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Hi guys, i often get enquiries for fitting elements to gas cookers, every day turning down easy work for the sake of safety first, a customer pestered me none stop until i came up with an idea, would it be legit legally for myself to disconnect the cooker, fit the element and leave with it disconnected? and get the customer to sign to say they are having a gas registered engineer re-fit and test the cooker?
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As long as you don’t tamper with any gas line (excluding the flexible gas hose) you are OK to do electro/mechanical repairs. So say Gas Safe…….. There are reams of guff on the stuff around here if you hit the search button………. BOOM!
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sounds like common sense, the only thing their is how does an electrical engineer know that the cooker is safe for use afterwards? when i complete a repair on a washing machine i have to test it all now just the repair i carried out? what if the cooker has an existing problem with the gas side and i was unaware through lack of gas safe training and it caused harm afterwards? is the engineer liable because they were the last engineer on the job?
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simonb wrote:what if the cooker has an existing problem with the gas side and i was unaware through lack of gas safe training and it caused harm afterwards?
The quintessential $64million question. You cop it if there was a problem. That’s why I don’t go near dual fuel… Not me Jose’. Others figure the risk worth taking as the odds are extremely low anyway, their choice.
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I suppose the only way would be to get the customer to sign something. But wether that would hold up to scrutiny I’m not so sure
I personally only do elements if I can get there through the front
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Safety first and law second, and i cant get past the first part if i knew the cooker was safe for use id probably issue a notice to say id disconnected it and its their responsibility to have it tested and get them to sign it to say it was disconnected from the gas supply, your right Martin i think what you said reinforced my reluctance to work on gas cookers, my eldest is 18 and just completed a city and guilds in gas work and were looking for a local course in or near manchester to send him to (between £3000 to £5000! in total to get gas safe registered) and when he can be bothered to get his act together(he’s at that age :rolls: ) he can sign the cooker’s off as safe.
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Martin wrote:As long as you don’t tamper with any gas line (excluding the flexible gas hose)
The flexible hose is included if you are working on the appliance, a tradesman is no longer allowed to touch anything gas in the house unless they are registered, the householder though is allowed to disconnect and reconnect the bayonet fitting.
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