Services and Landlords Certificates

The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations (GSIUR), place duties on landlords and their managing agents in “ relevant premises” in the private and public sectors, to ensure that all gas installation pipework, gas appliances and flue systems owned by them, are maintained in a safe condition. This duty was placed on landlords/managing agents to protect tenants from suffering due to faulty and poorly maintained gas appliances.

The duties of the landlord also extend to appliances. e.g. central heating boilers, where the appliance is located remotely from residential areas but provides heat to the residential areas of the property. This applies even though the tenant may not have access to the appliance or flue. Areas such as bars, restaurants or sitting rooms in a hotel would also be covered if these were served by, for example, a gas fire for the residence’s benefit.

Approved Servicing Safety Checks

When instructed by a landlord/managing agent to carry out a landlord’s gas safety record check, our operatives need to produce a record of the check which includes items 1 to 9 as follows:

• The date on which the pipework, appliance or flue was checked.
• The address of the premises at which the pipework, appliance or flue was installed.
• The name and address of the landlord (or, where appropriate, managing agent) of the premises at which the pipework, appliance or flue was installed.
• Location details and a description of each appliance or flue checked.
• Any defect identified.
• Any remedial action taken.
• Confirmation that the check undertaken complies with the requirements of the GSIUR, which state, “where a person performs work on a gas appliance, he shall immediately thereafter examine:
• The effectiveness of any flue
• The supply of combustion air
• Its operating pressure or heat input or, where necessary, both
• Its operation so as to ensure its safe functioning”
• The name and signature of the individual carrying out the check.
• The CORGI registration number of the individual, or their employer.

If you would like any furtherinformation regarding Landlords Certificates then please call our head office and we would be more than happy to help.