I'm looking at hiring out my bus and apparently require a gas safety certificate. How do I obtain this? Is there a list of gas safe engineers that deal with caravans and campervans? All domestic gas engineers I've spoken to either not interested or can't help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Hello. Your best bet is to use the “find an engineer “ feature on the Gas Safe website. Pop in your postcode and what you are looking for. Or failing that call gas safe and they can tell you who holds the correct ticket in your area. lpg is a bloody nightmare. I hold tickets for cookers, fires, water heaters and boilers in natural gas. If I spend a few hundred pounds and lose three days in a classroom then I can do the lpg conversion. I’d then get cookers first water heaters and boilers LPG but only in fixed premises. I’d then need to do an additional assessment and pay more money for caravans/mobile homes. I think mobile lpg is another ticket and if you want to do food wagons then I think that’s classed as catering and another ticket. You can see why none of us bother. Gas safe have made it a fecking nightmare. I actually thought about doing the mobile catering lpg ticket as so few people have it and then charging obscene amounts of money for each certificate. Then the reality of trying to get paid from people who’s business quite literally wont be in the same place tomorrow sunk in, and I dropped the idea.
Just doubled checked. If you do use the GSR website then you put in your postcode, then select LGP. Then a drop down menu appears where you can select the required appliance type like mobile/caravan etc.
There are a lot of mobile caravan and motorhome service engineers about. They do habitation inspections so ought to have the qualifications.
Boats are a different ticket to motorhomes. Just another way to squeeze out a few more pennies from every engineer. Take xyz water heater. Put it in a house. I can work on it. take that same water heater and fit it in a Static caravan then I can’t. So I take the lpg Conversion. I still can’t work on it cos it’s not a house. So I have to take the mobile home ticket. Now take the same xyz heater and put it in a mobile caravan or a boat and I can’t service it again. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh it’s the same fecking water heater. So I do all these tickets and then you put it in a kebab van. So now I can’t work on it at all as now it’s a commercial appliance apparently. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh again. You wonder why you get charged so much for what seems like a small job? Well this sort of nonsense goes a long way towards the reason. So this leads to two things. 1. It’s so hard for a person to find the correct ticket holder they give up and don’t bother. 2. Genuine gas engineers just end up doing it anyway cos they just can’t afford to keep turning jobs away. so in the end no one wins except Gad Safe who think they are being awfully clever when actually their stupid rules just drive people to do illegal work which is the exact thing they were set up to stop.
The gas safe brand/logo is owned by the government. However the administration and I assume the charging is run by Capita.
Just provide a cartridge based portable stove. Or an eye watering Origo meths cooker. Which I have on my boat instead of gas. Or an eye wateringly expensive Wallas diesel hob.
I seem to remember it's all part of a "habitation certificate " which most of the larger specialist motorhome vendors seem to crow about ... Ensures the gas and water systems have been checked apparently ? Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
I have no idea, but it’s a legal requirement to have a gas safety inspection on a rented house or a rented static caravan. I’d be surprised if it’s not a requirement for a rented motor home as well. But I’m just guessing. perhaps you might find it’s a requirement of your rental business insurance.
If there’s no legislation to cover what needs checking and how to check it how can there be a certificate?
