Gas Safety Certificates in Kenton

The cylinder is not a gas appliance. The record covers the boiler that heats it, along with its flue. Stored hot water does raise a separate legionella question, and many Kenton houses have it, so we can arrange a written legionella assessment at the same appointment if you want one.

It depends which side of the system the fault is on. Whatever is found is written on the record, and an immediately dangerous appliance is disconnected with your permission before the engineer leaves. A fault on the boiler, its pump or another gas appliance goes to a Gas Safe registered heating engineer, since we do not repair boilers or gas appliances, and you have the record that day to pass on. A leaking radiator, a stuck valve or other water-side fault is plumbing, quoted at our hourly rate with an estimate, and it can often be done on the same visit so the tenant only gives access once.

The fixed price is set by how many gas appliances go on the record. A Kenton West semi can have a regular boiler, a gas hob and perhaps a gas fire, each tested and written up separately. Purpose-built flats are commoner in Preston than in any other Kenton ward, making up 36.7% of its households in 2021, and many of them run on a single combi. Tell us what is fitted when you ring, and the price is confirmed before booking.

Send the current Landlord Gas Safety Record for the property, dated within the last twelve months, and the installation certificate too if the boiler was fitted less than a year ago. Brent's selective licence conditions give 14 days to produce it once requested. If the record has run out, book a check at once and tell the council the date rather than sending nothing.

No, not if it belongs to the tenant and they are entitled to take it with them. You are responsible for the appliances and flues you supply and for the installation pipework, including the pipe that feeds the tenant's cooker. The engineer checks the pipework and notes the tenant's appliance, and if it looks unsafe, will say so. Clarify ownership of any appliance left behind before you re-let.

Only where you supply a gas appliance or flue, but in Kenton most lets do. At the 2021 Census, mains gas was the only type of central heating for 86.1% of households in Kenton West and 80.1% in Kenton East, against 70.5% across London, and Preston was closest to the London figure at 70.9%. If a flat is all electric and the gas is capped at the meter, there is no appliance to check, though the EICR is still needed.

No. The record shows that the appliances, flues and pipework are safe, not that the house is warm enough. Brent's HMO conditions and Harrow's HMO standards both want fixed heating, with controls the occupiers can adjust, able to hold each habitable room at 21°C or more. Harrow also refuses bottled-gas, paraffin and oil heaters as the main heating, whether the landlord or a tenant provides them. If a room relies on a portable heater, it needs a radiator or other fixed heater, and we can add or upsize radiators on a wet system.