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Well all you Gas Safe engineers had better start saving up, just started my re-assessment for CCN1, CKR1 and LPG today and have been told that by 2012 ALL gas engineers will have to take the Gas Analyser part of the ACS by then, even if you only repair or install gas cookers, we will also have to record combustion levels of gas cookers on service calls and installs as well.
Cost of the Anton Gas Analyser kit approx £750
Re: Flue Analysers – Gas Safe
i thought the rules were that if the manufacturer specifies that a co test has to be perofrmed in the commisioning then there is a legal requirment to do so and by 2012 it will be enforced as per having to have cpa1
most if not all modern boilers the manufacturers specify this now any way and provide the necessary data to adjust them accordingly.
havent seen a cooker manufacture specify it as yet.
the sprint v2 is about £550 with a printer.
Re: Flue Analysers – Gas Safe
I will double check on Monday when I go back Jeremy but I was told today ALL Engineers will have to take Analyser ACS part and cookers will have to be tested as well as boilers, commissioning cookers on install will be the same as boilers manufacturers instructions or not and results left with print out, all of us went a bit quiet I tell you
Re: Flue Analysers – Gas Safe
I just took a look on the Gassafe site and found this in industry standard upate no 27
It is refering to BS 6172: 2010 and says Clause 15.5 ( servicing and maintenance ) is new and highlights the need that where the manufacturer’s instructions require the combustion performance of the appliance to be checked, that the registered engineer will need to have access to a suitably calibrated electronic portable combustion gas analyzer and that the engineer will need to be competent in its use and interpretation of any reading obtained. So by the way this is worded, if none of the manufacturers you work for require the combustion performance to be monitored you do not need to sit CPA1
I also found TB020 which states that ” engineers who currently hold valid certificates of competence for HTR1 and CEN1 but do not hold a a current and valid CPA1 certificate of competence will have until 1st April 2012 to obtain this qualification”
So if you do boilers it is a must to have CPA1 by April next year.looks pretty clear to me ( I hope )
John
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