Landlord Gas Responsibilities
landlords are responsible for their properties and have a duty of care to their tenants.
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Our engineers are all highly experienced and registered with Gas Safe. They carry a wealth of experience in dealing with landlord annual gas safety inspections, CP12, boiler repairs and boiler replacements in the Glasgow area.
A landlord is anyone who rents out a property, such as residential dwelling, room to let or rental holiday accommodation that is subject to lease or license agreement. You may be classified as a short-term landlord, long term landlord or a lettings and management agent depending on the length and type of rental you are providing.
What are your landlord gas safety responsibilities?
The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 (GSIUR) outline your duties as a landlord to make sure all gas appliances, fittings, chimneys and flues are safe and working efficiently. If you’re letting a property with gas appliances installed, you’ve got three main legal responsibilities:
1. Gas safety checks
To ensure your tenants’ safety, all gas appliances and flues need to undergo an annual gas safety check – which should always be carried out by a suitably qualified Gas Safe registered engineer. Energy Certificates Scotland will give you a Landlord Gas Safety Record (LGSR) with details of all the checks that were carried out.
You can arrange with Energy Certificates Scotland to have your annual Gas inspection carried out any time from 10-12 months after the last completed check, without affecting the original expected expiry date. If it’s less than 10 months or more than 12 months after the last check, you’ll end up with a new deadline date 12 months from the most recent check .
Appliances owned by your tenants aren’t your direct responsibility – although it’s still up to you to ensure the safety of any connecting flues, unless they’re solely connected to the tenants’ appliance.
2. Gas Safety Record
Following the annual gas safety check and receipt of your Landlord Gas Safety Record, you’ll need to provide a record of this check to your tenants. By law, a copy of your Landlord Gas Safety Record should be given to your current tenants within 28 days of the gas safety check – and for new tenants, you’ll need to provide this at the start of their tenancy.
For rental periods of less than 28 days, just make sure you’ve clearly displayed a copy of your gas safety record within the property. You’ll need to keep copies of this gas safety check record until a further two checks have been carried out.
3. Maintenance
When one of our engineers from Energy Certificates Scotland visits your property we will make sure that all gas pipework, appliances, chimneys and flues are kept in safe condition. Check the gas appliances’ manufacturer guidelines to find out how often a service is recommended. If you haven’t got access to these, we’d recommend an annual service
Gas pipework check recommendation
Our engineers from Energy Certificates Scotland will carry out these safety checks for you as part of the landlord CP12 inspection.
Test for tightness on the whole gas system, including installation pipework
Visually examine the pipework (so far as is reasonably practicable)
There are no formal requirements for you to keep maintenance records, but you’ll need to be able to show that you have regularly maintained the pipework, appliances and flues and completed required repairs.
Our engineers at Energy Certificates Scotland can also carry out boiler servicing and emergency call outs for gas leaks, boiler breakdowns.
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