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An electrician can not open a boiler if its case forms part of the combustion seals. Ive lost count the number of cases ive seen not fitted back on correctly by electricians, maybe this needs addressing by the competent persons scheme's for sparkys. extract fans and open flues should be addressed aswell.
No sensible gas safe engineer would knowingly connect the gas and sign off a boiler fitted my a non competent person. Thoses that do are complete idiots and hopefully will get found out and removed from the gas safe register and more.
If your signing to say you have installed said appliance you are responsible for the screws holding the appliance on the wall and all other aspects of the installation. The only safe way to do this would be to uninstall the appliance and visually check the entire gas installation, i would charge more to do this than install the boiler in the first place.
All because you have seen "plumbers" fit boilers and an engineer sign them off does not make it correct, those companies that do this are breaking the law and doing the industry a dis-service.
Most of the boilers I ve come across domestic vallient ect there cases don t form part of the seal so in the main most spakys won t have to have a gse holding there hand while they take the case off.As for non gse fitting boilers in an ideal world everyone eould stick to the rules.the companys I know that operate like this have worked for the likes of taylor wimpey bovis and crest homes they are multi million pound firms that have done price work for over 30years for them.do you think they give a toss about the rules we don t live in a ideal world when cash is invovled.i know plenty of gas safe guys that are more than happy to sign off other "plumbers work" I personally see no harm in it at the end of the day who ever signs it off will take the responsibility for any outcome that happens.gas safe don t give dam all thry care about is screwing the people that give them there lively hood over.