Gas Safety Inspections for Landlords

If you are a landlords you have a legal responsibility to ensure that any gas appliances that your tenants use are safe and covered by a gas safety certificate.

You must make sure that pipe work, appliances and flues provided for tenants are maintained in a safe condition and a gas safety inspection needs to be carried out every year.

This has been a legal requirement since 1996, but it is very good practice to make sure that your own appliances are safe and regularly monitored.

RCB Plumbing are Gas Safe Registered and our qualified engineers will check all the gas appliances in your home your office or your rental properties every 12 months and give you copies of the gas safety records. We will also provide a copy certificate for
your tenants.

Our Gas Safe inspections include the following…

A gas safety check requires us to inspect your gas appliances, and we undertake the following four tests. We check that …

Gas appliances are on the right setting and burning correctly with the correct operating pressure
Harmful gases are being removed from the appliance safely to the air outside
That any ventilation routes are clear and working properly
All the safety devices are working

The check will identify any defects which require remedial work.