If you are a landlord, you have a duty of care to your tenants and are responsible for the properties you let. Under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998, it is the duty of landlords to ensure all gas appliances are safe and working efficiently. As part of this, it is a legal requirement for landlords to ensure a Gas Safe registered heating engineer carries out a gas safety check every year. These checks come with landlord gas certificates (CP12).
If you own a rental property in Worthing or the surrounding areas, you can rely on Dean Widdows Ltd for full safety checks and certificates. We help you uphold your legal obligations and keep both tenants and properties safe.
We understand that landlords often have busy schedules and multiple houses/tenants to look after, which is why we aim to make gas safety checks as hassle-free as possible. We can arrange checks at the earliest opportunity and at a convenient time for you and/or your tenants. If you are looking to move a new tenant in, our professional service ensures they can be in the house as soon as possible.
Please contact us to arrange a gas safety check and obtain a certificate.
You must arrange for a qualified heating engineer to check all gas appliances and flues at least once every year. If there is a change of tenancy, you must carry out another check before the new tenant moves in, no matter how long it has been since the last one.
Once gas safety checks are complete, we provide landlord gas certificates, known as Landlord Gas Safety Records (LGSRs) and previously called CP12 certificates.
A gas safety check carried out by our engineers in Worthing may include:
It is worth noting that appliances owned by your tenants are not your direct responsibility.
Dean Widdows will provide a Landlord Gas Safety Record – you must provide your tenants with a copy of this record within 28 days of the gas safety check. Alternatively, you must give any new tenants a copy of the record before they move in.
You need to keep copies of landlord gas certificates until a further two safety checks have been carried out.
The safety record/certificate contains details such as the appliances tested, whether checks were a pass or fail and any identified defects. Where necessary, our heating engineers in Worthing can carry out remedial work to ensure gas appliances are safe and effective. We are highly skilled in all boiler repairs and central heating repairs.
