oil boilers do i need qualifications or registration

[kimbo]

Simonjohns is right if you install and you are not oftec you contravene buildingregs and they can prosecute you, you can apply for planning and pay the appropriate fee.

 

[ecoplumber]

nope not at the moment - but most people look for oftec reg when looking for someone to work on a boiler - and my guess is - soon it will be a requirement to be oftec reg.

WRONG - and it never will be as the installation, replacement, and servicing of oil fired boilers does not have the backing of the health and safety inspectorate - unlike the legislation in regards to gas boilers

 

[Jay The Plumber]

someone is on the oftec warpath... even necrobumping old threads to hammer the point home

 

[heliotrope]

someone is on the oftec warpath... even necrobumping old threads to hammer the point home

It would seem this stems from his mate Tom supposedly being prosecuted 3 1/2 years
ago for fitting an oil boiler. Has even dragged up 6year old threads in the past as part of his argument.

His wife is a lawyer so he must be right!

Why the 3 1/2 year wait though is anybody's guess.

 

[Last Plumber]

Intriguing !

 

[SimonG]

Some people need something to do