Plumber who did not fit boiler flue correctly found guilty slaughter

[southcoastboile]

I think there should be alot more responsability put on the manufacturers to produce safe products, we all find time and time again badly designed appliances. One example was a warm air unit I came across today, once fitted there is no way to test the burner connection I made, tightness test would only test up to solanoid and couldn't see connection once burner was on, let alone spray with LDF, same for the pilot tube comming out of the gas valve. This tube could have been designed to come out of the gas valve in a different place so you can check for leaks. This is just one of a number of examples I have come across. If one of these connections was leaking and caused an explosion I would be at fault.

A more well known case was of the engineer that did a bp but not a gas rate on a lfe fire, had the wrong injector fitted to it so it produced carbon monoxide, he got away with it as he had tested wp/bp but he had to go to court. Why wasn't the manufacturer held to acount?
As always everything seems to be down to us!

 

[gassafe]

The chap was fitting a new boiler i thought, why would he have made any attempt to by-pass the aps? I dont believe it.

I read an article in "the sun", the headline was something like "rogue plumber found guilty", abit harsh considering he had been doing the job for 20 years and this was his first mistake, if thats the right word...?

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

kirk would probably have done something similar,my 2 tutors who i go back two every few years on re sits are both ex bg and tell me once upon a time they would look at pre launch boilers to see if they were easy to work,well designed on etc and manufacturers would alter the design doubt this happens now