Landlord's Responsibility

Gas Repairs & Safety

Gas installation and repairs can be dangerous to your property and to your tenants if not conducted with professional care. For this reason, the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 enforce a legal responsibility on landlords to use a qualified CORGI engineer for gas maintenance work and to obtain an annual service proving safety compliance.

The Regulations state the landlord's responsibilities are to:

  • Ensure installation pipe work, appliances and flues provided for tenants are maintained in a safe condition
  • Ensure maintenance and annual safety checks are carried out specifically by a CORGI registered engineer
  • Keep a record of each safety check for 2 years
  • Issue a copy of the safety check to each existing tenant within 28 days of the check being completed and to any new tenant before they move in

CORGI registered engineers and the Annual CP12 Certificate

Landlords are required to ensure their gas installation tradesman is registered with CORGI. This means they have the qualifications to carry out safe gas repairs and to provide your property with the annual gas safety check, called a CP12 Inspection. The CORGI registered engineer will then issue a CP12 Certificate. For legal compliance a landlord needs to keep this certificate current and to supply their tenants with a copy. It is also the duty of landlords to ensure that the gas appliances and flues they provide for tenants' use are maintained in a safe condition at all times.

To learn more, see CORGI

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The landlord's responsibility to its tenant or tenants is not limited to the property's gas safety and maintenance. Landlord's responsibilities also extend to ensure that:

  • Keep the premises in good order to obey housing codes and regulations.
  • Keep structural components of the property (roofs, floors, walls, fireplaces) in good condition
  • Provide satisfactory locks and keys.
  • Ensure electrical, plumbing, heating, and other household appliances in adequate working condition.
  • Make sure the premises is in a satisfactory weather-tight state
  • Deal with insects, rodents, and other pests before the tenant occupies the property. The landlord must continue to deal with infestations except in a house (e.g., single family dwellings) or when the tenant is the cause of the problem.
  • The landlord must provide garbage cans and arrange for garbage removal in apartments, studios, or any dwellings excluding houses.
  • Keep communal areas such as lobbies, stairways and halls reasonably clean and free from hazards.
  • Attend to repairs to keep the dwellings in the same condition as when the tenant moved in, except for normal wear and tear.
  • Provide smoke detectors, making sure they work properly when a new tenant moves in. (Tenants are responsible for maintaining detectors)

A landlord is not responsible for contributing to the cost of correcting problems caused by the tenant.