Making rental properties safe for tenants

UK Landlords have legal obligations to make sure tenants are safe in their properties. Involving them making make sure that:

• they get a gas safety certificate issued for every gas appliance in the property. These certificates must be given by a CORGI registered gas engineer and renewed each year
• any necessary work stipulated by CORGI gas engineers is completed
• furniture meets UK fire safety standards and
• electrical equipment supplied is safe.

Tenants have the right to ask their landlords to fit and upkeep carbon monoxide detectors. Whilst these are not legal requirements, it's both in the landlord's and tenants' best interests.

Landlord gas and electrical responsibilities
As outlined above, as landlord, you carry responsibilities for both gas and electrical safety inspections. Electrical safety ones require you organise electrical certification. And it's important that this is carried out by an electrician registered with the National Inspection Council for Electrical Installers and Contractors (NICEIC).

Every rental property which has any type of gas appliance requires a Gas Safety Certificate. This makes sure appliances are working as they should and protects your tenants against carbon monoxide dangers.

More about landlords gas certificates
You may have heard of CORGI gas safety associated with rental property. That's because the landlords gas safety certificates you need to organise as a landlord, for your property, need to be issued by CORGI registered engineers or installers.

Note that gas appliances and flues you own should be regularly maintained and a safety check should be carried out at least once every 12 months by a CORGI gas fitter.

If your next step is locating a CORGI professional, then go to CORGI's Installer search web page.