Getting gas boiler serviced

billyhead

Would anyone think that getting their gas bolier serviced by somebody advertising on the local newspaper and claiming to be a registered gas installer is risky? Some of these people are a lot cheaper then Bord Gias engineers

KoolKid

You can check if they are registered here
http://www.rgii.ie/home/find-a-registered-gas-installer.100.html

billyhead

There is no name on the add just a phone number

Micky Dolenz

Ring them and ask them their name.

K.Flyer

I would be a bit wary of "Tradesmen" advertising without their name and a landline number.
To have your boiler serviced phone Bord Gais and ask them to send someone out.
Qualified RGII Gas Installers / Service Personel will have the correct Insurance and will be accountable for any mistakes.
When it comes to Gas - Safety First -

yoshytoshy

Board gais have taken on a lot of new staff lately.

Nice to have a chirpy young lad call to your door:D

littleoulme

Bord Gais will also allow you to do a payment plan over 12 months now via direct debit/so

Micky Dolenz

I would not let a BG agent in my door. Heard too many stories about them, but for €40 a service no wonder they are rushing.

KoolKid

I could tell a few stories about GSL. Probably best not to post them here though.

Joey the lips

I agree with the discussion on board gais I would not let them near my home. Its not what they do...its what they dont do...

tbh i figure a good service should be around 100 euro min. however how do you know your getting a good tradesman.

The only way joe public can protect themselves is get a receipt and a cert of complience. Although if there rgii registered i imagine the cert will do.


i know a lad thats doing boiler servicing for 49 euro + vat. He does not give is name but his phone number. His logic for not giving the name is reasonable... He services a lot of apartments for a lot higher a figure and does not want them to see his name and make the connection.

billyhead

billyhead wrote: »

Would anyone think that getting their gas bolier serviced by somebody advertising on the local newspaper and claiming to be a registered gas installer is risky? Some of these people are a lot cheaper then Bord Gias engineers

There is no requirement to have a understanding in gas/gas appliances or qualifications in gas servicing to be RGI registered.
As far as i am aware to date no person has been removed from the gas register or prosecuted for working unregistered on gas, i see RGI as State sponsored silliness(but i'll stay off my soap box), i would advise anybody looking for a service to ask the local suppliers, boiler manufactures or friends for recommendations for service engineers, with the incident in the paper recently those boys would be alive to day if the boiler had been serviced by a competent engineer who understood the basics, so it's worth putting the effort in to seeing whose servicing your boiler because no one else will, safety before price.


On a more positive note there are a lot of good Rgi out there just make sure you get one.

knighted_1

gary71 wrote: »

There is no requirement to have a understanding in gas/gas appliances or qualifications in gas servicing to be RGI registered.
As far as i am aware to date no person has been removed from the gas register or prosecuted for working unregistered on gas, i see RGI as State sponsored silliness(but i'll stay off my soap box), ,
.

do you not have to show g1 and g2 certs to be registered with rgii?

knighted_1

knighted_1 wrote: »

do you not have to show g1 and g2 certs to be registered with rgii?

yep, a 5 day and a 10 day course, GIS and GID are not qualifications and in the future will have to be resat every 5 years in line with the UK, also you don't always need qualifications or experiance to sit the courses. The minimum you can do in the Uk is a one year entry level gas course which is full time and then you would have to build up experiance before you could sit the Papers to prove you know you're stuff.

yoshytoshy

I've a story for folk .

An old lady over in crumlin called board gais for a boiler service ,service guy called and did the job.
While he was there the woman asked him could he move her timeclock down a little ,so the guy arranged to call back later on that evening.

He charged the woman €180 ,to move a timeclock down a few inches ,using an exposed connector block to lenghten the cable.
A job he obviously did in his own time ,because it was in the evening time.

Some nice folk out there:mad: