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You are NOT considered 'competent' to work on gas unless you are gas safe registared. It really is that simple.

I've named the Act that says it is.

If that's changed, could you name the Act that supports your view?

Says who?

Not the 1998 Act.

that's why it says:

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (1)...

last summer, I talked to the Gas Safe person who was servicing our theatre boilers. He checked with Gas Safe and, yes, I was allowed to work on my own boiler.

fe registared. It really is that simple.

Do I have to use a Gas Safe registered engineer to complete gas work?

Anyone employed to work on gas appliances in domestic premises must be a Ga s Safe registered engineer link to external website and competent in that a rea of gas work. The gas engineer's competencies are clearly marked on the back of the engineer's Gas Safe Register ID card. If in any doubt you can r ing Gas Safe Register 0800 408 5500 or check their website link to external website to see if the engineer is registered.

Then he was wrong.

Please quote an Act of parliament - not the ramblings of a professional body with an axe to grind.

It's the magic word "EMPLOYED". You are not employing yourself if you work on your own equipment.

funnily enough, I'd prefer to believe a professional who has been working in the industry for a great many years.

We're talking about DIY, so that's not relevant. Next?

You've had the relevant section of the law pointed to you.

It doesn't say you need to be on the gas safe register. Or can you point to a bit which does?

Where is the law which says that? You've had the law which doesn't say that shown to you - unless you can show otherwise, you're not going to win this argument.

You'll probably go on insisting you need to be gas safe, but you'll be wrong.

I've just answered that, but :

a) That's not the law, just an interpretation of it. Though it is correct. b) It's "Anybody employed to" - DIY is not about people being employed to do stuff.

It does look like like they support what we're saying, not what you're saying.

Though in this case it's the HSE, and what's been written is correct. It just doesn't say what whisky-dave thinks it does :-)

Note the word "employed".

Oh, do f*ck off and die, there's a good little dribbler.

They have got rid of teh rathe rstarnge word employed.

I employed a screwdriver to undo a screw. I DID NOT have to pay the screwdriver anything.

What gas work can I do myself? The definition of gas 'work' is quite wide ranging but you can perform the tasks set out in the user's instructions, (provided by the appliance manufacturer) that are intended for the user to carry out. This would not be a breach of the law.

The law allows you to replace or adjust any component or control that is designed to be operated, or replaced by the gas consumer e.g. a cooker tap control knob. However you should not do anything that involves d isturbing the gas carrying components (such as the gas supply pipe) or that could affect the combustion process (such as removing the combustion case of an appliance

- see Can I take the case off my gas appliance? below)

Of course it does say that, how could it the gas safe registare didn;t exist until about 2006.

What gas work can I do myself? The definition of gas 'work' is quite wide ranging but you can perform the tasks set out in the user's instructions, (provided by the appliance manufacturer) that are intended for the user to carry out. This would not be a breach of the law. The law allows you to replace or adjust any component or control that is designed to be operated, or replaced by the gas consumer e.g. a cooker tap control knob. However you should not do anything that involves d isturbing the gas carrying components (such as the gas supply pipe) or that could affect the combustion process (such as removing the combustion case of an appliance

- see Can I take the case off my gas appliance? below)

safe registared. It really is that simple.

a Gas Safe registered engineer link to external website and competent in th at area of gas work. The gas engineer's competencies are clearly marked on the back of the engineer's Gas Safe Register ID card. If in any doubt you c an ring Gas Safe Register 0800 408 5500 or check their website link to exte rnal website to see if the engineer is registered.

What gas work can I do myself? The definition of gas 'work' is quite wide ranging but you can perform the tasks set out in the user's instructions, (provided by the appliance manufacturer) that are intended for the user to carry out. This would not be a breach of the law.