This is a legal obligation with dates attached, and most of the trouble landlords get into with it is calendar trouble rather than appliance trouble.
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Landlords need a current gas safety record for every let property.
Boiler, hob, fire and pipework all checked on the same visit.
The record your tenant must receive, ready to pass on.
The visit is arranged around whoever is living there.
Every gas appliance and flue in a rented property has to be checked for safety once every twelve months by a registered engineer, and a record of that check has to be issued. The record is still universally called a CP12, after the old form number. A copy goes to the existing tenant within 28 days of the check, and to a new tenant at the start of the tenancy, before they move in. Records are kept for two years.
The duty covers appliances the landlord owns and the pipework and flues serving them. A tenant's own cooker is the tenant's appliance, but the installation it connects to is still the landlord's responsibility.
Gas Safety Certificate is priced after the job has been seen, anywhere in the areas we cover. Send the postcode and a few lines about what it is doing when you contact us, and the answer comes back in writing.
A check can be carried out up to two months before the current record expires without shortening the cycle, so the new certificate still runs from the old expiry date rather than from the day of the visit. That is the one piece of the rules worth knowing, because booking early costs a landlord nothing and a lapsed record is a breach even by a day.
Every gas appliance in turn: gas rate against the manufacturer figure, combustion readings, the integrity of the case seals, ventilation to the room, the flue along its length and at its terminal, and the safety devices. Then the pipework, with a tightness test at the meter. Each appliance is recorded individually with a pass or a specified defect.
A defect gets a classification. Immediately Dangerous means the appliance is disconnected and labelled there and then, with your permission or without it if the risk warrants, and the gas emergency service is notified. At Risk means it is turned off and labelled until the fault is corrected. Not to Current Standards is recorded as advisory and does not stop the appliance being used. The record names the classification, so you know which of the three you are dealing with and what has to happen before the property can be let.
A portfolio is a scheduling problem more than anything else. Send the addresses and the expiry dates and they can be grouped into visits, which is both cheaper and much harder to let slip.
The postcode, the gas appliances in the property, when the current record runs out, and how to reach the tenant.
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