Anybody know about gas boilers regs?

[zoltan]

landlords shoulr not be renting unless they have a landlord certificate for the Gas - thats the top & bottom of it

she has to fix it & has to provide tenant with copy of cert if asked to do so - her insurance etc is invalid if this isnt done these days - remind her

 

[Giles]

sorry, yes, second guy @ self

hmmmmmm..........if it was fitted correctly when it was installed, i'm not sure he can say it's unsafe now. difficult though, cos the regs are open to a lot of interpretation ime (had a similar problem a few years ago)

if it does need replacing, you might get a nice new cheaper-to-run condensing boiler (Building Regs insist on this now for new boilers)

e2a: do you/the landlady have previous safety certificates?

They have to be CORGI.

However, the issue with CURRENT standards as opposed to those that applied when the thing was installed is a tricky one.

I have had a similar situation and it is a pain when one overzealous (newly qualified usually) engineer decides to flag it as dangerous because it doesn't meet the installation standards as of NOW, and then other engineers take the easy route and see his sticker and just refuse to repair it, when in fact they should.

Its like, if I have an old car with no seatbelts, it is perfectly legal to drive around in, even though it wouldn't meet current regulations for new cars and you get overzealous young traffic cop telling you its illegal! Oh how I enjoyed making him radio his police station to prove me right on that one....

When our old boiler (over a bath) finally died, no-one would fit a new one in the same place (even in a cupboard) and resiting all the pipework would have been difficult, messy and expensive. In the end they put the boiler on the other side of the wall (i.e. OUTSIDE) and built a weatherproof box round it) as it was the neatest solution. Small flat, solid concrete floors, very little alternative wall space available without putting it at other end of the flat.

Giles..

 

[wiskey]

Rang corgi - he said that he thinks its possibly a case of the second engineer being a bit over zealous and I should discuss it with the engineer who comes out next. He said the rules about old boilers and new regs was a bit fuzzy. And he's supposed to know!