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A friend of mine justphoned me up to let me know about a situation he recently encountered.
He recently attended a breakdown on a one year old boiler which was shoddily installed & the home-owner informed himthat she had no receipt for the installation, could not get theinstaller back & that it had not been registered with Gas Safe.
She was given Gas Safe's phone number & phoned them up to inform them of the details & to see if they could be any retrospective action taken against the installer.
After a month she had heard nothing more so my friend phoned up Gas Safe to ask again & was told that there was nothing they could do as there is no legal requirement to register boilers with Gas Safe as it was CORGI's initiative from years ago & was not taken up by Gas Safe when they took over from CORGI.
If this is correct it is strange that Gas Safe omitted to tell installers of this fact but continued to let the revenue pour in from appliance registrations. It could have been be an omittion on their part not to let installers know the updated situation on appliance registration but my cynical side suspects otherwise.
I'd be very interested to hear others views on this. Maybe everyone is already aware of this anyway.
He recently attended a breakdown on a one year old boiler which was shoddily installed & the home-owner informed himthat she had no receipt for the installation, could not get theinstaller back & that it had not been registered with Gas Safe.
She was given Gas Safe's phone number & phoned them up to inform them of the details & to see if they could be any retrospective action taken against the installer.
After a month she had heard nothing more so my friend phoned up Gas Safe to ask again & was told that there was nothing they could do as there is no legal requirement to register boilers with Gas Safe as it was CORGI's initiative from years ago & was not taken up by Gas Safe when they took over from CORGI.
If this is correct it is strange that Gas Safe omitted to tell installers of this fact but continued to let the revenue pour in from appliance registrations. It could have been be an omittion on their part not to let installers know the updated situation on appliance registration but my cynical side suspects otherwise.
I'd be very interested to hear others views on this. Maybe everyone is already aware of this anyway.
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