looks like professional electricians can service boilers now?

[Phil]

"USwitch recommend that you should get get your boiler serviced once a year by a professional electrician or CORGI registered engineer"

here

umm i thinks that may upset a few gas engineers and rightly so, nice to know it`s not just the electrical industry that they get things wrong for

 

[DurhamSparky]

Electric Water heaters??? (same bracket in eyes of Joe Bloggs)

 

[Phil]

Electric Water heaters??? (same bracket in eyes of Joe Bloggs)

true some don`t know the difference between the gas meter and electric meter, i kid you not i have met some

 

[martysparky]

true some don`t know the difference between the gas meter and electric meter, i kid you not i have met some

That is very true. I have met many of those and also they don't know where the meters are even.

 

[Phil]

i once went to a property that had a tenant that had been there for 20 years that could not tell me where the consumer unit was ??????? now you can`t tell me one of those re-wireable fuses had not melted through in 20 years, mind you saying that one was bodged up in 1.5mm and a couple burn marks.

 

[Guest123]

Seems they are a bit mis-guided as CORGI has been replaced with Gas-Safe now aswell.

 

[malcolmsanford]

I wonder if these kind people of Chippenham were refering to something like the Thermaflow Electric Combi Boiler - 9kW - 210L, though I doubt it.

I'm not sure I have this right, but I was told by someone that from 2012 all new build houses will not be supplied with gas and CH systems will be these electrical boilers, if that is true then a bit more work for us lads, but I may be wrong

 

[rocker]

true some don`t know the difference between the gas meter and electric meter, i kid you not i have met some

Some? I regularly come across people who don't know where their meters are, what they do or what they're for.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Boiler serviced all they do to mine is take the cover off, blow all the ---- out, refit cover, job done I can do that, but i'm on a maintenance contract.

I am going to start a consumer unit servicing business. Lid off, blow out crap, check terminals are tight, lid back on Gotta be worth £50 a go, eight a day, and home by 2

 

[Ponty Massive]

I am going to start a consumer unit servicing business. Lid off, blow out crap, check terminals are tight, lid back on Gotta be worth £50 a go, eight a day, and home by 2

Not that bad an idea.

It makes me when people religously get their boilers serviced every year, but refuse to get their electrics looked at.

Changed a cooker point for my father-in-law yesterday, I'd never looked at his board before. It's the standard 3036. Anyway, opened it up to to Ze before starting to find no supp bonding at all. Been in the house 40 years (from new), had the gas CH put in about 20 years ago.

Changed the cooker point and said, "look you need to have these bonds put in, I'll do them next weekend for you and fit and RCD as well". "Nah don't want them, it's worked fine for the last 40 years"

You can smell gas, buy carbon monoxide detectors etc, but yet quite happily pay your £15 a month (or whatever it is now) to get the cobwebs blown from your combi once a year, electricity you can't see or smell but people just will not give it a second thought.

Said to the missus as she was there at the time "Oh well love, the inheritence could come sooner rather than later"....didn't go down to well!!

 

[maddfridge]

hi there

A bolier service we did took 3 hours!

i hour to service that actual unit strip down and clean test etc and two hours to set up the scafolding to access the roof to in spect the flue from a back boiler.

result half a day getting it replaced amazing how much crap comes out with lol

cheers

 

[poppypiesdad]

Next it will be sparks can drive nuclear subs , will i had a try last week and.........

Jamie

 

[Jimmy Boy]

How odd there isn't any Mandatory requirement for landlords to have a retest on change of occupation or every 5/10 Years ?