Non Licensed plumber working on gas water heater?
I just recently was fired from a plumbing and heating company and I am suing them for some other reasons. I was doing some research on the CT state labor site and I was searching the licenses and found that half of the techs we have are not licensed. I found one plumber who has no license and has worked on gas water heaters in the past. Is there anyway I can use this to get them in trouble? The company by the way, treats its employees very badly and overcharges the customers way too much.
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I practice in Florida, not Connecticut, but I think that in most states only people with a license to work on LP lines can touch a gas line. While plumbers may understand "lines" their work sometimes has lethal results. I worked on a case where a well meaning plumber took out a woman's gas hot water tank (thinking it was the only gas appliance in the house) and replaced it with an electric one, at the customer's request. A week later the woman's stove would not ignite b/c the plumber (thinking there were no more gas lines in the house) turned off the gas at the tank and crimped the gas line to the hot water heater shut (or almost shut.) The lady goes out to the tank, turns her gas tank back on, gets her cake mix out, bends in her stove to light her pilot light and kaboom! The entire mobile home exploded and she went airborne, ending up in a yard of a home about 1/2 mile from her own. If that is the case in CT, working on LP lines w/o a permit can get them into big trouble. Instead of bad mouthing your old employer though why not go work for the competition and do good work for fair prices. The customers will follow.
Only the boss or supervisor needs a Lisc. and he has to sing off on all work his/her employees do.sorry but thats the law...
Just report it to who ever regulates such things in your state.
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