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i wonder if someone can advise me please. Just bought a new house and had a complete new central heating system put in with a combi boiler, rads etc..as it had electric storage heaters before. all has been working fine, it was installed by a experienced qualified, registered installer who has a good reputation.
Im also in the middle of having a new kitchen installed. Today the kitchen fitter sent a gas engineer out to me to put in a pipe for the new gas hob, now this engineer was only suppose to be here for half an hour as i was told it was simple job for him to do, but he turned up with 3 other helpers and his attitude was quite arrogant.
he told me i had got a gas leak which obviuosly alarmed me but then he said it wasnt too bad ( it was 2bars in 2 minutes if that makes sense) he said i should allow him to replace the gas pipe and it would cost £200 or thereabouts. He made it seem quite serious. I told hm that id only days earlier had the central heating fitted and that surely if there was any danger the previous installer would have pointed it out. He said that perhaps the previous one just let it go as he wanted to get on with fitting the central heating. Now this made me wary and so i asked him if this work was really neccessary, after umming and arring he told me that it was in the permitted level and so he would give me an advsiory certificate. My question is, is this correct, do i have a leak, would the central heating guy have spotted that and if it is a leak at 2bar over 2 mins ( thats what he wrote on the certificate. Is it anything to worry about. There is no gas fire in the property just the central heating . i just got the impression that this guy wanted to make a quick £200 whilst he was there. thanks for any advice.
Im also in the middle of having a new kitchen installed. Today the kitchen fitter sent a gas engineer out to me to put in a pipe for the new gas hob, now this engineer was only suppose to be here for half an hour as i was told it was simple job for him to do, but he turned up with 3 other helpers and his attitude was quite arrogant.
he told me i had got a gas leak which obviuosly alarmed me but then he said it wasnt too bad ( it was 2bars in 2 minutes if that makes sense) he said i should allow him to replace the gas pipe and it would cost £200 or thereabouts. He made it seem quite serious. I told hm that id only days earlier had the central heating fitted and that surely if there was any danger the previous installer would have pointed it out. He said that perhaps the previous one just let it go as he wanted to get on with fitting the central heating. Now this made me wary and so i asked him if this work was really neccessary, after umming and arring he told me that it was in the permitted level and so he would give me an advsiory certificate. My question is, is this correct, do i have a leak, would the central heating guy have spotted that and if it is a leak at 2bar over 2 mins ( thats what he wrote on the certificate. Is it anything to worry about. There is no gas fire in the property just the central heating . i just got the impression that this guy wanted to make a quick £200 whilst he was there. thanks for any advice.