As a landlord, you're legally responsible for the health and safety of your tenants. You must ensure the safety of all appliances & flues in any occupied residential properties. You must ensure that all appliances work safely, correctly and without the risk of the dangers of carbon monoxide.
Please contact us for annual inspection surveys and associated certificates for your rental property portfolio.
- If you are a landlord (letting a room or a property) to residential tenants, it is your responsibility, every year, to ensure you have proof that your property meets the regulations governing gas safety.
- For copies of the Gas Safety (Installations & Use) Regulations 1998 visit www.HMSO.gov.uk
- By law, landlords must have gas appliances in properties they let checked for safety every 12 months by a CORGI-registered engineer.
- They should also hold a Gas Safety Record as proof and give copies to each tenant when they move into the property and after every inspection. The Record should detail for each gas appliance, the date of inspection, any defects found and remedial action taken.
- Failure to comply is a criminal offence and could result in severe penalties if an incident occurred.
- It’s down to you to gain access to the property to get the safety checks done. If you have difficulty getting access, then make sure you keep a record to show that you’ve tried everything in your power to get the safety check carried out.
- We recommend that a maintenance contract for gas appliances is taken out in addition to the annual check. For further information please contact us.
- We also recommend that you fit carbon monoxide detectors. These should be of the audible British Standard approved type which have a battery life of up to 5 years. Fit them in each room with a gas appliance.
- In bedrooms and bathrooms all gas appliances must be of the room-sealed type, which means that potentially deadly carbon monoxide fumes could not escape into the room.
- All tenants should be told where the gas meter is located and told how they can turn it off in the event of a gas leak.
- They should also be provided with the number of Transco’s 24 hour emergency service in case of gas leaks – 0800 111999.
