Regulation 26.9 Gas Engineer Safety Checks | NGCFE

Regulation 26.9 is a section of the Gas Safety Installation and Use Regulations that provides guidance on what checks an engineer should carry out when working on an appliance. The regulation states the following.
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“(8) No person carrying out work in relation to a gas appliance which bears an indication that it so conforms shall remove or deface the indication.

(9) Where a person performs work on a gas appliance he shall immediately thereafter examine –

(a) the effectiveness of any flue;
(b) the supply of combustion air;
(c) subject to sub-paragraph (ca), its operating pressure or heat input or, where necessary, both;
(ca) if it is not reasonably practicable to examine its operating pressure or heat input (or, where necessary, both), its combustion performance;1
(d) its operation so as to ensure its safe functioning,

and forthwith take all reasonably practicable steps to notify any defect to the responsible person and, where different, the owner of the premises in which the appliance is situated or, where neither is reasonably practicable, in the case of an appliance supplied with liquefied petroleum gas, the supplier of gas to the appliance, or, in any other case, the transporter.”
The checks can be easily remembered using the abbreviation FAGS, which stands for flue, air, gas and safety devices.
These checks must be carried out as a minimum when working on an appliance.

[robwoods]

Great presentation. Should have the customers watching this. Especially the penny pinching landlords.

[jamstar]

I really enjoy this type of videos, good job guys

[raul]

SUGGESTION: Gas fires. How to recognise the different types. To this day, I don't really know if I'm looking at a radiant, dfe, inset or whatever else.
Fires are my Achilles heel Lol.

[edmetcalfe]

What would be really useful is a video explaining how to proceed if the gas rate is not within -10% and +5%. A lot of these gas courses cover how to gas rate but don’t really go into how to classify when it’s not within tolerance and also how to rectify.

[thegasmanajay]

Flue integrity O2 > 20.8% test ? Would have thought that would be included to confirm integrity of flue seals etc (integrity is not just the visual physical condition of the flue) - just curious (not knobby know it all)

[sergiofernandez]

Have you seen that some manufactures of boilers are stating the type of circuit breaker that is needed? I saw on a recent discussion board that a type B was needed? It also went on to state that they recommend a SPD (surge Protection Device) in the fusebox/fuseboard/CU to protect the sensitive equipment on the PCB of the boiler

[tommyblackman]

Great video..

Can how about a video on gas fires on 26.9 checks

[KS-weov]

Yesss Allen done and dusted...but great video to learn from 🙏

[hvacgas]

Good video.👍...when you gas rate cooker, do the oven and grill have to be switched on as well?

[JoanneArmitage-vx]

How often should a gas hose at the back of a cooker be changed?

[jockster]

Great video thanks for your efforts lads ..

[theswedishjourney]

Great video but you ideally want to spray LDF generously around the isolation tap of the gas under boiler once disturbed, not just the isolation screw. When disturbing the ECV by moving it also wanna spray around the handle, spray the anaconda and the two nuts in and out of the meter for peace of mind. Great video tho, nice and informative.

Video suggestion would be safe electrical isolation, safe to touch test and checking the polarities etc on the boiler and the house. Many a time do I have a chat with engineers and they just don't do it. An idea mate :)

Checking the voltages across live and switch live on diverter valves is another idea mate, allowing newcomers to establish correct functioning (or incorrect) of the switch itself.

[milkman]

didnt check your analyser for O2 before testing the boiler. and then no flue integrity was done either.

[xudongpeng]

Can I ask If the gas rate I got lower than manufactory book how can I do thanks.

[davidhallas]

why didn’t he start gas rate test at the rite point on the gas meter ?

[theplumber]

Can you clarify the 5% above and 10% under as TB 141 states that under BS297 & BS EN 483 the 5% and 10% are tolerances during manufacture of the appliance for CE approval. However there is no specific tolerance stated anywhere that is applicable to gas rating at the time of commission or servicing. I think this is possibly a rule that has got mixed up as it has been past down from person to person since 2012 when it came out.... Thanks

[Ash-fymn]

It’s a shame these rules only apply to certain engineers, national gas supplier contractors exempt according to Gas Safe! How does that work? One rule for us and another for them, surely NG has the same risk whoever works on it? No wonder people leave this trade.

[maximuswong]

Allen, PLEASE PLEASE do i video on regulation 26.2 nobody talks about this regulation.

[kevj]

11.50 :- 3 burners on a hob to Gas Rate ? is'nt 3 burners on a hob to check for working/operating pressure?

[Ibrahim-vttz]

Good video very educational obviously lots of content about cheques for boilers as a gas engineers and gas safety books you know it was so much content to be honest with you it was talking about if you look combash and operation you know the safe functioning of appliances obviously here we talking about the boiler inlet working pressure 18 millibar whatever he was chatting about also the gas rating I think the metre was Imperial And it just timed it for one minute and with the formula that he's got you know 2nd per hour time the 1040 divide the second of the you know revolution For a minute full revolution it was good you know I mean for me it was very educational and I understand the lot it talked about supervision device FSD Flame Supervision device you know and so they called that 26.9 obviously is more cheques in it like checking the themistar
checking the divert valve checking the pump checking condensing trap checking the perhaps PCB checking the PRV checking you know in and out the visual cheques and also tidying up the older connexion you know because boiler working and vibrating so it loses the connexion so plug them back in again you know all the connexions is good this video was good I wanna say thank you it was very educational It's not easy to be a guest engineer be honest with you It required lots of training lots of study lots of experience The very dangerous job and a skill so also I remember talking about ventilation adventacious part as well so a lot of things to take on be honest with you when you're doing a 26.9 cheque and you know I suppose tightness test as well it should be part of it i'm not sure because it connects to the metre and then you need to see if there is any leaks or not so you have to do a tightness test so it's a lots of you know a study and lots of the material and information to take in but once you do it all the time it become like second nature you don't really think about all these steps once you enter the anywhere you're looking at boiler it's just your eyes automatically everything is just observing all these points and obviously also do the analysing you know combustion analyse cheque the ratio carbon monoxide everything also need to look at the data batch of the boiler how many kilowatts it is what kind of boiler it is and the electrical electrical is also part of it because you need to cheque the cables they are flexible fire rated and correct size terminated well installed well and fuse connexion you need 13 amp fuse all these things I think are part of the checking but it's more about safety but 26.9 I suppose is more to do with technical part of the boiler and installation so pipe works boiler metre regulator and installation you know however thank you very much for this information I really appreciate it