Old cookers and gas safe certificates

[ed209]

As regards gas cert its either safe or its not

 

[Simon F]

Is this article available to view online anywhere to your knowledge? Reason I ask is it's good to understand the requirements properly and I keep hearing conflicting stories.

Available on line by login in to Gas Safe. Just need to be registered for that!
it was really as a pointer for the gas fitter

 

[Ric2013]

So the consensus seems to be that the cooker, if all the safety features as designed by the manufacturer work, the cooker should be able to pass a so-called landlord's check and that the criteria for a Gas Installation Safety Certificate do not change if it is a let property.

Great then. So assuming the gas installer is just being advisory (I'll find out), I'll take it off her hands: little things are starting to go wrong with my own gas cooker (Stoves Newhome - by comparison with the Solaire it's a lump of junk). Apparently she has a tenant lined up - the neighbour's daughter (trouble ahead if you ask me, but no one has asked me) who prefers electric anyway so she's going to have an electric cooker fitted.

 

[tamz]

Absolutely no reason not to pass a well maintained and looked after gas cooker no matter how old it is. It works in exactly the same way as an other cooker.
Even if it was one of the old new worlds that had the gas poker to light the grill it wouldn't matter. It is either working as it was designed to do or not.

Btw if she's renting to someones daughter and she's anything like most of the young team these days the cooker will never be used. Its either microwave or ring a takeaway.

 

[newcastle phill]

Believe it or not my daughter at uni managed to empty a house by putting a ready made meal in for 200 mins instead of 20.
Apparently the plastic reacting was like mustard gas

 

[tamz]

Hahaha. And these are supposed to be the clever generation lol
Fk me what will the next lot be like
I'm actually still laughing at that one lol

 

[Ric2013]

Yeah well, there are plumbers who have BAs in English Literature. After all, a lot of people need to make a lot of money out of students so everyone needs to go to university, even if it isn't in their interest.

Did I tell you a friend's brother (he was 17) was left alone at home by his parents and he called an electrician out because a lightbulb had blown and he didn't know how to change it? At least he had the initiative to get it sorted, I suppose.

 

[newcastle phill]

To be frank I have 3 kids of worrying age. 15 16 and 19.
They are all ****ing useless.
Scares the **** out of me these ****ers are the future.
Cant even flush a toilet

 

[tamz]

Tbh Phil my ma slapped me in the 60's for not flushing the toilet or pyshing on the floor but i catch yer drift

 

[Ric2013]

I think that's probably why I'm a plumber - we had no money to get everything done and my so we got on with it. Eventually I discovered it was better if I did this sort of thing than let my mother do this sort of thing

('I put my fingers behind the fuse cartridge to get better grip'.
'Well, you could at least have switched the consumer unit mains switch off first if you were going to wrap your fingers around the pins')

In fairness, I did learn how to change spark plugs, oil, and contact breaker points from her.

Which is why I'm surprisingly good at getting anything ancient and obsolete working again. Really useful when you're doing repairs to get new custom.