what gas safe needs is some powers to investigate without being called inView attachment 18452they could start with this beauty
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That's nothing but pure laziness. How long does it take to cut a flue pipe? 1 minute!
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what gas safe needs is some powers to investigate without being called inView attachment 18452they could start with this beauty
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I hear this a lot, but it isn't true. It would be very far from easy.
All gas appliances have been bought and sold at least once before an engineer gets his hands on it. In many cases they have been sold three times or more. So you have to register AND regulate every merchant, showroom, distributor etc. I estimate that there are, on average, probably 1.5 to 2 sales in the supply chain for every 1 sale of the sort that you think would be "easy" to regulate.
Secondly, its not B&Q that are selling gas appliances in volume to unregistered people. Truly retail sales of gas appliances are trivially small. Its plumb centre, grahams, and indeed us who are selling to unregistered purchasers. Millions of appliances are bought every year by perfectly legitimate buyers - hospitals, housing associations, councils, governement departments, schools, hotel chains, big builders etc, who wouldn't dream of fitting it illegally, but don't want to be forced to pay the installers mark up - and why should they? I can see why registered engineers would like to monopolise those sales, but it would just be rent-seeking of the worst possible kind.
Setting up a point-of-sale regulatory system would be neither cheap nor easy. And it wouldn't stop some registered but irresponsible fitter from selling them out of the back of his van for a tenner mark up.
By far the cheapest and easiest thing would be to properly prosecute the next 50 or so "hall of shame" cases, and dole out a bit of high-profile jail time
It would require a picture on it as you could hand yours to a mate to us otherwise
its simple ray no card no sale, screwfix manage it ok, mark ups are negotiable like everything and thats no excuse in my simple mind.
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