Landlord gas safety checks in Caversham

Caversham landlords deal with Reading Borough Council on housing standards. The gas safety record itself is a matter between you, your engineer and your tenants, with the Health and Safety Executive as the enforcing body if things go wrong.

Bigger Victorian and Edwardian houses can have more than one gas appliance: a boiler, a gas fire in a front room, a hob. Each one you provide is part of the annual check, and decorative gas fires that are rarely used are easy to forget until the engineer asks where the flue goes.

If you let a Caversham property as a whole house to a family, one record covers it, but each adult named on the tenancy is entitled to see it. Keep the previous year's record as well; the law asks you to keep each for two years.