Do you know whether the person who repaired or installed your gas appliance is properly registered as being Gas Safe?

It’s estimated that almost 74% of gas appliances inspected by the Gas Safe Register are considered to be at risk. This means the appliances installed could be putting your life and your home in immediate danger.

The predominant cause of dangerous and unsafe gas appliances has been deemed to be related to untrained gas workers completing your boiler installations or central heating repairs.

Illegal gas workers may often accept lower fees for their services so many people believe they’re saving money by hiring a cheap worker. Unfortunately the cost of a few pounds could be putting your family and your home at significant risk of gas leak, fire, explosion or even exposure to carbon monoxide gas.

Badly fitted or poorly maintained gas appliances don’t always look like there’s anything wrong on the surface. You should always keep in mind that your appliances are connected to gas lines that need to be fitted properly to reduce the risk of dangerous accidents.

It is illegal for anyone to conduct work on gas appliances anywhere in Great Britain without adequate Gas Safe Registration. If you require boiler services or if you just want to repair home heating, then always be sure the gas worker you hire is registered.

There are many boiler installation services and central heating engineers in east London that are professionally licensed and Gas Safe registered. These are able to provide boiler services that won’t be putting your life at risk and compromising your family’s safety, and the cost is not as high as many people seem to think.

Before you agree to contract boiler services from a cheaply priced friend, always remember to check that the person is Gas Safe registered. No matter whether you’re looking for central heating in North London or boiler installation in East London, or even if you just want to repair home heating, don’t compromise your family’s safety by using illegal gas workers.

It is very important when having a new gas boiler fitted or repaired that you use gas safe registered engineers.

They bring along with them a lot of assured benefits and experience, but most importantly have passed exams to be able to do the job properly. You must only use a Gas Safe registered engineer for any type of gas work, including installation, maintenance and servicing.

These gas safe register engineers ensure to provide technical standards update as well as technical alerts services.

You can check whether a gas engineer is registered or not by entering their ID number in the ‘Check an engineer’ service. For the registered gas engineers, the following details are generally provided that is the picture of the engineer, his contact details, type of work that they are qualified to perform, etc.

In case the engineers are not registered, it is important to report them as working illegally by using another service called ‘Report an illegal engineer’ service.

Gas safe register, originally known as Corgi, is the official stamp for gas safety and generally gives the message that the gas should be kept safe. A gas safe register engineer is authorised to work with gas appliances. Not only this, he is also trained to use several safety campaigns.

An unauthorised gas engineer may do a bad job when fitting gas appliances or repairing them  which may cause carbon monoxide poisoning. Not only this, it may result into gas leaks and explosions as well.

It is therefore extremely important to always ensure that the authorised and registered gas safe engineers are allowed to work on the different gas appliances and equipments.

The competence level of different gas safe registered engineers can be checked by inspecting the gas work that has been carried out by them. The inspection can be generated from a range of different data sources.