Re: GWN in Scotland

[davieboy]

Dont know how many of you are from Scotland but thought this might interest.
Just off the phone with corgi. Turns out we don't have to fit energy efficient boilers until april 2006. something to do with big manufacturers having a large quantity of non-condensing boilers on the shelf and using scotland as the market (dumping ground?) to get rid of them.
Also, re GWN. Corgi apparently are going to make the manufacturers/distributors register all gas appliances at point of sale. Dont know if i believe this one....

up the argi!!

dave

 

[kevplumb]

prob right mate

if we dont stand together we DONT STAND

 

[ollski]

Yes the intention is that each gas appliance is tracked from the cradle to the grave...that has to be a good thing cowboys and DIY'ers will be forced out of the picture, the money side of all is a different argument.

 

[kevplumb]

you are really having a laff

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Yea so Mr Smith or Mr Singh buys his boiler or fire from B&Q and gives his real name and address and Mr CORGI is going to go round every single house and check it's fitted properly and if it's not it will be a £50.00 fine or take a chance never straight to jail and dont pass go, yea right, what a load of bolllockks.

 

[ollski]

No it won't work like that it will all be linked into the new seller's packs for moving house, with no benchmark and registration your bodged up installation will devalue your property more than it would have cost to have it installed properly...ok it will take years but the self employed installer will have more work and the rubbish should be weeded out. I don't see any problem with the idea it is what most gas operatives have been calling for for years as I say the only problemI can see is with corgis ever increasing charges.

 

[kevplumb]

you wouldnt work for the dog by any chance

 

[Noraslad]

Corgi can't make suppliers do anything, they are negotiating with them as far as I understand it, but that shoulda happened before GWN. As far as home sellers pack, GWN is only for new installation or appliance exchange, so what about the ones that's been in years, sorta shoots itself in the foot don't it.
Guess what the next move is then?
You'll spend as much time filling in gwn forms as doing installs and services.

 

[Emperorsnewclothes]

Probably it won't even happen in 2006, also like for like swaps will still be ok, only new installations will have to meet efficiency requirements.

Point of sale registration will NEVER happen in one part of the uk alone, it would be lobbied off the planet. Jack and the boys certainly couldn't hack it. Any Scots polititian worth their salt is at Westminster.

Home seller packs will be a long time off in Scotland, look at the opposition to sensible things like the seller getting a survey done. If the executive can't flex enough political muscle to push that through then taking on the public with a sellers pack is not going to happen for a long time.

Appliance GWN (as per new corgi rules) in Scotland makes even less sense. How many RGIs are gonna send off their dosh for that one? Fit a cooker "oh that'll be an extra £4.50 for corgi missus" "Aye right!"

It's a sham worthy of John Prescott's name. The best we can do is let the voters know what a fudd he is. Maybe then they'll dump him as a liabilty (cabinet reshuffle "Ah John, your just the man we need, we'd like you to take over the Northern Ireland post").

GET REAL!

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

More like send the fat git to iraq

 

[kevplumb]

oy you i dont want him either

 

[oilman]

You could try some spelling classes, Iraq is spelt I-R-A-Q, not A-F-G-H-A-N-I-S-T-A-N

 

[kevplumb]

its just down the road

ffo ssip

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

No iraq is spelt E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E W-A-S-T-E-O-F-O-U-R-M-O-N-E-Y

 

[Emperorsnewclothes]

Anyone going to one of the corgi seminars to say their piece?.....or top up on bullshit?