Providing service and repair to Landlords and Housing Associations

Do your Properties Have a Gas Safety Certificate?

By law all landlords who rent out all or part of a property must have a gas safety certificate to prove that all of the property’s gas appliances and pipe work have been checked to ensure that they are operating safely. These checks should be carried out regularly and the landlord’s certificate should be updated every 12 months.

You will need to keep a record of the checks made, whether any faults were found, and what repairs were carried out. Additionally, you should make this record accessible to tenants of the property within a month of the inspection.

What happens if I don’t carry a Gas Safety Certificate?

If you operate as a landlord or a housing association and you do not carry up-to-date gas safety certificates for all of your properties, you could be prosecuted under the law. This could lead to imprisonment or a fine for as much as £25,000.

Helping you to Obtain your Gas Safety Certificate

With our help you can ensure that you stay within the law!

As registered gas engineers Viva Gas are qualified to issue gas safety certificates, and we work within the legal guidelines. We offer a special service to landlords and housing associations by providing annual inspections so that their gas safety certificates are kept up-to date.

Under our landlord gas safety certificate scheme we carry out a series of annual checks to ensure that your gas appliances comply with the Gas Safety Regulations 1998.

With our landlord gas safety check we will: 

• Check appliances for gas tightness
• Check standing and working pressures
• Check burner pressure/gas rate
• Check for satisfactory provision of all necessary ventilation
• Test flue flow to ensure removal of products of combustion
• Check satisfactory operation of all the flame failure devices
• Check for physical stability, presence and effectiveness of stability brackets (where appropriate).
• Investigate any evidence of unsafe operation and report to a responsible person
• For the Landlords Safety Record inspection, perform a tightness test of the full system
• Verify and test all carbon monoxide detectors

A combustion analysis with printed report is also available.

Giving you Peace of Mind

Because we’re used to carrying out landlord gas safety checks, we’re familiar with the requirements of the law. Therefore, we are on hand to answer all your concerns. If any defects are found during our check we will take the appropriate course of action to remedy the situation and will advise you of our findings.

Why not use Viva Gas for all your Heating and Plumbing jobs?

Viva Gas provides a fully comprehensive service for landlords and housing associations at competitive rates.

We cover all aspects of plumbing, heating and gas appliance services, installation, and repairs, including boiler repairs. Viva Gas also operates a 24 hour call out service, 365 days a year, so we’re there when you need us.

You can get in touch with us anytime on telephone number: 08006 123177 or 01274 723936, or email: info@vivagas.co.uk.

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