Landlord Gas Safety Certificates in South Edinburgh

Service records, gas safety records and installation certificates, kept together where you can find them. They are what a buyer, a letting agent or the next engineer will ask for.

Yes. A new tenant gets a copy before moving in, and existing tenants get one within 28 days of the check.

Yes, as long as you tell us who to expect. For a South Edinburgh property that is often the simplest way round a working day.

The record names the landlord or their agent, so where an agent manages the property the paperwork can be issued to the agent. Say at booking which of you it should go to, and who is passing the copy on to the tenant.

Yes. Older buildings across Edinburgh often have thick walls, long pipe runs and past alterations, and the job is planned around what is actually there.

Get it booked. A check cannot be backdated, so the only thing that helps is closing the gap and keeping the correspondence that shows when you acted. Tell us it has run over at the point of booking so it is treated accordingly.

Leave the property, do not use switches or naked flames, turn the gas off at the meter if it is safe to, and call the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999. Once they have made it safe, we can deal with the appliance.

In Scotland the Repairing Standard expects a CO detector in every room with a fixed combustion appliance, other than one used only for cooking. It sits alongside the annual gas check rather than replacing any part of it.

Dust sheets go down where the work is, and the area is cleared up before we leave. It is your home, not a building site.

The legal duty sits with the landlord, so the booking and the cost are yours even when the tenant is the one letting us in. Tenants do sometimes ring to chase an overdue check, and we point them back to the landlord or agent rather than start on their say-so.