Gas Safety check ..not done properly !x!

tbs624

Landlord-Certificates wrote: »

Renting properties also require a energy performance certificate and smoke alarm by law.

Only those properties let out to a new tenant after October 2008 are required to have an EPC.

HMOs require smoke/fire alarms, as do properties built post June 1992. The HHSRS used by Councils to assess "housing hazards" will look for evidence of smoke alarm provision under assessment of fire safety

Older properties let out to a single household may not necessarily have them, although decent LLs will provide them. It's not true to generalise by saying that "renting properties.. require a smoke alarm by law"

mandi

Thanks again for all the replies .

He definitely did not check the gas meter or remove the cover from the radiant gas fire .No tests of any kind were done as I said in my OP he opened the cover on the boiler & briefly looked at the control panel , turned the fire on full , and looked in the loft .

He is definitely Gas Safe registered & works for himself .

The reason for my original OP was that I have reported this to my LL & as he is Gas Safe registered I am considering reporting him to Gas Safe also.

I might add that he done the safety check last year & did all the relevant tests as have been posted., but when he arrived to do this one he more or less implied that as he had done all the tests last year it wasn't necessary to do them again this year .

gas4you

I think you need to redo your training. Just redone all of mine and a ll cert requires you to do a tightness check.

Aint going to argue with you. I sit on enough gas safety committees across the country, even those that decide what you have to learn in your ACS, and those that tell gas safe what is correct, to know what is right thank you.

Landlord-Certificates

You haven't called Gas Safe. There is no legal requirement to check for leaks on a gas safety check. The form also has a box for combustion analysis but that is not a legal requirement either.

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gas4you

Combustion analysis is not a legal requirement, yet, it is coming in next year, for all appliances. What a joke that will be.

A tightness test is a legal requirement and if gas safe are saying it isn't then they are wrong and I shall be bringing this up at the next meeting.

You even have to have a ll cert if you have a gas carcass and meter on the property, but no gas appliances connected, so if a tightness test is as you say, then one could not carry out the certificate.

You are still confused with a standard service, where a tightness test is not a legal requirement, but you have to check any disturbed gas joints.

I'm afraid that I do not hold anything that is posted on donut with any regard for accuracy or truth. Too may toss pots who are 2 week course cowboys posting on there.

I must say I am shocked at Lees stand on that post. I hold him in the highest regard usually. I also note that the acs trainers are also stating that it is a requirement as well.

utigers

A tightness test is required on a LL certificates.

It may or may not be required on a service depending on the isolation point on the appliance itself.

prudryden

utigers wrote: »

A tightness test is required on a LL certificates.

It may or may not be required on a service depending on the isolation point on the appliance itself.

I'm just looking at my LANDLORD/HOME OWNER GAS SAFETY RECORD. There doesn't seem to be an inspection block for highlighting that a tightness test was conducted. Does it go under a different name? Most of the requirements except operating pressure only require a pass/fail or a yes/no response. The sections on "initial and final combustion analyser reading (if applicable)" are responded to by n/a. I assume that means not applicable. The form is dated and signed by the gas operative. His reg no is given, along with name, address and telephone number. I was with him when he did the checks. It was all visual and he didn't need to take the cover off the boiler.

rustyboy21

The pressure on the fires seems a bit low too.

I am not a fitter, but do sell fires, normally they are approx 20 on inlet elbow and around 17.8 burner pressure when cold.

Doesnt sound like he has done the job properley at all to me