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Average cost for gas safety cert & advice re electricity regs
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Hiya all,
My letting agent are quoting 80 pounds for the gas checks & 65 pounds for the electricity, I suppose I could just ask them to do it but it was in the interest of saving some money.
If it's a case of ringing around to get someone in, I don't mind although it seems that it is hard to find someone to come & do it?
Am just very new to letting out property & obviously don't want to be taken for a complete ride by agents, ARLA registered or otherwise.
Incidently, how often are you required to do the gas & electricity checks...is it every 12 months or after another fixed period of time?
I'm not sure if I would want to pay British Gas that amount of money, I really wouldn't want to switch over to them... I have a fairly new 1 bed flat (about 5 yrs old) so I'd rather take the chance for now.
Thanks everyone, Chick0 -
I have the annual gas check, corgi of course, so I was wondering is there a law that says you also have to have a carbon monoxide detector? like you have the smoke detectors? Anyone know?It is unwise to pay too much but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, all you lose is a little money... that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot...it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better (John Ruskin - 19 ctry author, art critic & social reformer)0
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clutton wrote:"""I pay £296.00 a year to British Gas"" - i would not even dream of paying for this service. in 6 years, i have only ever had one boiler break down, and that was because of severe weather conditions and water pouring into a house, and in fact, it dried out and fixed itself. As long as you know a local good reliable corgi gas engineer who is wiling to turn out for the very rare emergency, why spend this money. i assume this is for one house only ? What you are paying is nearly £5 a week for what ? - for a "just in case" - mind you, i do hate BG
rant over !!
I DON'T know a good Corgi engineer, that was the reason I went with BG. Every Gas person I phoned from the yellow pages wouldn't come out and do gas certificates, or they said they would turn up and didn't. (which wouldn't be very good if there WAS a genuine emergency).
Also, I live in Spain, the house is in the UK and lived in by my son and two lodgers. If we need a CORGI engineer (and don't forget it is up to ME to make sure the Gas is safe), I don't particularly want to have to ring round from 1500 miles away. If my son rang, presumably he would have the same problem as I did.
It seemed easier under the circumstances to pay the money and know it would get fixed. I know I could maybe get it cheaper IF I could find a reliable engineer who would come out 24/7, 365-days a year (although how mmuch do they charge for an emergency call-out?).
(And it HAS broken down and needed a spare part, which BG fixed on the spot).
Otherwise, thanks for your advice.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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being in spain DOES make a difference !!!!0
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I thought I had a CORGI registered reliable plumber until he let me (& my tenant) down. Used him regularly in the past (even last month). Tenant phoned with a problem so I asked him to attend. No show. I then phoned him and he said he'd had other emergencies, had spoken to tenant and was going that afternoon. Checked with tenant, no show again! Luckily tenant took it in good spirit.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0
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i think if tenants see that you are doing your best, then what else can you do ? the building industry is notorious for being unreliable. i try to keep my guys and gals sweet by paying their bills the day they arrive, and whiskey or some such at christmas.0
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Mr A is a reliable CORGI bloke and he does gas certs for rented properties.;)My sig's too large, apparently - so apologies to whoever's space I was taking up.:lipsrseal0
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Chick wrote:Hiya all,
I'm not sure if I would want to pay British Gas that amount of money, I really wouldn't want to switch over to them... I have a fairly new 1 bed flat (about 5 yrs old) so I'd rather take the chance for now.
Thanks everyone, Chick
They do not have to be your supplier to use the Homecare Service. We use Powergen for the power.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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clutton wrote:being in spain DOES make a difference !!!!
A little bit!:rotfl:(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Mrs_Arkwright wrote:Mr A is a reliable CORGI bloke and he does gas certs for rented properties.;)
Is he in the West Midlands?????(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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