ARTICLE 1,  15 JUNE 2009
 
PLUMBING, HEATING & NATURAL GAS INFORMATION
 
QUALIFICATIONS
 
PLUMBING & HEATING
Minimum
1.  NVQ Level 2 in Plumbing & Heating (or equivalent ie Guild of Plumbers Indentures), which allows work on:
Plumbing - Hot & cold water pipe work, cold water storage cisterns/tanks, hot water storage cylinders, bathroom suites, kitchen units and appliances
Heating - pipe work, CH cisterns & radiators
Recommended
2. NVQ Level 3 in Plumbing & Heating, which is an advanced qualification covering the same work as previously mentioned, but more complex systems and in more detail
3. WREG - Water Regulations Advisory Scheme (WRAS)
4. Unvented Hot Water Storage Systems*
5. Competent Person Scheme – (self certification of out-buildings work etc)*
 
NATURAL GAS (*/**)
 Accredited Certification Scheme (ACS) – Gas Safety Register
Minimum
6. CCN1 - Gas safety & pipe work (Core)
Job Specific
7. CEN1 – Central Heating (Boilers)
8. WAT1 – Water Heaters
9. HTR1 – Fires & Wall Heaters
10. CKR - Cookers
11. CPA1 – Combustion Performance Analysers (Flue gases)
12. Gas Meters
13. Tumble Dryers (Launderette)
14. Ducted Air Heaters
 
ALTERNATIVE FUELS & ENERGY SOURCES
15. Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG)- Orange canisters
16. Oil (Diesel) – Tanks
17. Solid Fuel (Coal & Wood) – Heating or Cooking Stoves
18. Combined Power & Heating
19. Solar
20. Ground Source Heat Pumps (Air & Water)
 
PROFFESIONAL BODIES
21. Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineers (CIPHE)
22. Registered Plumber (RP)
23. Association of Plumbing & Heating Engineers (APHC)
24. Gas Safe Register
25. Energy Savings Trust
 
REGULATORY BODIES
26. Building Regulations
27. Local authority Building Control Services
28. Water Regulations
29. Gas Regulations
 
NOTES
30. * Notifiable to the local authority
31. **Notifiable to the Gas Safe Register
32.  Anyone may conduct work on your plumbing and heating, but if done so incorrectly, may be breaching Building/Local Authority/Water Regulations. 
33. Only those engineers on the Gas Safety Register may conduct natural gas work – It is the law.
34. Engineers may belong to professional bodies, but must conform to Regulatory bodies.
35. CORGI continues to offer many services including various competency skills however they are no longer the regulatory body which governs gas safety in the UK.