the gas safe engineer to refit it and what reason should we give? Or is it OK to leave it as it is?

 

[Gasmk1]

I am with harvest fields on this, but at the moment it won't shut of properly as intended

 

[Last Plumber]

It is installed the wrong way round from a design & use point of view and will not shut the gas off as intended (in other words, it is fairly pointless).
That alone is enough reason to have it correctly installed. As it is it will probably isolate the fire but not without allowing a large amount of gas to escape whilst closing it down and replacing the top outer cap & washer in your case, to stop gas escaping. You would really need to turn the gas off (at the meter most likely) to be able to isolate the fire safely.

I suspect they put it in that way round because of its dimensions but they would have been better to alter the pipework. They could use a male iron to copper into the malleable elbow and copper to an angled gas isolation valve or an elbow and a straight valve.

Hope this helps!

 

[Km1234]

It is installed the wrong way round from a design & use point of view and will not shut the gas off as intended (in other words, it is fairly pointless).
That alone is enough reason to have it correctly installed. As it is it will probably isolate the fire but not without allowing a large amount of gas to escape whilst closing it down and replacing the top outer cap & washer in your case, to stop gas escaping. You would really need to turn the gas off (at the meter most likely) to be able to isolate the fire safely.

I suspect they put it in that way round because of its dimensions but they would have been better to alter the pipework. They could use a male iron to copper into the malleable elbow and copper to an angled gas isolation valve or an elbow and a straight valve.

Hope this helps!

Thank you very much for your reply which is very helpful.