British gas engineer

bigspark17 · Oct 2, 2012

got called out this morning to a rcd fault on a high integrity board.. identified this to the heating system (supplied via fused outlet).... frfom there i idendified dead short N- cpc to boiler.. opened the boiler to find this... considering that BRITISH GAS ENGINEER had been to fully service the boiler YESTERDAY..!!!!!!!!!!

[ElectriciansForums.net] British gas engineer

how can this engineer leave the boiler like this???? the supply flex was wedged in aggainst the burner!!! elderly gentleman in his 90 this was for.. ive printed him off a copy of the photo and reccomend he complaing strongly!!!!!!!!! should the engineer recomend that the supply for the heating system be a doulbe pole isolator?? i have changed it now but thought the engineer should have sheets to fill for this sort of stuff like we have!!

Brightspark2 · Oct 2, 2012

Could of it happened since yesterday?...

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drew35 · Oct 2, 2012

You said engineer, that means useless big headed know nothing know all popping gay, usually. Unless he's putting up skyscrapers in his spare time he's as much of an engineer as the "engineer" that empties my septic tank.
(I have a diploma in engineering so this is self flocculation) (I spelt that wrong! See, engineer...)

kingeri · Oct 2, 2012

My brother is a waste management engineer. i.e. binman!

Engineer54 · Oct 2, 2012

drew35 said:
You said engineer, that means useless big headed know nothing know all popping gay, usually. Unless he's putting up skyscrapers in his spare time he's as much of an engineer as the "engineer" that empties my septic tank.
(I have a diploma in engineering so this is self flocculation) (I spelt that wrong! See, engineer...)

Looks as if it's spelt correctly to me!!! lol!!! See Another Engineer!!!

kathwilcox · Oct 2, 2012

my other half is a gas engineer/plumber, he's been to many boilers that BG have supposed to have serviced, he's never seen a good job of there's yet!

People think that because they have a big name and are a national company that they can be trusted, far from it!

If they can't be bothered to fix it they just condemn it saying that the parts are obsolete and give silly prices for new boilers!

bigspark17 · Oct 2, 2012

its true just because they got a huge company name in van they think there the best thing since sliced bread.!!! just shoddy and lazy... especially for this elderly gentlman.!!

Geordie Spark · Oct 2, 2012

kathwilcox said:
my other half is a gas engineer/plumber, he's been to many boilers that BG have supposed to have serviced, he's never seen a good job of there's yet!

People think that because they have a big name and are a national company that they can be trusted, far from it!

If they can't be bothered to fix it they just condemn it saying that the parts are obsolete and give silly prices for new boilers!

I couldn't agree more.

Many times I've been able to buy and fit the parts that BG have said are obsolete / unobtainable / not worth repairing etc.

In one such case, the customer was quoted £3k+ to replace a boiler for which I was able to buy the part for £7.

British Gas?? ..... more like British Grasp !!!!

And I've never yet seen a neatly soldered joint made by them either. They all look like a candle with the grease hanging in globs down the side.

Specialist · Oct 2, 2012

From some of their jobs i've seen they probably use a candle to solder with.

kathwilcox · Oct 2, 2012

I have also been told that the training that BG engineers receive is not worth the paper it is written on, companies outside BG won't except them!

I may be wrong but this is just what i have been told by a couple of people!

Specialist · Oct 2, 2012

Hi Kath: Don't know what it's like on the Gas side, but I worked for them for a while on the Security side. We got the sum total of about 6 hours training on the systems they were using, i've been doing Alarms for longer than i care to remember but some of the youngsters did'nt have a clue even after the course.

Andy

kathwilcox · Oct 2, 2012

I worked with one of there lads a while back, the company i was working for at the time won a contract with BG to do the wiring on their ecogen boilers, he seemed like a decent guy and his work was neat and tidy!

My training for this was a day at the baxi training centre in warrington, half a day fault finding on s and y plan systems, waste of time for me as i already had how they work and the different types of systems, this has been drummed into my by my other half!

then 10 minutes looking at the micro generation boilers, and was handed the installation manual and that was it, also a couple of other books that are handy!

rsp84 · Oct 2, 2012

Its companies like bg that causes the hse to make cpa1 (flue analysis) manadtory, as they were just servicing with the use of a flue analyser which is used as an aid for dangerous readings.
Often we would service a boiler and the customer would say, oh its should only take you 10-15mins coz thats how long the bg guy was here last yr.
Its all due to giving the works too many servicing jobs per day.

kathwilcox · Oct 2, 2012

from what i have been told they done even take the front off of the boilers they just flue analysis the boiler if its ok then job done!

the amount of boilers my other half comes across with cracked insulation boards, warped spark electrodes, blocked sumps and other problems is unbelievable, he also works for a crap national company which i won't mention, gets 35 minutes to service a boiler, has between 7- jobs a day and travels about 200 miles, and moans like mad.

But he does his job properly! 1 because hes a geek and 2 he doesn't want the death of someone hanging over his head!

bigspark17 · Oct 2, 2012

i think people see the tv add an asume they getting the best possible engineer they could get.. wish people used people they know and trust in the local area.!

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