Gas Safety Week: A tenants guide for staying Gas Safe

04/09/21

As a tenant, taking care of your gas appliances means you are properly taking care of your home, your loved ones and looking out for your local community.
Gas Safety Week: A tenants guide for staying Gas Safe

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tenants gas safe guide. We are proud to be supporting Gas Safety Week 2021, taking place from 13-19 September.

Gas Safety Week is an annual safety week to raise awareness of gas safety and the importance of taking care of your gas appliances. It is coordinated by the Gas Safe Register, the official list of gas engineers who are legally allowed to work on gas.

Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas appliances can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. CO is a highly poisonous gas that can kill quickly and without warning. You cannot see it, taste it or smell it.

As a tenant, taking care of your gas appliances means you are properly taking care of your home, and your loved ones and looking out for your local community.

Follow these few simple checks to keep you and others safe.

1. Check your Landlord’s Gas Safety Record. By law, your landlord must keep gas pipework, appliances and flues supplied for you to use in good condition. They must arrange a gas safety check of the appliances and flues every year and give you a record of the check. Therefore if your landlord refuses to provide you with one, you can report their details to the HSE: bit.ly/LGSRReport

2. Check any gas appliances you own every year. Your landlord is not responsible for gas appliances that you own. So you should arrange for these to be safety checked once a year and serviced regularly by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Set a reminder so you don’t forget at
StayGasSafe.co.uk.

3. Check your engineer is Gas Safe registered. You can find or check an engineer at
GasSafeRegister.co.uk call 0800 408 5500 or ask to see their Gas Safe ID card when they arrive.

4. Check your engineer is qualified for the type of gas work you need doing e.g. natural gas, domestic boiler. This information can be found on the back of their Gas Safe ID card and the Gas Safe Register website.

5. Check for warning signs that could indicate your (or others') appliances are not working correctly. Signs may include lazy yellow /orange flames instead of crisp blue ones, black marks on or around the appliance, a pilot light that keeps going out and too much condensation in the room.

6. Know the six main symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. They are - headaches, dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, collapse and loss of consciousness.

7. Install an audible carbon monoxide alarm and look out for your community by making sure your friends, relatives and neighbours have one too. You should check they are marked EN50291 and display the British Standards Kitemark.

For more gas safety advice for tenants and to find or check an engineer visit the Gas Safe Register website at GasSafeRegister.co.uk.

PlusHeat uses only Gas Safe™ engineers, tradespeople and expertly trained staff to give you the finest, and safest, service available.

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