Is my wife allowed under Corgi Regulations to clean our gas hob?

ok. originally the corgi registration was brought about for connecting to the meter.. british gas did'nt want just anyone messing with their equipment.. [rightly so ] but once the meter was in place and a connection made, just any competant person could then apply a pipe to it.. [kitchen fitters] etc...

from there you get dodgy plumbers making suggestions that only 'they' can do the connection.. we now have a situation where people are lead to beleive all kinds of things to do with plumbing..

plumbing is really simple once it is fitted insitu, and most competant people can fix and repair it.. [why do you think all the big D.I.Y. stores sell most plumbing bits?] [surely its not for you to supply your plumber so he can do a job for you?].. plumbing isnt a closed shop, trade anymore...its open to all 'competaent' persons to be able to fix a leak. or mend a pipe.. you will find that most of the regs will apply to new work. especially new build..

thats where the problem arises..

we are shopfitter kitchen fitters with a vast experience in this field..we always do the pipe moving on a kitchen job..[plumbers take too long !]

i'v had lots more experience than most plumbers [ i'm 52] so i do consider myself as competant...

the electrical trade has the same upstart ideas too.. according to most electricians.. only 'they' can do a wiring job.. wrong.. any 'competant' person can fit items and wire 3 little wires into a socket.. but they would have you beleive otherwise... did you know, that any competant person can re-wire a whole house? the reg are only set up for 'new work' thats alway been the case too..

one would need an electrician to say,extend the wiring in your home,but, you yourself could ''re-wire'' the whole house if you felt competant..

you really have to read carefully when reading up on most bumf''and listening to bumf..because the wording is usualy set up to further the pockets of the writers. companies.. thats why they are worded in such a way as to make no sense.. most 'so called' regs are a con trick..

Gas Hob Regulations

Strangely enough if I run the hob and turn on the boiler and a ring on the hob goes out then that would be immediately dangerous, a situation that can arise with poor pipework sizing. However if someone doesn't replace the burner rings properly or blocks part of them with soapy water the same thing can happen. I have seen this quite often. Nevertheless it is not prohibited for you or your wife to clean the cooker. However the practice of putting silver foil all over the cooker is very much frowned upon.

From the information you've given, it would seem that you must fork out to get your wife Corgi registered pretty darn quick... because if "work" includes "changing [the] position" of any part of your gas hob then not only can't she clean it, she can't turn the hob on or off either. ;D

NB to any Corgi-registered cooks out there... get your price hikes in now!

Think about it carefully.

Which part of the hob that you can get to with your CIF or whatever and your cloth is classed as a fitting in the terms you describe above?

Find another excuse for being a lazy get and clean your cooker :-)

Bang! Don't even know what this is, but if your wife doesn't need to clean or fix it, that's one for her. Being a female, we have enough to do around the house so use those buttons on your phone and start by saying, Hello.

Tell her to get cleaning.

As long as you don't interfere with the gas pipes or valves you'll be OK.

Yes.

Yes she is. Think your reading too much into this. Do you get joiner into clean your laminate floor - I don't think so.

Aye it's rocket science this gas fitting work don't do this don't do that ! bugger the regulations i've done all my own work for years and never had any problems, why pay rip off plumbers,electricians, corgi fitters if you can do it all yourself