When building your own home or having reconstruction work done it is tempting to find the cheapest engineer possible to put in your gas and heating piping and electrical systems. While keeping cost effective it is important to remember to make sure that the engineer you hire is properly certified and backed by the right organizations. No matter what a person's budget, it is of highest importance that the engineer hired is registered with Corgi.

When building your own home or having reconstruction work done it is tempting to find the cheapest engineer possible to put in your gas and heating piping and electrical systems. While keeping cost effective it is important to remember to make sure that the engineer you hire is properly certified and backed by the right organizations. No matter what a person's budget, it is of highest importance that the engineer hired is registered with Corgi. 

The sad fact is that there are a lot of people out there posing as professionally certified Corgi engineers and doing shoddy work that does not get discovered until the final home inspection is completed. These engineers lie to United Kingdom residents about their experience and knowledge and registrations. Some of these impostors even go as far as to create falsified Corgi identification numbers and registration badges to try to convince potential clients of their legitimacy.

The most notorious engineer impostor to make the recent news is David Mees. Mees made news all over the United Kingdom when one of his clients discovered his extremely shoddy and dangerous work during a final home inspection and discovered that not only was he not Corgi certified but that the clients' home could not pass inspection until a real Corgi inspector had redone the work. Mees had even advertised in the local telephone directory with a fake Corgi identification number!

What is worse is that most of the work done by Mees (whose prices were not cheap) is shoddy and dangerous. In one home his work was so poorly completed that should the tenants have attempted to operate their gas and heating systems, they could have destroyed their home and risked injuring themselves!

Gas and heating systems are volatile and it is important that they be properly installed and that their wiring is up to code. Corgi engineers are required to keep up to date on local electrical codes and standard engineering practices. The best way to make sure that your engineer is registered with Corgi is to simply call the organization and double check your prospective engineer's status. This can be done by dialling 0800 915 0485. 

Remodellers and Renovators should also check each potential engineer with their local business bureaus. Make sure that no complaints have been filed against each person you are thinking of hiring. Asking potential engineers for a work history and list of references is also a good idea. Any engineer who hesitates or does not comply with these requests is probably not worth hiring.

Gas and heating systems, when not properly installed, can cause great harm to both a home's structural integrity and the health of the people who live in it!