Gas Safety Certificate
What is Gas Safety Record?
A Gas Safety Record is the documentation that may be given to you by a gas engineer after they have done gas work at your property. The documentation provided will often depend on the type of work they have undertaken - be it a service or a safety check.
While all gas engineers are required by law to be on the Gas Safe Register, it is not a legal requirement for them to provide Gas Safety Record documentation after they visit you. There is one exception, and that is if you are a landlord.
Landlord Gas Safety Record: the Low Down
As a landlord letting a residential property, you have a legal duty to ensure it is safe for your tenants. Which means that you are required as per the law to achieve from an Gas Safety Registered Engineer for doing the yearly Gas Safety check-up on all the gas appliances and it will give the results for these checks which will be recorded at your Landlord Gas Safety
Record.
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You will receive a copy, and you will need to provide a record of this check to your tenants. In your record, you should find:
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Get the brief Description and Location of each appliance or flue which will be checked
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The name, registration number and signature of the engineer who made the checks
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The date the checks were carried out
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The address of the property where the appliances or flues are installed
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Your name and address (or an agent’s where applicable)
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Get the Information on any safety defects & actions needed or taken to fix them
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Know the actual results of all operational safety checks carried out on the appliances
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The connection given gas pipework at your rented home should kept at a secured and safe condition. The Installation pipework will not be not covered from the annual gas safety check, although either of us and the HSE recommendation that when you will be requested for a safety check-up, you can also ask for your Gas Safe registered New Boiler Service
engineers with below given queries:
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Get the Test for tightness over the whole gas system which includes the installation pipework
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They visually examine the installed pipework
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When have plans to see the example of what will the Landlord Gas Safety Record will be looking for?
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Whether you are a landlord or a tenant, you will find lots more information on gas safety in rented accommodation in our
Renting A Property section.
I am not a landlord - what documentation can I expect?
If you are not a landlord, that does not necessarily mean you will not receive any documentation from your Gas Safe Registered Engineer. In fact, it is considered good practice for your engineer to provide you with some form of record, even if it is not as detailed as a Landlord’s Gas Safety Record.
It is a great idea to get in touch with your Gas Safe registered engineer before they visit your property, so you will know exactly what to expect from them.
Building the Regulations Compliance Certificate
You need to receive one of the best that a Gas Safety Registered Engineers love to install the heat producing Gas Appliance at your household installation. It will be in an effective style for the mode of giving information for the Local Authority for the new appliance, and you needs to receive over the post in the time of 28 days for a new appliance which will be installed. Check out more information on Building Regulations certificates.
If you require a duplicate Building Regulations Compliance Certificate you can do this online or call us on 0800 122 235 or feel free to mail info@newboilerservice.co.uk and chose option 6. There will be a charge for the duplicate certificates, which will be including additionally £6 + VAT.
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As the whole world effected with Corona Virus Pandemic with a result of latest COVID-19 restrictions which is badly affecting the ability of the registered engineers to renewal their gas safety qualifications, registrations which have been temporarily extended.
Finally, if your engineer’s visited ID Card shows a job category which will be having the expired on or from the month March 2020 and this kind of work will be due to be carried out at your property, kindly do check the engineers current registration status. You would also do the same by using our on-line Find and Check-up services.
Our documentation from the engineer leaves your home after finishing the fitting, serviced or safety checked up with an appliance will be dependent upon the purpose and different kind of work which will be taken out. The one and only documentation required by law will be the Landlord Gas Safety Record. It will have the details of the exact what will be checked with the engineer visited will be carried out with an appliance checked which meet the approximate safety standards. It is time to find out more information about Gas Safety Records at your property installation.