Home Services for Landlords
With over 25 years’ experience in the property services market, completing over 100,000 safety inspections per year, Heat Care UK will provide you with an efficient, knowledgeable and professional service. Our engineers are gas-safe registered and audited on a regular basis, so you can rest assured the services we provide are fully compliant.
- Gas Safety Inspections
- EICR
- Electrical Inspection
- Smoke & CO Alarms
- Boiler Installations
- Boiler Cover
- Service & Repair
- Legionella Assessments
- EPC Certificates
Gas Safety Inspections
Electrical Installation Condition Report
PAT Testing
Smoke & CO Alarms
Our smoke alarms have a 10-year sealed lithium battery and one of these should be fitted on every floor of your property.
This is a smoke alarm with a 10-year sealed lithium battery (one per floor is required) AND a CO alarm in rooms with high-risk gas appliances. When we fit our new Aico CO alarm in your property our gas check in following years will also provide you with a full combined gas safety & CO report. Contact us today for your smoke alarm installation.
NOTE: Once you fit these lifesaving products and as they last for 10 years it is a ‘fit and forget‘ you don‘t have to worry except for the regular testing of them.
Boiler Installations
Boiler Cover
Service & Repair
Legionella Assessments
EPC Certificates
This legislation affects all domestic and privately rented properties which are required by law to have an EPC carried out.
Find out more about EPC Certificates and speak to our team about organising one for your property
Our Process
Submit your order – send your order over to orders@heatcare.co.uk.
Contact tenant – within 48 hours, we will contact the tenant to arrange the appointment.
Regular updates – once the appointment is booked, we will send you an update.
Certificate & invoice – once we have completed your order, we will email you your documentation and invoice.
Why Choose Heat Care UK
OVER 100,000
INSPECTIONS A YEAR
1 M
PROPERTIES CARED FOR
953
LETTING AGENCIES
ON BOARD
RATED EXCELLENT
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You Have Questions, We Have Answers
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Landlord’s responsibilities for a gas connection property?
As a landlord you are responsible for the safety of your tenants. Gas Safety regulations; 1998 provide full details of duties which must be carried out to ensure gas appliances, fittings and flues provided for tenants are safe for use and purpose. This Includes appliances that are within any communal area which tenants are permitted to use.
The Landlord is responsible for arranging the maintenance and repair of all provided flues, appliances and pipework, and to ensure these are carried out by a gas safe registered engineer.
You are also required to ensure an annual gas safety check is carried out within 10 to 12 months of a new appliance installation or flue. Records of these safety checks must be kept for a minimum on 2 years and these must be issued to existing tenants within 28 days of completion. Copies are to be issued to new tenants prior to them occupying the property.
Landlord Responsibilities in England
Landlord Responsibilities in Wales
Landlord Responsibilities in Scotland
The Landlord is responsible for arranging the maintenance and repair of all provided flues, appliances and pipework, and to ensure these are carried out by a gas safe registered engineer.
You are also required to ensure an annual gas safety check is carried out within 10 to 12 months of a new appliance installation or flue. Records of these safety checks must be kept for a minimum on 2 years and these must be issued to existing tenants within 28 days of completion. Copies are to be issued to new tenants prior to them occupying the property.
Landlord Responsibilities in England
Landlord Responsibilities in Wales
Landlord Responsibilities in Scotland
Can my tenants be responsible for the gas safety of the property?
No, however your tenant has a duty not to use an appliance they believe to be dangerous. An agreement may be drawn up for an appliance or flue installed in a non-residential part of the premises, for example a shop or public house.
What happens if faults are found on annual gas safety inspections?
Gas safety checks are carried out by Gas Safety Registered engineers, and issued upon completion without delay and regardless of whether a defect has been detected. Landlords are responsible to add records of any follow up actions required, completing a full history on the property for gas safety.
What can landlords look out for in between boiler services to potentially foresee issues etc.?
This isn’t an easy question to answer.
If the boiler is inspected and serviced on a regular basis then the boiler should function without issue. If the system is a combi boiler or a pressurised system then the pressure on the gauge either on the boiler or airing cupboard when the system is cold should read approximately 1 bar. With the system operating on heating then the pressure should be a little higher but not greater than 3 bar.
If it is greater than 3 bar then the figure can be an indication that a fault is developing and that attention from a gas registered engineer is required.
Other issues to look out for are cooler hot water temperatures at hot taps, cloudy hot water and slow flow or very noisy operation of boiler (banging, hissing, boom/thump sound on boiler start up).
If the boiler is inspected and serviced on a regular basis then the boiler should function without issue. If the system is a combi boiler or a pressurised system then the pressure on the gauge either on the boiler or airing cupboard when the system is cold should read approximately 1 bar. With the system operating on heating then the pressure should be a little higher but not greater than 3 bar.
If it is greater than 3 bar then the figure can be an indication that a fault is developing and that attention from a gas registered engineer is required.
Other issues to look out for are cooler hot water temperatures at hot taps, cloudy hot water and slow flow or very noisy operation of boiler (banging, hissing, boom/thump sound on boiler start up).
