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Gas certificates are all about carbon monoxide and CO2 levels. These things will kill you quietly in your sleep.
While I agree that older electrical work is generally kosher a leak on explosive gas links or boilers is not.
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That was my impression of the situation but I'm not really qualified to say.
Some older electrical installations pose a risk if you are used to modern protection like rcd for outdoors. Definitely worth using your own rcd protection if you are a trade moving around sites and working with power tools outdoors, on scaff etc. Of course most building sites require 110v anyway but there's loads of craftsmen/handymen relying on rcd protection that's not installed in every building.
Definitely in agreement about the requirement for safety on boiler emissions. It's probably the main reason for the discrepancy between electrical regs and gas safety.
Electrical safety checks are too big a discussion for this thread! Above my pay grade as well.
Sad to see this French girl and her father electrocuted by a phone in the shower recently. Wise to make sure anyone in your family knows the risk of phones on chargers in bathrooms.
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Gas certificates are all about carbon monoxide and CO2 levels. These things will kill you quietly in your sleep.
I had to take the batteries out of my carbon monoxide detector today. The loud beeping was giving me a headache and making me feel sick and dizzy.
Airhead
Greenbank
It's complicated. I don't know enough about the gas safety cert requirements to make a proper comparison.
It seems to me from the electrical side that a condition report is very different from a gas safety cert and an electrician is only required to remedy very few dangerous faults or shut the system down if the owner refuses to have the fault rectified immediately.