We have got the CP12 but nothing about the vent was mentioned. the guy did say that he thought a service was needed but when we mentioned this to the agent we were told that a service was done at the beginning of Oct.We have given a copy of the warning notice to the agent but now that the landlord wont do anything the letting agent is refusing to pursue it.
We have twin 5 year olds and a five month old baby. Are they safe? We believed that because the gas safety went well we would be ok.
Naomi
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a baxi 552 back boiler and fire require a vent probably of 100cm2, you have a safety cert which mentions nothing about a vent problem, and a gas engineer who has said the vent isnt right so we cant tell which of the 2 gas engineers in question know what they are talking about, but one does and one doesnt, so it needs to be clarified, phone the firm who issued the cert and explain your fears, and ask if they could re-visit to check the vent, if they dont want to tell them you are genuinely concerned and will contact Gas safe to see if they will investigate on your behalf, if the firm are local enough and you are pleaant enough to start with they might consider popping rather than have a prohibition notice from Gas safe, however if they do visit and say "yes its fine" or whatever, quiz them on the vent, get him to show you the vent and ask them to countersign the cert you have confirming that the vent is adequate, if they are in the right and the vent is fine they will have no problem signing as it will reassure you that they are the experts and the gas board guy was wrong, if they wont sign then make up your mind whether to contact Gas Safe, i would honestly advise anyone to contact them, ok they get pelters from within the trade but this is their forte looking into reports of problems, keep pushing and demanding, it is your kids safety we are talking about, (if all is ok then apologies for the heavy tone of the post, but better you slag me for being victor meldrew than contemplating me being right and the potentially awful consequences, if the firm wont visit because they know they are right, and fair play to them for knowing, because if i checked it and said it was fine i wouldnt need to visit, and would have no problem with you contacting gas safe about my work cause they will visit and say he is right, then contact gas safe for a totally independant review of the situation,
PS i TOLD you stop giving us X's haha
PPS keep us posted