ferguson_tom Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Hi Everyone Before I hand over more money to the estate agent to arrange this are there any engineers local to Stevenage who can provide a gas safety certificate as will be renting our house out very soon? If you can PM me a price that would be great. Cheers, Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsanity Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 can't reccomend anyone personally but rather than let the estate agent employ someone and put his own tax on top for "admin" you could just call any gas safe fitter from the local paper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shadow Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 I do boiler safety tickets for letting agents,(not your area) , the agents only add 10% around here,so not too bad and then all the boxes are ticked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 My letting agent adds a damn sight more than 10% - hence I found my own gas engineer and I fitted the 10 year rated smoke alarms and CO monitor to our rental. Did you know about the relatively new requirement to fit smoke alarms with 10 year life batteries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del T Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 The letting agent did some of our customers before we did and charged plenty, plus the gas engineers didn't even do basic checks, they just basically wrote the form out. One lady quizzed me on why I was removing a gas fire to check the catchment space! " the other man never did that"! There's also carbon monoxide detectors required if there's a solid fuel appliance in the room and the legionaires (sp?) risk assessment that will be required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 ...............and the legionaires (sp?) risk assessment that will be required. and that is straightforward to do yourself too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del T Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 But you have to be deemed competent ie have attended the 1 day training course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson_tom Posted November 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Thanks lads, I might be swearing here but i am thinking of going for either homeserve or British gas landlord covers for gas, drainage, electrics and plumbing which also includes a boiler service and the gas cert. For about £13 a month seems a good idea to me unless I am missing something. Our estate agent quoted £75 plus vat for gas cert which looking online doesn't seem horrendous. £65 to fit the carbon monoxide did seem steep though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 But you have to be deemed competent ie have attended the 1 day training course. Can you quote me the ruling on that please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 I have contract cover with British Gas. I leave the emergency number with the tenant and it's one less thing to worry about. I pay a fair bit more than £13/month though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson_tom Posted November 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 I have contract cover with British Gas. I leave the emergency number with the tenant and it's one less thing to worry about. I pay a fair bit more than £13/month though. Homeserve were £13.00 but that was with £50.00 excess for callouts. I think British gas is about £17.50 a month with no call out excess. How have you found British Gas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del T Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 Can you quote me the ruling on that please? Here, have a read. The term 'competent' is in there somewhere. A bit like to work on gas you need to be deemed 'competent' ie hand over money and get a piece of paper after doing a course. http://www.hse.gov.uk/legionnaires/what-you-must-do.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 Here, have a read. The term 'competent' is in there somewhere. A bit like to work on gas you need to be deemed 'competent' ie hand over money and get a piece of paper after doing a course. http://www.hse.gov.uk/legionnaires/what-you-must-do.htm No requirement to attend a course. The risk assessment procedures are set out and any landlord who can wield a thermometer, ask the tenant some simple questions and complete a form should be able to be seen as competent. Or, of course, you could just pay your agent to hire an "expert". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 Homeserve were £13.00 but that was with £50.00 excess for callouts. I think British gas is about £17.50 a month with no call out excess. How have you found British Gas? To be fair their service has been very good. I have had them out a couple of times, and came out pretty quickly resolved the issues painlessly. The deal is i get an annual boiler service, no parts and labour charges or excess with unlimited callouts and a Gas certificate. My only criticism is that they put an advisory on my flue type when they were the ones who advised me to get that one 2 years back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSpredder Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 You can search this website for registered gas engineers in your area, and check that they are properly qualified: http://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del T Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 No requirement to attend a course. The risk assessment procedures are set out and any landlord who can wield a thermometer, ask the tenant some simple questions and complete a form should be able to be seen as competent. Or, of course, you could just pay your agent to hire an "expert". Hmmm ok. I'll leave it as that . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 Hmmm ok. I'll leave it as that . We are attacking this from different angles. If you are a gas engineer, and offering a paid for service to risk-assess any number of different properties against legionella, then it is probably prudent to establish your competence with a piece of paper. If, however, you are a small landlord, with intimate knowledge of the property involved, who has already removed any likely sources of the bug (loft tank, redundant water-piping) it seems somewhat OTT to pay someone else to conduct the box-ticking exercise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston72 Posted November 17, 2015 Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 (edited) We are attacking this from different angles. If you are a gas engineer, and offering a paid for service to risk-assess any number of different properties against legionella, then it is probably prudent to establish your competence with a piece of paper. If, however, you are a small landlord, with intimate knowledge of the property involved, who has already removed any likely sources of the bug (loft tank, redundant water-piping) it seems somewhat OTT to pay someone else to conduct the box-ticking exercise./ How would you know if you had a bio film and what chemicals to treat it with> How would you know if you had a bio film and what chemicals to treat it with? Edited November 17, 2015 by Winston72 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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