Gas Safety Week 2025: Tips for Landlords
Gas safety should be a number one priority for all landlords. Gas Safety Week 2025, which runs from 8 to 14 September, is a good time to make sure your properties are 100% gas safe.
What is Gas Safety Week?
Gas Safety Week is a publicity campaign run by industry body Gas Safe Register.
One of its aims is to encourage everyone – landlords, tenants and homeowners alike – to think about gas safety in their property.
This year’s Gas Safety Week theme is ‘Looking after your home, friends, and family’.
A reminder of landlords’ responsibilities for gas safety
Gas appliances you provide in rental properties must be inspected at least once a year by an engineer who is on the Gas Safe Register. This includes boilers, gas cookers, gas fires and the flues that serve them.
The engineer will issue an official Landlord/Homeowner Gas Safety Record, also known as a CP 12. A copy of this must be given to the tenant. The landlord must keep another copy.
There are also rules on providing carbon monoxide or CO detectors/alarms. (These detect the dangerous carbon monoxide gas that faulty gas appliances may give off.)
Rental properties must be fitted with a CO detector/alarm in every room with a gas or solid fuel appliance. (Rooms with cooking appliances in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland only are excluded.) The landlord should test these to ensure they are working when the tenancy starts.
Landlords can face penalties, including fines or prison, for not having valid gas safety records.
How to keep your property gas safe
It’s likely that Gas Safety Week will encourage tenants to think about gas safety in their homes.
If your tenant raises a concern about the safety of a gas appliance in their home, you should act immediately. Have a qualified gas engineer inspect the appliance and, if necessary, service, repair or replace it.
If a tenant smells gas in their home, advise them to call the National Gas Emergency Service immediately on 0800 111 999 for further advice.
If you need help with arranging landlord gas safety checks, or servicing and repairing gas appliances, please ask about how our property management service can assist you.
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