Plumbing, Drain-laying and Gas-fitting | Level 3 | 2022

In the following sections we will look at the legal and safety requirements when work in with gas.

What is Gasfitting and who can do it?

Gasfitting is any work involved in installing, altering or repairing gas appliances including the fixing or unfixing of any gas pipes, ventilation or flue pipes, commissioning gas appliances and ensuring their safe operation (including the testing, setting, checking and adjusting of safety devices, combustion conditions and controls associated with the gas installation and ensuring there is adequate ventilation).

Gasfitting includes work on appliances fitted to ships, boats, caravans, motorhomes, trains and any other vehicles, and also includes work on gas appliances fixed within buildings that are supplied by gas bottles of any size.

A certifying gasfitter is responsible for the testing, verification and the supervision of tradesman gasfitters, Journeyman gasfitters, limited certificate (trainee gasfitters) and exempted persons.

Work that is not defined as gasfitting includes work on portable gas appliances which have the gas bottle attached such as barbecues, cabinet heaters and patio heaters, although the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board strongly recommends that a gasfitter is used.