Carbon monoxide is not nice a friend of mine her boiler was like that I only sat in her kitchen for about a hour and my head was banging I would report the landlord to the council
I would ask under the freedom of information is this guy qualified if he works for the council he should have his papers, if not then you have a case against the council.
Some years ago when we had our extension built the electrician was 2 weeks late coming to us because the year before his company had lost the service contract with the council. The reason was they gave the contract to a Polish firm they had wired a building and it had caught fire due to faulty wiring and the guy who did my extension had to go and sort it out.
luckily no one was hurt in the fire the residents were out for the day with carers'
How awful, I hope your brother and his family are all OK.
My son's best mate is a Gas Safe registered heating engineer/plumber and he has some tales to tell! One of which is being offered payment by landlords for gas safe certificates without actually doing the annual inspections. Fortunately he has scruples and won't get involved in this sort of dangerous practice.
It certainly needs reporting. Get your brother to ask to see the latest safety certificate. Does he remember someone coming along to do the inspection?
It's either something to do with the landlord not following the rules (and putting their lives in danger) or the Gas Safe engineer not doing his job properly and he can be reported to Gas Safe Register. If your brother has sight of the certificate with the engineer's details on he can be checked out here: gassaferegister.co.uk/
This sort of thing makes my blood boil, it could so easily have ended tragically
Hi cheers he's landlords council and council did repair it SO guess will have records AND told brother not to let council take any paper work till copied and he just taken picture of boiler and flu.
Well, as it's the Council then hopefully they do things by the book, which might mean the engineer has cut corners or is at fault. Good luck with getting to the bottom of it.
I think it should be law that ever house with a boiler has a carbonmoxide alarm fitted , when we put our multi fuel stove in we had to have one fitted to pass the safety test , only cost a few pounds and can soon save a life ,
Hi Cheers defo agree with you there some councils do and some don't .. But he did have one that's how he knew but was on kitchen work top so would only gone off when nearly killing you given where was.
You assume given checks alls well but you can be so wrong
the return of slum landlords in my city
glad ur family r ok bloke who did the jpassed it should get the sack and firm put out of buissness
totally preventable
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sorry didn't read it properly council property ours fits a carbon monoxide detector upstairs and downstairs annually about only good thing they ever do
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