General Requirements; Preliminary Remarks; Related Documents - Vaillant ecoTEC exclusive 832 Installation And Maintenance Instructions Manual

3.4

General requirements

3.4.1

Preliminary remarks

This appliance must only be installed and commissioned
by a suitably competent person. Please check with your
installer that he is able to carry out all the necessary
works including official notification of the works to the
relevant body upon completion.
3.4.2

Related documents

The installation of the appliance and any associated hot
water system must be in accordance with (but not lim-
ited to) the following; COSHH regulations, Gas Safety
(Installation and Use) Regulations 1998, Health and
Safety Document No. 635 (The Electricity at Work Regu-
lations 1989), BS7671 (IEE Wiring Regulations) and the
Water Supply (Water Fitting) Regulations 1999, or The
Water Bylaws 2000 (Scotland). It should also be in
accordance with the relevant requirements of the Local
Authority, Building Regulations, The Building Regulations
(Scotland), The Building Regulations (Northern Ireland)
and the relevant recommendations of the following Brit-
ish Standards:
BS 6700: Services supplying water for domestic use
within buildings and their curtilages.
BS 6798: Specification for installation of gas fired boil-
ers not exceeding 60 kW input.
BS 6891: Specification for installation of low pressure
gas pipework up to 28 mm (R1) in domestic premises
(2nd family gas).
BS 7593: Treatment of water in domestic hot water cen-
tral heating systems.
Institute of Gas Engineers Publication IGE/UP/7/1998:
"Guide for gas installations in timber framed housing"
BS. 5482 Pt. 1 Domestic butane and propane gas burn-
ing installations.
IGE/UP1 Soundness testing and purging of industrial
and commercial gas installation.
IGE/UP2 Gas installation pipework, boosters and com-
pressors on industrial and commercial premises.
IGE/UP10 Installation of gas appliances in industrial and
commercial premises.
BS. 6644: Installation of gas fired hot water boilers of
rated inputs between 60 kW and 2 MW (2nd and 3rd
family gases).
BS. 5449: Forced circulation hot water central heating
systems for domestic premises. Note: only up to 45 kW.
BS. 6880: Low temperature hot water heating systems
of output greater than 45 kW.
Part 1 Fundamental and design considerations.
Part 2 Selection of equipment.
Part 3 Installation, commissioning and maintenance.
Installation and maintenance instructions ecoTEC exclusive 0020017768_07
BS. 4814: Specification for: Expansion vessels using an
internal diaphragm, for sealed hot water heating sys-
tems.
BS. 5440: Installation and maintenance of flues and
ventilation for gas appliances of rated input not exceed-
ing 70 kW net (1st, 2nd and 3rd family gases).
Part 1 Specification for installation of flues.
Part 2 Specification for installation and maintenance of
ventilation for gas appliances.
Safety 3
9