Gas Safety Certificates - CP12

A qualified gas engineer is on the Gas Safe register. When they make their inspections, they check the following:

• Gas tightness in appliances
• Working pressure and standing of gas appliances
• Flue flow that ensures the safe removal of products of combustion
• The safe operation of flame failure products
• Chimney flow for gas and fume discharge
• Full system installation safety and gas tightness
• Adequate ventilation for products
• Burner pressure and gas rate of appliances
• Overall condition by checking any unsafe features

The Health and Safety Executive states that a residential property’s permanent and portable gas appliances and flues should be checked annually.

Although this does not mean that landlords have the responsibility to have their tenants’ gas appliances checked, the pipes and flues these products are connected to must be inspected and cleared.