Safe electrics: The hidden dangers
With the growing prevalence and importance of electrics in modern gas boilers, electrical safety has become a hot topic in the heating industry. Neil Macdonald, technical manager at the HHIC, looks further at considerations that need to be made.
Shower specification checklist for council housing
Tina Simpson at Triton Showers offers a five-point checklist of all the things which should be considered when choosing a shower to help achieve the perfect fit.
Texts to Band of Builders’ helpline have doubled
Band of Builders has reported there has been a 105.5% jump in messages to its text line in the last three months
CIPHE renews calls for compulsory thermostatic mixing valves
The Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) has renewed calls for the government to change its legislation surrounding thermostatic mixing valves on the back of latest admissions data
Gas fitter sentenced for incompetent installation of a boiler…
…leaving tenant poisoned by carbon monoxide
Triton Showers supports safety alert on start/stop-button showerheads
Triton Showers has supported the call for third party suppliers of start/stop-button showerheads to provide clear warnings about their use with instantaneous electric showers
Intergas offers solution amid flue review
Intergas has commented on an amendment to Building Regulations making plastic boiler flues non-compliant in high-rise buildings
New guide on differing UK CO detector requirements
The HHIC and CoGDEM have launched a guide on carbon monoxide (CO) detector requirements across the UK
Coronavirus crisis: CIPHE issues guidance for trade
Guidance has been released from the CIPHE in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Grandparents could be overestimating gas-safety savviness, research reveals
New Gas Safe Register research has revealed grandparents could be inadvertently endangering their grandchildren