Landlord gas safety certificates in Croydon

We charge £75 for a landlord gas safety certificate, and that is the price whether the property has one appliance or three. There is no extra for evening or Saturday appointments and no separate charge for issuing the record. If a defect is found, any repair is quoted separately and you decide before we do anything.

Nothing. CP12 was the form number on the old CORGI paperwork and the name stuck, so landlords, agents and councils all still use it. The correct current name is a Landlord Gas Safety Record. If an agent asks you for a CP12 and we send you a Landlord Gas Safety Record, that is the same document and it will be accepted.

No. The annual check is a landlord duty under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998, and it does not apply to owner-occupiers. Plenty of Croydon homeowners still book one, usually because they are selling, because a buyer has asked, or because they have inherited a house and want to know the state of an old back boiler before they let anyone use it. An annual boiler service at £90 is generally the more useful spend for a home you live in, since it maintains the appliance rather than only inspecting it.

You are expected to take all reasonable steps to get the check done, and you need to be able to show what those steps were. Write to the tenant, offer specific dates including evenings and Saturdays, keep copies of every letter and message, and follow up when they are ignored. Do not let yourself in without agreement. If the tenant continues to refuse, the evidence trail is what protects you, and in the worst cases landlords apply to court for an access order.

A one-bedroom Croydon flat with a single combi boiler is usually forty minutes to an hour. A three-bedroom house with a boiler, a gas fire and a gas hob is more like ninety minutes. Add time if the flue is concealed and hatches need cutting, or if the meter is in a communal cupboard and someone has to find the key.

It is classified under the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure. Immediately Dangerous means the appliance is unsafe in use now and, with permission, it is turned off, labelled and capped. At Risk means a defect exists that could become dangerous, and it is also turned off with permission. Not to Current Standards means it does not meet today’s rules but is not unsafe, so it stays on and goes on the record as advice. In every case you get a Warning Notice, and the property does not get a passing certificate until the fault is corrected and rechecked.

Yes, and it is the sensible way to do it. They are different jobs, though people often assume they are one. The certificate is an inspection that records whether the appliance is safe on the day, at £75. A service is maintenance: the boiler is stripped down, the burner and heat exchanger cleaned, the condensate trap emptied and the Benchmark logbook stamped, at £90. Booking both means one appointment, one disruption to your tenant and one set of paperwork.

Any time in the two months before the expiry date. Since the rules changed, a check carried out inside that window keeps the original anniversary date rather than resetting it, so booking early does not shorten your next certificate. If you let it lapse and check late, the new date runs from the day of the check and you have a gap in the record that a council or an agent can see.

The appliance itself is not your legal responsibility if the tenant brought it and owns it, so it is not part of the landlord duty. The installation pipework, the bayonet connection and the flexible hose are yours, and we check those. In practice, if a tenant’s cooker is obviously unsafe the engineer will tell you and the tenant, because leaving a known hazard in a property you own is not a position anyone wants to defend later.

They exist, but rarely for the people asking. Gas suppliers have to offer one free safety check a year to certain vulnerable customers who own their home and receive a means-tested benefit. It does not extend to rented properties, so a landlord cannot use it to cover the annual duty. If you are letting a home in Croydon, the check is your cost.

The Health and Safety Executive enforces the gas safety regulations and prosecutes landlords who ignore them. Cases carry unlimited fines and, at the serious end where someone has been harmed, custodial sentences. Beyond the criminal side, a missing record will complicate a property licence application, an insurance claim after an incident and any dispute with a tenant. It is a £75 job with a very poor risk-to-reward ratio if skipped.

Most gas safety certificates in Croydon, Thornton Heath, South Norwood, Norbury, Purley and the rest of the CR postcodes are booked within two or three working days, and same-day slots often exist if a tenancy start date is closing in on you. Call 07534 841885 with the address and the number of appliances and we will give you a time rather than a window that spans the afternoon.

You should. Every engineer who arrives carries a Gas Safe ID card with a photograph, a licence number and an expiry date, and the back of the card lists exactly which appliance types that engineer is qualified to work on. Our registration number is 919881. Ask to see the card, and check the back as well as the front, because being registered for boilers does not automatically mean being registered for gas fires.