Renting out property, be it residential or commercial isn’t an easy task. A lot of requirements are needed to be fulfilled before a tenant can actually sign the contract. One of these include the landlord gas safety duties.
What are Landlord Gas Safety Duties?
Landlord Responsibilities for Gas Safety: Ensuring Tenant Protection: Which is why the safety of tenants is an utmost priority, and is to be ensured by the landlord. Legally, the landlord is responsible for:
• Maintenance, repair and servicing of the central gas pipework and all gas-powered appliances
• Ensuring that an annual gas safety check is carried out for all gas appliances, including flues
• Keeping a record of each safety check, including updated Gas Safety Certificates
What is a Gas Safety Certificate?
Gas Safety Certificate is a legal document ensuring that the gas framework of your property, including all gas-powered appliances, installations and flues are working top-notch and are safe to use.
This is important as we saw above, that any untimely fault or unchecked gas leak can result in a catastrophic situation, with devastating effects. Not only does this damage extend to cause financial loss, the grim circumstances also include medical emergencies and even death.
The gas safety certificate is a legal document, which means that the government of UK requires you to have it. It is the responsibility of the landlord to provide the tenant with a valid gas safety certificate before they move in.
What to Do Next?
As a landlord, by now you are well aware of your responsibilities including landlord gas safety duties. In case you haven’t had a gas safety check carried out recently or don’t have a valid gas safety certificate. It is time to get all this work done.
The next question that would have popped up is, where to get this all done? Well look no further as we at Landlord Safety Certificates London provide all plumbing and heating services, including gas work at the hands of highly qualified Gas Safe Registered Engineers . All from the comfort of your very own home.
Gas Safe Registered Engineers
Gas Safe Registered Engineers are highly trained and experienced professionals who have been authorized to run an inspection of the gas framework of your property. This includes checking the gas pipework, appliances and flues and making sure that they are capable of operating safely.
After completing the inspection, they will issue you a gas safety certificate, provided your property met the gas safety criteria.
Why Choose Us?
With so many plumbing services available in the market, you may be wondering why choose Landlord Safety Certificates London. This is because we provide the following services using state-of-the-art technology to ensure customer service and satisfaction.
• We are a team of experts, highly qualified and skilled professionals
• Our team has gas safe registered engineers so you know that your work is in safe hands
• We provide round the clock service to combat with any untimely fault or repair
• We have up-front pricing with no hidden fees or charges
• We deal with commercial as well as residential services
• We also have Emergency services often delivered in less than 30 minutes
• Apart from installation of various devices, we also deal with maintenance, servicing and repair
With so many plumbing services available simultaneously at one place, we doubt there remains any confusion. So the next time you plan to have an annual gas safety check or plan to rent out property, call us and we will resolve all your plumbing and gas safety concerns.