While this may not seem a big deal to some as it was not leaking gas. The facts are quite clear that the person who removed the gas fire was not registered so contravened the gas regulations and left an unsafe situation.

If a young child had turned the gas cock thing could have turned quite nasty with gas filling the room. I noticed this on doing a landlords safety inspection and noticed the open gas pipe. I did a soundness test due to the person turning the gas cock into the wall, this could have had a small gas leak. I then blanked off the gas cock which was deemed to be safe as a registered person would have done.

The owner of the property felt I was doing things above my remit as in their own words "the person last year never said anything when they did the inspection" Yes I said and they never serviced the boiler either which took me much longer than I would normally take.