plumbing and gas work

[Keefy]

You see this old argument of "i wouldnt sign of someones work" is just not thought through and flawed. Il put it like this does everyone on here who services boilers, fires, does CP12's etc say to the customer ok love before i start id like to see the install gas cert and service report for every service carried out since? most people dont have the manual and those that do the benchmark has been filled in with invisible ink.

I look at it this way, if the jobs unsafe, boom £*** disconection fee and £*** to put it straight. Someone mentioned what about the pipesize, what if its wrong...hell if i have to run a gas carcas from the front of the house to the back where the kitchen is i charge a whack. I also know that once ive finnished it will be safe for the family who live there so its a win win. To say i wouldnt sign that of is realy biting your own nose of to spite your face because i tell you what someone else will do it and it might not be someone who knows what there doing.

But don't forget, for someone who's not gas registered - "It's easy!"

 

[REDSAW]

your not forgetting these people are employed under a companies 'insurance' and directives if anything should be wrong!!

same as rolls royce build trent engines. the guy fitting the spark plug isnt responsible for the plane going down!!

 

[acecharly]

As a GSR you have a duty of care so if you didnt go out to someone who had done the work themselves you would be as bad as the OP realy.

 

[Keefy]

You know what? I'm gonna stay out of GSR topics until I've retrained. These guys can be brutal - and rightly so.

 

[acecharly]

As i see it NPK its common sense over spitefulness, its one of the reasons people need to be registered to cut down the safety issues caused by numpty's. Saying that even GSR are not all angels. A mate of mine was checking an install about a year ago and when he got there the fitters manometer was sat connected to the testnipple on the meter it was monday and it had been there all weekend. The best of this was when he called the lad in question to give him a rolleking telling him he had left it on the meter the reply came its ok ive got a spare one in the van so ill be ok till i see you next. Make of that what you will.

 

[Koogatubac]

Im so glad im away from site work. Yeah when working with companies there were 6 installers and 1 solely gas man who's job was to sign work off and do the checks.

Basically absolute joke! I forgot checks, pressures etc since all you got to do is installations.

So glad i do it all now!

 

[jase158]

when I first read this I thought "windup"
and after seeing the responses I'm thinking "this is a tiler from tiling forum, fed up with us plumbers going over there and asking about tiling so has got a lil revenge"

if he was genuine he would actually be asking a question or have some sort of querie, who actually comes on here and boasts about what they do.
re-read the post now you have read this and see what you think!!

 

[CES]

The difference is in new build housing on a site, fitters all essentially work for the same employer using the same company gas safe registration. Its not the same as a builder running pipes in and hanging a boiler and then getting someone else in to sign it off.
Personally speaking I wouldn't, why would anyone want to lose out on a heating installation to a builder and then take responsibility for it all by signing it off? But yes there are guys out there who do it even though its against the law not just morally wrong.

 

[Mr Doberman]

when I first read this I thought "windup"
and after seeing the responses I'm thinking "this is a tiler from tiling forum, fed up with us plumbers going over there and asking about tiling so has got a lil revenge"

if he was genuine he would actually be asking a question or have some sort of querie, who actually comes on here and boasts about what they do.
re-read the post now you have read this and see what you think!!

He aint no tiler !

 

[PlumbBobBob]

he's a wannabe, wannabe plumber, wannabe tiler

 

[Mr Doberman]

he's a wannabe, wannabe plumber, wannabe tiler

You missed out plasterer

 

[Dotty]

Should this thread be closed before one of us gets into trouble?

 

[CES]

he's a wannabe, wannabe plumber, wannabe tiler

Is that not a spice girls song steveb?

 

[Keefy]

Should this thread be closed before one of us gets into trouble?

Aaw, I'm hoping the OP posts those pics, he said he would.

 

[AWheating]

Regarding new build etc...., you will always get one person installing on first fix and another 2nd fixing/commissioning. Thats how it works. This does not mean that the person first fixing can be non gas registered, nor not responsible for any poor or incorrect work. Its a companies responsibility to ensure all work is carried out by competent persons and carried out correctly, its also a companies responsibility to keep records of work done. If your turning on and "signing off" you cant take responsibility for something you can see/detect, but your doing so knowing the work has been done by a competent person and that person is the responsible person for there work.

If you know that the work has been carried out by a non competent person then thats a different matter. why any GSR engineer would want to encourage or cover up such work i dont understand?