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Mate, hindsight being a fantastic thing but without a contract you could very well be screwed.

You're not the first and you certainly won't be the last.

I think your only recourse now is through a solicitor.
 
As said, i don't want to go into details here,but as a business man you really should know this stuff, but, to be fair, most don't, and i would say 99% of tradesman break the law daily
 
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ive been round to the property that i fitted the boiler in to try and gain access but it was all locked up. The house is now under a letting agency and am wondering if contacting them will help me in getting my money back. As the addres that i was given for the landlord is fake as the houses dont even go up as high as the number i was given. Also still no contact from landlord. How will the agency respond to the boiler not being registered with gas safe and the cp12 being void as the address fake.

Sort it ASAP now mate, don't wait any longer. This same thing happened to me with a builder and his famous footballer mate, I put the boiler in and pipework and handed him the invoice. He asked me for a homeowner certificate to include the new boiler and Corgi number so he could go to the bank to release more money as the build was being done in stages.
I gave him (stupidly) what he asked for and he gave me a £200 deposit, I never saw anything else, within a month the house was finished, up for sale and locked up secure. Wish I'd done something quicker but believed he would come through eventually but neither the builder or the fckuballer did.
 
If you have fitted a new boiler there's no requirement for a LGSC, so the agent won't care, and they won't help you identify their client the landlord
PS the kicker for you is you will get into bother forgot registering it, so again the agent won't care as it's the landlords duty to ensure the installer has registered it, doesn't stop the place being rented
 
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Wonder if you worked your way in with the agents staff would someone pass you the real details of the landlord? Try it & see what happens.
I guess that is technically illegal, but so is stealing off tradespeople imo.
 
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Go to the lettings agent posing as a prospective tenant. Try and get an unaccompanied viewing. If they give you the keys, you're in and not trespassing.

Although what you can do once you're is very limited. You cannot take the boiler off the wall, that's criminal damage I believe. If you cap the meter, the agency will just send their own gas engineer in to investigate.

Your only option really is to look through Land Registry records to get owner's details. It should have been recorded when the property was last bought, who the buyer was and their address.
 
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Go to the lettings agent posing as a prospective tenant. Try and get an unaccompanied viewing. If they give you the keys, you're in and not trespassing...

... and ask the landlords name & details of the agent because you are so impressed with the place & the new boiler work & would like to rent other properties he might have! :grin:
 
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