Even the electrician that found this and took the picture knew what was wrong  .. Shocker

Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/gasfitting/75/who-wants-to-sign-this-one-off/1702/

The Board will be too busy figuring out how to take the next lot of money off practitioners and chasing home handy men for changing toilet seats.

Have not reported it yet, now your making me curios I Might actually report it to see what the board does.

We did report one really bad job and I have to say I was impressed with the speed of the response.  We send a 9 page document to the Board showing photos, an indepth description of the installation, test results, a pic of the website of the guy who did the job, a lot of details on what we thought was wrong.  We sent it by email at about 7pm at night and the Board had someone on site by 9am the next morning.  A prosecution was taken against a non tradesman for the work and he was fined I think $3k but was already serving time in her Majesty's prison, so don't know if the fine was ever paid.  The customer in this case had paid top dollar for a job that was done by someone who was not a gasfitter but who was employed by a firm that advertise "panting, plastering, decorating, plumbing, gasfitting etc etc" you know the one stop shop - we do it all.  He had got a person from a temp agency who he said told him this guy was a gasfitter.

It is always worth reporting these things - while I don't agree with everything the PGDB does in regards to fees and their attitude to some things - we can't let work like this go unreported - it does our reputations no good - and quite frankly why should people get away with work like this?  It makes us all look shoddy.

What the Board want is details when you report - as much information as you can give - name, address, photos etc all help.

So what were the actual measurements from the window then?  Badger will blow a gasket when he reads this.

hi guys, yes Badger could it be a mate`s work,cheers

Here's an interesting thought. The first image above represents several issues, the Rinnai is too close to the window and the 9KG is obviously to close to a source of ignition (this was because the provider refused to install the bottles and reported the installation to the PGDB). I spoke to the electrician which in return spoke to the clients gasfitter and he says the installation complies pointing to the diagram on page 153 of NZBC 5261. He raised the appliance 500mm above the bottles which puts it outside the required clearance making it acceptable. Thoughts?

Nope the provider is not happy swapping the bottles, they pointed out that the Rinnai was to close to the bottles and window so the gas-fitter came back and lifted it up by 50mm into the "approved" zone. I'm not sure whether they are happy now. The 9KG is not strapped.