Let’s face facts; owning a property and renting this out to tenants can be a challenging (albeit rewarding) pastime.
After all, being a landlord brings a number of legal responsibilities, as you’re required to provide a safe property to tenants and ensure that all appliances are checked on a recurring basis.
The most important aspect of this is the gas safety check, which provides you with a certificate and proves that all gas appliances in the property conform to real-time safety standards. But what’s involved in this check, and why should you care as a landlord?
What’s a Gas Safety Check?
With a gas safety check, an accredited engineer must attend your property and perform a comprehensive inspection of its flues, fittings and appliances.
Whilst you’re only legally bound to inspect your appliances as a landlord, you should also consider checking those that belong to tenants. This will provide far greater peace of mind, whilst it also provides an added layer of protection for your investment.
But what’s included in the certificate? Well, this will include a description of each appliance and its location, along with any notes pertaining to faults and the measures that were taken to correct them.
This must also include a confirmation of results and the name of the engineer who carried out the inspection, as this creates a legally binding document for your records.
Why Have a Gas Safety Check Carried Out?
Unfortunately, many landlords fail to carry out a gas safety check annually, as they don’t always want to pay the fee charged by engineers.
However, this should be considered as money well spent, as it helps to protect your real estate investment over time. It also safeguards tenants, in the event that an appliance causes a fire or any other damage to the property.
A gas safety check will also help you to identify any issues with your flues, fittings or appliances quickly and efficiently, helping to negate the long-term cost of carrying out repairs.
Working with Chalmers Plumbing & Heating to Carry Out Your Gas Safety Check
If you live in Glasgow or a 20-mile radius, you can rest assured that Chalmers Plumbing & Heating is ready and waiting to carry out a gas safety check on your behalf.
After all, we have more than 15 years’ experience in delivering gas safety checks and other repairs, whilst all of our talented engineers are Gas Safe-registered and fully insured up to the value of £5 million.
We’ve also been verified by Expert Trades and Trusted Traders, so you can rely on us to provide a comprehensive gas safety check. To learn more about us and this service, give us a call on either 0141 374 0274 or 07580 020343.
