Validity Period of Steam Test Cert

[peterseager]

The Blue Book goes into detail about the Hydraulic Certificate but there are no requirements relating to issuing the Steam Certificate.

Section 10 states that the Annual Examination and Steam Test shall be carried out "at intervals not exceeding fourteen months".

Our club started by making the certificate valid for a year but then realized that you have a problem in that the Steam test can gradually work forward until you have a short period between a Steam Test and the next Hydraulic test. We regard the expiry date of the Steam Test Cert as just that, no period of grace. We now make the Steam Cert valid for fourteen months or the next Hydraulic test, whichever is sooner.

Talking to member of another club, it seems they treat the Steam Cert like an MOT Cert. If you have the test done up to two months early the new cert runs for a year after your old cert expires.

What do other clubs do? It seems to me that the procedure should be included in the Blue Book.

Peter

[GeorgeRay]

Since the Blue book says that the the test shall be carried out at intervals not exceding 14 months the Andover Society do the same as you and use 14 months as the period for which the certificate is valid or the expiry of the hydraulic cert. There would be no point in saying that the exam and steam test shall be carried out at intervals not exceding 14 months otherwise.

[ejparrott]

Rugby uses 12-months or Hydraulic expiry date, with the inspectors discretion to extend the certificate to 14 months.

[maunsell]

My club does the same as Guildford, that is we do not issue a Cold Examination & Steam test certificate with a validity which extends beyond the hydraulic test certificate expiry date. I think a practical and sensible practice.
Whether one has a twelve or fourteen month validity is not important. The normal industrial practice is for statutory examination certificates to have a fourteen month validity.

[peterseager]

we do not issue a Cold Examination & Steam test certificate with a validity which extends beyond the hydraulic test certificate expiry date.

This point is not in doubt because the Blue Book specifies this as the way to do it.

Peter