Guarantee on new boiler DIY installed

[Andy Hall]

... and how many days was it before you could see out again? :-)

I suppose they do the whole procedure by rote......

.andy

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[Ed Sirett]

Erm yes.

I asked him if a bathroom has some sort of

I see you have the same winning approach offline.

[IMM]

practically

Always a winner.

[Andy Hall]

Must be a new spelling ;-)

.andy

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[Dave Plowman]

But not a snipper?

[Mike Barnard]

...NEVER A SNIPPER!

220 lines of crap and wasted bandwith snipped.

[IMM]

I am the greatest snipper in the world.

[Zymurgy]

It doesn't make a frig of difference. He has the certificate of competence, you don't.

Why not do all of the wall mounting, electrical and water connections and call in the CORGI (but obviously not this one) for the Gas bits. You'll still save money hand over fist.

At least the Gas connection will be CORGI certified as 'safe' via this route.

Cheers,

Paul.

[David Hearn]

The point is whether the work is safe. I don't care whether people think I'm competent - I care that the work is done properly and safely. Him having a certificate won't matter if the thing explodes or gasses us. The fact I don't have a certificate doesn't mean I can't do a good job.

Is this something you've managed to get done before? I've heard the following in this group:

Don't buy the boiler in advance - the fitter will either refuse to fit it (claiming not one he does) or he'll bump up the labour costs as he doesn't get to keep the discount he would have got if he'd bought it for me. Don't try getting the guy to come in to do just the gas work - its too little work for them and not worth their time (ie. we'll be saving money hand over fist - and he'll be getting peanuts). Don't try and find someone to commission it for you after you've installed it - they're not going to put their name to someone else's work and take the blame if there was a problem he missed.

All these suggestions have been made by people before and various people have made those kinds of replies.

Incidentally, doing it this way means we need to make sure we've got the boiler installed for a certain date - pre-booked with the engineer. Either we give a little more time to do it than might be necessary (to make sure its ready for when he comes) and risk having the heating off for a longer period than necessary. Or we don't give ourselves any extra time and risk overrunning and him having to come back another day (which may not be the next day). During that time we've got no heating.

David

[PoP]

The problem is that John Prescott deems that you wouldn't do a good job, so no matter how perfect it might be that's all that really counts.

PoP

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[IMM]

Very few will OK DIY work. Best to do your research. Ask Qs here. Then when you have it running, get a landlords certificate, because you are thinking of renting out. .

[David Hearn]

No, the real problem is that Tony Blair deems that John Prescott always does a good job, so no matter how bad it might actually be that's all that really counts.

;)

David

[PoP]

I'm not sure that's true. Bliar might be a lot of things but I don't consider him without intelligence.

It probably suits him to have a buffoon as deputy leader because Bliar knows full well that Prescott will never be a serious contender for the leadership.

The real contender lives next door. And I feel Bliar is waiting for the right opportunity for Brown to get the hot seat, so that Brown is seen as the real culprit for the countries woes.

All we need is for the right European presidency role to come up and Bliars got it made.

PoP

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[Ed Sirett]

No, the law allows you to get building control to say you did a good job....at your own expence.

[PoP]

Perhaps I'm wrong about this, but my interpretation is that it will be the householder who is required to provide certificates for their property. The fact that I might have carried out work on that site will not by necessity make me liable for issuing a certificate.

Or if it does then I expect a ten-fold increase in my prices for doing this job. I might charge £30 (or less) to change a light fitting, and add £300 to the invoice for the local council to come and check my work.

All in all I think this will worsen the situation that the government were trying to solve - to get rid of the cowboys from the industry. What will most likely happen is that the cowboys will go even further underground and want to be paid in untraceable cash for any work carried out, so that certificate requirements cannot be validated.

PoP

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[Zymurgy]

"IMM" wrote

Which is why I specified "At least the Gas connection will be CORGI certified as 'safe'"

I didn't countenance that he'd sign off the whole shebang.

Cheers,

Paul.

[Christian McArdle]

If he doesn't, you'll need to get building control approval, assuming you're not one to take your chances.

Christian.

[Ed Sirett]

As I said at some length in another thread. The situation is working for Windows and Gas, but I think there are several reasons why it's not going to change anything very much for electrics and water.

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