Gas safety certificate Manchester

If you let a property in Manchester, the gas safety certificate is not optional, it is a legal duty you have to your tenants every single year. The certificate, properly called the CP12 or Landlord Gas Safety Record, confirms that every gas appliance in the property has been inspected and is safe to use. Our Gas Safe registered engineers carry out these checks across Greater Manchester, book you in quickly, and hand over compliant paperwork the same day.

What the law requires of landlords

Under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations, anyone letting a residential property must have every gas appliance, flue and fitting checked for safety by a Gas Safe registered engineer once every twelve months. You must keep a record of that check and give a copy to your tenants, existing tenants within a set period and new tenants before they move in. There are no exceptions for a well-maintained boiler or a short tenancy. A landlord without a valid, current certificate is in breach of the law and, far more seriously, is putting their tenants at risk from carbon monoxide and gas escapes.

We keep the process simple. Tell us the property and the appliances, we book a slot that suits your tenant, carry out the inspection and issue the certificate. Many of our landlords set up an annual reminder with us so the certificate never lapses.

What we check

The inspection is a genuine safety check, not a paperwork exercise. We test every gas appliance in the property: the boiler, any gas fire, the gas hob or cooker, and anything else running on gas. For each one we check it is gas tight, operating correctly and burning safely, with the right combustion and no dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. We inspect the flues that carry combustion gases away and the ventilation that feeds the appliances, because a blocked flue or inadequate ventilation is as dangerous as a faulty appliance. We also confirm the gas installation itself, the pipework and meter connections, is sound.

If everything passes, you get your certificate on the spot. If we find something unsafe, we tell you clearly what it is, record it honestly, and with your agreement make the appliance safe, which sometimes means turning it off until it is repaired. We would rather give you an accurate record than a convenient one.

When something needs fixing

A failed appliance does not have to mean a second engineer and a second visit. Because we are heating and gas engineers as well as inspectors, we can usually carry out the repair there and then so the appliance passes. Where the boiler is the problem, our boiler repair manchester service puts it right, and where it turns out the boiler is simply worn out and due attention, our boiler service manchester covers the maintenance side. Many landlords ask us to do the service and the certificate together in one visit, which saves a call out and keeps everything on the same annual date.

More than boilers

Gas is not the only thing worth checking in a let property, and while we are there we often look over the wider heating and hot water system. A tired hot water cylinder, a failing immersion or a system that has been neglected between tenancies can all cause problems, and our hot water cylinder replacement manchester service covers the stored hot water side where it needs attention. All of this sits within the broader gas engineer manchester work we carry out across the region.

Manchester landlords and their properties

We work with landlords across the full range of the city's housing: the Victorian and Edwardian terraces of Chorlton, Levenshulme, Rusholme and the inner suburbs that make up so much of the private rented stock, the student houses around Fallowfield and Withington, and the newer apartments in the city centre and Salford Quays. Each brings its own quirks, from old gas fires and back boilers in the terraces to communal flues in the apartment blocks. Our engineers are used to all of it.

Book before it expires

The sensible time to book is a few weeks before your current certificate runs out. You can have the new inspection done in the final two months of the old one without losing any validity, so there is no reason to leave it to the last day and risk a lapse. We cover the whole region, across the areas we cover, from the city centre out to the surrounding towns. A certificate for a single appliance starts at a fixed rate with a small addition per extra appliance, confirmed before we start, and you can see how we charge on our plumber call out fee page. All inspections are carried out by Gas Safe registered engineers. Call us to get your CP12 booked in and stay compliant.