Is there a gas safe person please?

imeach

james_smitha said:

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 Personally, I wouldn’t get too hot under the collar about something that I was not paying for. Perhaps concern has been expressed about the quality of recent installations and the Landlord wants independent assurance that the work has been carried out to the required building standard.

Three years ago, I moved into a new build property which has a 7kW EV charging point in the garage. The electrical work was done by an electrical sub-contractor with the appropriate NICEIC certificates. I wasn’t happy that the charging point had been installed properly as it had been added to an existing 32 amp ring main. The developer backed his sub-contractor (as one would expect) so I called in a charging point installer to review the installation. His report was damning. Fitting the charging point to a ring main is forbidden as it has to be on a separate radial circuit; the wiring to the garage was not properly sized for the load, and earth and RCD protection was inadequate. 

I'm not against safety checks in general, the thing is they are called 'yearly' yet my experience is that they are done six monthly if they can get away with it.

Other repairs, the land lords just fib through their back teeth. Surely all repairs should be done. Missing gates in parameter walls are not keeping undesireables out, that they should. Weeds near the shared washing lines are never touched, yet grass near by is, both are coloured green

Gates in "parameter" walls and weeds aren't likely to blow up and kill you or your neighbours

It's a safety check and as others have said, a legal obligation
I would just let them do it