If you own gas appliances, you must get it checked with an engineer to ensure safety in your home. Although it is not a mandatory or a legal requirement, getting a safety check for gas will ensure the safety, identify the faults in the appliances and take corrective actions for the same. After a complete inspection, you will receive a gas safety certificate.
Documents required to be given by the gas engineer when they finish the work:
The kind of document which will be received depends on the kind of work done at home. As per the law, a gas safety certificate must be obtained annually by the owners. This document ensures that gas safety checks are made on the gas appliances annually. The gas appliances are delicate things which need to be given extra care. These landlord gas safety checks must be carried out by the experts, who will then present the results in the form of gas certificate, which is recorded in detail and sent to the landlord.
Things expected to see in a Landlord’s Gas Safety record:
You must have the minimum things which a record must contain:
- The description of all the appliances along with the details of the areas where the appliance was checked.
- The name, registration number and the signature of the person who was involved in carrying out the check.
- The notable date that observed the carrying out of the check.
- The details of the landlord such as his address and name.
- Declaration of the result such as an identification of safety defect and the action or steps required to rectify it.
- The confirmed results of the security check of the appliance.
It is legally the duty of the landlord to maintain the pipework in good condition. Hence, this is a reason why many of the propriety forms record the integrity test of the pipework which indicates the safe installation of the pipes.
If you are not a landlord, then the following documents are required:
If you are not a landlord but a tenant, then it is suggested that you confirm with the registered engineer about the documents needed before getting any gas certificate. This is because the registered engineers have no legal requirements to provide or submit any documentation. In many of the cases, the registered engineer generally provides a small piece of documentation because it is considered as a good and ethical practice.
The details which are provided in the gas certificate depends on the type of work which was done, which could vary from a simple job sheet, an invoice or information or record provided in the form of gas safety certificate. If a circumstance arises that you require some specific data or help from the engineer, then, make sure you talk about it and get on a mutual agreement with your registered engineer before the commencement of the work.
Check the engineer- is he or she gas safe registered?
The website of gas safe register has a ‘find an engineer’ service or option where an individual can find the list of all registered engineers locally just by feeding in your postcode.
The customers also have a chance to check up on the engineer which has come to visit the house and carry on with the work if he is ‘found’ or listed in the website through the service of ‘Check an engineer’ on the website of gas safe register. The customer just needs to put in the license number which is mentioned in the ID card of the registered engineer and feed into the gas safe register website. If the engineer is registered, then the consumers will be able to see the pictures of the engineer who is registered along with his details such as qualification etc
Consumers can also check if the business is registered by texting on the registered number about the ‘official business number’. Consumers will immediately receive a text which confirms whether the registration number fed is officially registered or not. There is another way through which consumers can check properly if the engineer is registered or not by texting the seven-digit number of gas and engineers licensed number. This time also, the consumers will receive a text message by confirming whether the engineer is registered or not.
Overall, doing a background check of the engineers is extremely important as this service has no room for an error. As is always said, ‘Prevention is always better than cure’. We suggest you do a thorough background check before allowing an engineer to do the fuel check.