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Health
and Safety – Gas Annual safety check:
Under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use)
Regulations 1998 all gas appliances and flues in rented accommodation must be
checked for safety within 12 months of being installed, and thereafter at least
every 12 months by a registered Gas Safe engineer.
You
have a duty as a Landlord to ensure that all gas appliances, flues and
associated pipe work are maintained in a safe condition at all times. You must keep full records for at least two
years of the inspections of each appliance and flue and of any defects found with
a note of remedial action taken.
A copy of the safety certificate issued by
the engineer must be given to each new tenant before their tenancy commences,
or to each existing tenant within 28 days of the check being carried out.
If you have a change of tenancy, even if the last
gas safety certificate is still valid, you need to ensure that gas fittings and
appliances are safe before re-letting. Tenants may have removed appliances
unsafely (e.g leaving open-ended pipes, having shut off the emergency control
valve), or left their appliances in place. Appropriate checks should be carried
out and any unsafe equipment rectified or removed before a new tenancy begins.
As you have a duty of care to inspect the appliances, flues and associated pipe
work again my best advice would be to have a new Gas Safety certificate completed,
commonly known as a “Void” certificate, by a Gas Safe engineer and this will ensure
that all is as it should be and legal for the new tenants.
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I have been in and around the Hertfordshire property market for over 25 years, starting as an estate agent in the county town of Hertford and now running a successful lettings and property management company based in Stanstead Abbotts. I have let and managed property all over Hertfordshire from the area that I currently work to Wheathampstead where I owned and managed a lettings & estate agents to Watford and surrounding areas where my company acted as a marketing agent for one of the largest property management companies in the country”
Adrian Fallart - Director - Property File
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