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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey
I find that shocking.... so do plumbers, etc, that have insurance, carry proof around with them, i.e. the way CORGI fitters have a card, that you ask for, do they have insurance proof that they can or have to carry with them?
I'm feeling less inclined to let anyone into my house to do any work....
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All COGI registered fitters will have a card that has a photo along with his/hers registration details. This information can be checked on the CORGI web site. The card is also in brail so blind people can read the card. On the back of the card it reads:
The cardholder is deemed competent only in the categories of work identified by a tick.
Note the work competent not qualified.
Regarding the insurance in short NO, which I find quite shocking. I have 2m cover for any one incident. I only have a letter to confirm I hold public liability insurance.
Not wanting to worry you all but another big thing is unvented cylinders over 15l a lot of people have them fitted. Again you have to be registered to work on them. I get called to lots of jobs where so called plumbers have worked on them and have left the customer with a potential bomb. Believe it or not the last time was where a BG person had serviced a customers boiler and issued a certificate to say it was safe. I was called because the warning discharge pipe was dripping from the boiler. In short I turned it all off and advised the customer to phone BG service who sent out the same engineer who admitted he did not understand unvented systems.
