bobster wrote:yeah i got a quote from a so called m8 to fit it, and he wanted £400.............er no thanks!
Cost me about £30 in total for all the tubing and copper fittings............Plumbers......fookin robbin barstewards!
really! should have called me bobster, i fitted fossies for nowt! dont think thats robbery?
and its gas safe registered now, not corgi!
and yes i am!
problem with people fitting their own without the right ticket is that if there is a problem that is down to the instalation, that affects your neighbours property, then the liability for everything lies with the last guy to lay a spanner on it. not saying that you won have done a good job, but the gas regs are a minefield and the legal definition of competent isnt that you are able to do the job, legaly, with regards to gas work, competence is based on holding the relevant piece of paper. also, your investment in your new boiler might be at risk, cos you cant register the warranty for it without filling in and sending back the benchmark paperwork, and you cant send back the benchmark paperwork unless you are gas safe registered. in short, if its not fitted by a gs installer, then the warranty is invalidated!!
i could have got you some decent discount on a boiler, unless you have a mate in the supply trade.
so after a bit of exploritory surgery, i decided it was dead-beyond repair......... 
