Gas Safety Certificates in Stanmore

If it is connected and available to the tenant, it falls within the annual duty and belongs on the record. Where an appliance is genuinely disused, the answer depends on how it was left, so talk to us first. A disconnected and capped supply is a different position from a fire that simply has not been lit lately.

Mainly the number of appliances and flues, since each is tested in turn, plus any annex or outbuilding with its own boiler. Tell us what the property has and the fixed price is confirmed before we attend, so the invoice matches what you agreed. A fault the check finds is not in that price: a boiler or gas appliance fault goes to a heating engineer, and water-side work such as a leaking radiator valve is quoted separately for you to approve first.

Longer than on a flat with a single combi, because every appliance and flue is tested separately. Give us the count when booking and the tenant gets an appointment window sized for the real job. Paired with an EPC and EICR on a big house, the full set can take most of a day.

It depends on what is in the flat. If the building's managing agent runs a communal boiler and there is no gas appliance inside your flat, the annual check on that plant sits with whoever controls it, not with you. If you provide a gas hob or fire in the flat, that appliance still needs your annual check. Ask the agent for the communal plant records so you can show a tenant how the heating is maintained.

Nearly all. At the 2021 Census, 80.5% of households in Stanmore ward relied on mains gas alone for central heating, another 7.4% combined two or more types, not counting renewables, and only 6.8% had electric-only heating. Canons ward was much the same, at 80.9% gas and 8.3% electric. A property with no gas supply and none of your gas appliances has nothing to check. A single gas hob that you provide is enough to bring the annual duty back.

Ring the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999. If an appliance may be giving off fumes, HSE also advises switching it off, turning the gas off at the meter control valve and opening doors and windows. The emergency engineer makes the situation safe, which can mean capping the supply, and repairing the appliance is a separate job for a Gas Safe registered heating engineer; we do not repair boilers. We are not a 24-hour firm. Nothing that has been capped should be relit until it is repaired and tested, and once it is back in use we can check it at the next gas safety visit. Between checks, HSE's warning signs are worth passing on to tenants: yellow or orange flames where they should be blue, soot or brown staining on or around an appliance, a pilot light that keeps going out, and more condensation than usual on the windows.

Yes. Disconnecting it and capping the supply is gas work for a Gas Safe registered engineer. Once the fire has gone it no longer appears on the record. Think before losing the chimney as well. Harrow's appraisal for the Canons Park Estate asks owners to keep chimneys even when they are no longer used, because the stacks, set centrally on the semis, are part of how the estate looks. Its suggestion for a redundant flue is a grille in the old fireplace and a ventilating cowl on top, which keeps air moving through it.