Landlord Voice Magazine April 2015 - Manchester | Page 22
together to understand where their
responsibilities lie in order that legal duties are met.
Who can undertake gas
safety checks and maintenance?
Gas safety checks - How they affect landlords
the tenant owns but they do cover
appliances at relevant premises. So,
boilers which heat tenants’ homes
but are not installed there would be
covered.
Who has responsibility for
gas safety checks if I am
a landlord in a building
owned by someone else?
Landlords in these circumstances
must make sure the building owner
checks that any communal gas appliances, flues and pipework your
tenants might use are safe. They
should also be sure that evidence
of these checks is available to them
and any Gas Safe registered engineer carrying out maintenance and
annual checks in their properties.
“Gas fires, gas space
heaters, gas water
heaters, including
gas boilers of 14 kilowatts gross input or
less or any instant
water heaters are
also banned unless
they are room-sealed
or have atmosphere
sensing dev X