Open Flue and Ventilation query

[Puddle]

and in these days of no win no fee, sue your backside off, it is only a matter of time before someone sues a gas guy for trying to save someone from themselves

There are to many variables here,no one is going to sue you,a good defense lawyer would have any prosecution running for the door
There is no win ,no fee,but if the lawyer knows he can not win,therefore not get paid (the insurance scam is over),he is not going to waste his time
You are going to have all the industry on your side and probably the judge

Every year the powers that be get stricter and stricter on open flued appliances,encouraging more and more for people to replace


You leave on and something happens,with or without a bit of paper ,you are in trouble because obviously something else was wrong,directly or indirectly,which is quite possible

ID ,AR,in other areas we would probably agree but on a open flued appliance if all the main boxes are not ticked,I ID
and all the main agents and main landlords I work for agree


imho

 

[kirkgas]

There are to many variables here,no one is going to sue you,a good defense lawyer would have any prosecution running for the door
There is no win ,no fee,but if the lawyer knows he can not win,therefore not get paid (the insurance scam is over),he is not going to waste his time
You are going to have all the industry on your side and probably the judge


i'm not sure how many from the industry would stand up in court to back an engineer who admitted breaking the regs by capping an AR without permission, out of court there would be sympathy but could you honestly agree that them breaking the regs that you stick by was the right decision, some might even go down the route of saying it was capped as a way of forcing more work/money, a dangerous place to be, why not turn off the AR and advise as per the law

Wtfs got into you tonight Kirkgas?, I dont know your daughter, Ive never ogled a girl from the comfrot of an employers sign written van, Ive got a big love bus with blacked out windows for that.

thats all right then

 

[Mbear]

very big of you to stop ogling my daughter now that you are a self employed grown up, i am so happy you only ogled her from the comfort of a sign written van that your employer paid for and hoped that the young lady would contact his firm to get some work done, now he realises why they didnt phone him before



this scenario is AR, and only from the point that there is a burn risk from the heat exchanger (assuming, i know we shouldnt, that the gas supply was properly capped) it cant be ID which is causing an immediated danger to life as a gas engineer has to run it like that while doing a service and safety checks on a BBU

well what I was put my ID down to was these factors

1. As you say, serious burn risk
2. Air flow is affected because the fire is missing, ie not the way that baxi intended
3. It's a parent and child appliance which share the same flue and as such should always be fitted together
4. Below 90% ventilation

I classified as ID for 1-3, ie if the vent was ok I would still have capped it. The vent being wrong just adds flames to the fire obviously