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Gas in Multi Occupancy Buildings

• IGEM/G/5 Edition 2, IGE/UP/2 & BS6891 2015

Appliances

Network Pipelines

Installation Pipework

Multi Occupancy Building?

Appliances

• Boilers

• Cookers

• Fires

• Appliances should be fitted by a Registered Gas Engineer and a commissioning certificate obtained

• Second hand cookers must have the manufacturers instructions with them

• Appliances should be serviced annually

• Cooking appliances in multi occupancy dwellings must have flame protection on all burners

• Free standing cookers must have a stability bracket or a chain

Tenants Cooking Appliances (TB 015)

Network Pipelines

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Meter Siting

Meter Rooms

Meter Rooms

Network Pipelines

Installation Pipework

Installation Pipework

Remember, pipework volume over 0.035m3 is outside scope of domestic ACS for tightness testing

E6 meter + 27 metres (10% fittings) of 32mm tracpipe is outside domestic tightness test

Installation Pipework

Installation Pipework

Installation Pipework• BS6891 2015

Any pipework carrying gas in, or passing through, a protected area shall be:

Steel with screwed jointsSteel with welded jointsContinuous length of copper (no joints)Continuous length of CSST to BS EN 1775

Installation Pipework

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