Boiler certificates when selling property

[bonborez]

We have lost the original Corgi certificate from when our boiler was installed in 2006. I have contacted Corgi for a replacement and they say the boiler was never registered with them. The plumber emigrated some time ago, I have no idea where to!

We have a gas safety record (on Corgi paper) from shortly after and we have had the boiler serviced a couple of times for which we have the paperwork and are getting it again done next week.

Would this satisfy you as a buyer?

I just bought a house and my solicitors made the vendors take out indemnity insurance which was about £15 I think

you need building regs approval - so contact the council to see if your cowboy did that.

the service is good but you must have building regs.

BTW no such thing as Corgi now, so I hope you spoke to GasSafe...

Thanks, apparently informing building regs was introduced in 2009 and GasSafe gave me a different number for boilers installed 2005-2009, which I assumed was Corgi but might have been a different department of theirs dealing with old Corgi registrations. It looks like he issued a gas safety certificate, not an installation certificate. Whatever its a pain in the backside.

Do you know if I have any comeback using the Corgi registration of the installer and the person who came to do the inspection?

Or do you know if we were supposed to do the registration part ourselves?

When we bought our house we only got a service certificate. That was 18 months ago.

Thanks Pipbin that's reassuring. That's all I'd want too. I just want to know the house I live in is structurally sound and safe so up to date GasSafe certificates etc would be fine by me.

I think common sense doesn't prevail in the house selling system. The house we are buying has an issue with an RSJ. It has been inspected by a structural engineer who says it is totally safe, it was a replacement for a very slightly smaller RSJ which had building regs but our solicitor says the vendor now has to get building regs for it (which means opening up the wall) or pay for indemnity. The vendor is refusing and I don't really blame them tbh.

cheers, I've learned something. But any heat-generating appliance (so covers oil, gas, wood burners) now needs building regs approval, even if it is a replacement. Be warned!

(loads of nagging later to get it done for our oil boiler..)