Prison for gas fitter after work put family in danger...

[AlexGas]

[DLMURL="http://press.hse.gov.uk/2014/prison-for-gas-fitter-after-work-put-family-in-danger/"]Prison for gas fitter after work put family in danger. Media centre - HSE[/DLMURL]

 

[Whyme]

blimey failed to fit an inner flue. There all inbreds up there though.

 

[gassafe]

Seems a pretty blatant abuse if the regs, no inner flue, and a cowl type shutter on the outside!! Yet he is only fined £1000, no wonder so many non registered guys work illegally

 

[Reg Man]

Shocking job. At least got a couple of months to consider the errors of his ways.

 

[wetdrip]

He'll probably receive a grant from the Prisoners Educational Trust, and come out of prison Gas Safe registered, like the rest of you on here.:clap:

 

[Ermintrude]

I just told a builder to jog on. Wanted me to send some one over to commission another boiler. I replied we don't commission illegal jobs. He said a cp12. Nobs been paying me to do cp12 and using that as a signing it off riddor!

 

[Millsy 82]

Unfortunately until the householder gets hit things like this will keep on happening. If people are unable to sell their house or their house insurance is affected they can't get cover for their boiler etc because they haven't got a signed off boiler they will go for the cheapest quote and not worry about the consequences. It seems death or serious health problems will not stop people so maybe financial would if they had to pay £500 to have an appliance commissioned they would soon tell gas safe who installed it, now all you get is I don't remember!

 

[Ray Stafford]

It seems death or serious health problems will not stop people

You only need to look at people's driving, eating, drinking, smoking and sexual habits to realise that the way people treat their gas appliances is a trivially inconsequential example of human stupidity.

 

[wetdrip]

You only need to look at people's driving, eating, drinking, smoking and sexual habits to realise that the way people treat their gas appliances is a trivially inconsequential example of human stupidity.

Too true Ray; and like the above they end up paying for it in the long run.

 

[Mrs Tara Plumbi]

The public are ignorant of the regulations are really you can't expect them to know, they don't get boiler moved or new boilers fitted very often.
The nanny state should have a system in place that makes it hard for rogue traders to work without putting the onnus on householders to know about the rules and check up on GSR.
Like only selling gas fittings to GSR installers, or tracking appliances and requiring them to be registered in a slightly different way to how it works now.
One problem with current system is the installation notification is under Building Regs.
completely different and separate to Gas Regs - enforced by HSE
they exist for different purposes and are implemented in different ways.

 

[Reg Man]

The whole system is to complicated, Gas Regs, Building Regs, MI's, H&S at work act. Then the inept enforcement that has to trawl through all of the contraventions a make them fit for prosecution. The irony is that most successful prosecutions come from not being registered with a class of persons approved by the HSE (Gas Safe Register) an easy to prove case.

 

[bassmonster]

More harsher sentences should be dished out for illegal installers. I reckon this guy got off too lightly.

Also, customer saying they spent £10,000 to put it right? Doesn't that seem a bit doubtful?

 

[djob]

Unregistered gas fitters fined for illegal work at Plymouth house | Plymouth Herald

 

[jackyp1234]

Also, customer saying they spent £10,000 to put it right? Doesn't that seem a bit doubtful?

British gas must of done the remedial works ha