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Corgi - Now Gas Safe

Website www.gassaferegister.co.uk

Gas Safe Register replaced the CORGI gas register in Great Britain and the Isle of Man on 1 April 2009

With over 30 years experience, CORGI is considered the leading authority for information on gas safety issues around the home. Today, CORGI also provides information and support for other trades including plumbing and electrical work.

CORGI was founded in 1970 to protect the public from the dangers of unsafe gas installations. They are acutely aware that poorly trained tradesmen can give the industry as a whole a bad name and bad experiences can make people extremely wary when it comes to employing someone to install or repair a gas appliance.

Read the CORGI Customer Charter to understand the service CORGI provides.

By maintaining an up-to-date register of qualified gas installers and other trades people, CORGI set out to promote the core values of professional service and high standards in safety. Consequently, the CORGI badge is now a guarantee of quality, making it the standard to look for when employing a tradesman.

In recent years, registration has become a legal requirement for anyone installing or repairing gas fittings or appliances. So, you can be sure that any work completed by a CORGI technician will be done competently and safely.

Text adapted from www.trustcorgi.com

FMB (Federation of Master Builders)

Website www.fmb.org.uk

The FMB is the sign of building quality. As the building industry’s largest trade organisation, representing over 13,000 small and medium sized builders, the Federation of Master Builders promotes standards of excellence and helps its members to continually improve levels of business performance and customer service.

FMB builders are quality, experienced builders who have been vetted by the membership process.
Text adapted from www.fmb.org.uk

FENSA

Website www.fensa.co.uk

FENSA stands for the Fenestration Self-Assessment Scheme. It has been set up by the Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) and other industry bodies with Government encouragement in response to the current Building Regulations for England and Wales.

When having windows and doors replaced homeowners must comply with current thermal performance standards and ensure that they get a certificate of compliance from FENSA or from Local Authority Building Control. FENSA also enables companies that install replacement windows and doors to self certify compliance under these Building Regulations.

The FENSA standard is the industry standard for self replacement window and door installers self certifying compliance with the building regulations.

Text adapted from www.fensa.co.uk

NHBC

Website www.nhbc.co.uk

NHBC, (the National House-Building Council), is the standard setting body and leading warranty and insurance provider for new and newly converted homes in the UK. Their role is to work with the house-building and wider construction industry to provide risk management services that raise the standards of new homes, and to provide consumer protection to new home buyers.

There are approximately 20,500 house builders and developers on NHBC's Register (known as registered builders or registered developers), who agree to comply with our Rules and Standards when building new homes.

More than 80% of new homes built in the UK each year are registered with NHBC and benefit from our 10-year warranty and insurance policy called 'Buildmark'. Around 1.7 million homeowners are currently covered by Buildmark policies, and over the past 40 years, NHBC has protected more than 30% of existing homes in the UK.

Text adapted from www.nhbc.co.uk

NICEIC

Website www.niceic.org.uk

NICEIC is the electrical contracting industry’s independent voluntary body for electrical installation matters throughout the UK.

NICEIC acts as the electrical contracting industry’s independent voluntary regulatory body for electrical installation safety matters throughout the UK. They offer industry-leading certification services, Building Regulations Schemes, products and support to electrical contractors and many other trades within the construction industry.

It maintains and publishes registers of electrical contractors that have been assessed against Scheme requirements, including the national electrical safety standard BS 7671, the IEE Wiring Regulations.

The registers NICEIC maintains and publishes include the national Roll of Approved Contractors (established in 1956), and the Register of Domestic Installers.

Text adapted from www.niceic.org.uk

Trading Standards

Trading Standards Central is an online source for consumer protection information in the UK. The site is supported and maintained by TSI, the Trading Standards Institute.

This site provides a wealth of information for consumers and businesses, schools, advice and information centres, community organisations, local councils, business support agencies and trade associations.

You can locate your local trading standards service to ask for advice and information on their website by simply entering your postcode.

Text adapted from www.tradingstandards.gov.uk

Energy Saving Trust

Website http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk

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