Property Maintenance
Landlord Gas Safety Checks
Guardian Edge arranges annual landlord gas safety checks across the UK using Gas Safe registered engineers. Under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998, landlords must have gas appliances and flues checked every twelve months, keep the record for two years, give a copy to existing tenants within 28 days and to new tenants before they move in.
Annual, Gas Safe registered, and the record where it needs to be.
Who this is for
- Private and social landlords
- Letting agents and managing agents
- Housing providers with annual programmes across a stock
- Commercial premises with gas appliances and plant
Problems it solves
- Certificates are expiring and access to the property keeps failing
- Records are held by whoever attended, rather than centrally
- A defect was found last year and the appliance is still in use
- Different properties renew in different months with no central view
What Guardian Edge provides
Our gas safety checks scope
What we provide
- Annual landlord gas safety checks by Gas Safe registered engineers
- Appliance servicing alongside the safety check where useful
- Boiler repair, replacement and commissioning
- Remedial works following an at-risk or immediately dangerous classification
- Certificate issue and distribution to tenants
- Portfolio expiry tracking and access management
Typical scope
- Domestic rented property, HMOs and residential blocks
- Commercial premises with gas installations
- Communal boilers and plant rooms
Before we price anything
Inspection & survey process
- 01
Check appliances and flues
Every gas appliance and flue the landlord is responsible for, tested for safe operation, ventilation and combustion performance.
On site
How the work is delivered
- 01
Attendance arranged with the tenant
Access is the main reason checks lapse. We arrange directly with the occupier and follow up on failed access rather than reporting it back and stopping.
- 02
Check carried out and recorded
By a Gas Safe registered engineer, with the record produced on the day.
- 03
Defects addressed
Anything classified as at risk or immediately dangerous is dealt with in accordance with the gas industry unsafe situations procedure.
- 04
Record distributed
Copy to the tenant within 28 days, to new tenants before occupation, and into your compliance register.
Compliance
What the rules actually require
- The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 require landlords to ensure a gas safety check is carried out within twelve months of the installation of a new appliance or flue, and annually thereafter.
- The check must be carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Landlords should check the engineer's registration card to confirm they are qualified for the specific appliance type.
- The record must be kept for two years.
- A copy must be given to existing tenants within 28 days of the check, and to new tenants before they move in.
- Since the 2018 amendment, a check can be carried out up to two months before the deadline while retaining the original expiry date — which makes access failures easier to manage without losing the anniversary.
Standards & legislation
These are not all the same kind of obligation, and we do not present them as if they were. A statutory duty is law. A British Standard is the recognised way of demonstrating you have met one. Guidance and our own recommendations are neither.
- Legal requirementGas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998
Landlord gas safety duties
Annual check by a Gas Safe registered engineer, record kept two years, copy to tenants within 28 days or before occupation.
Read the primary source → - Legal requirementGas Safety (Installation and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2018
Flexibility on check timing
Allows a check up to two months before the due date while keeping the original anniversary.
Ongoing support
Planned, reactive and multi-site.
Most providers do one of these well. The value of a single provider is that the schedule, the emergency and the portfolio all sit in the same place.
Planned maintenance
- Annual programme with checks booked two months ahead of expiry
- Combined servicing and safety check visits to reduce tenant disruption
- Portfolio-wide expiry dashboard
Reactive support
- Emergency attendance for gas leaks, no heating and no hot water
- Rapid check where a property must be let
Multi-site & national portfolios
- One gas compliance programme across an entire portfolio
- Consistent record format and central storage
Procurement, simplified
What happens next?
- 01
Tell us what you need
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough to start.
- 02
We assess the requirement
We confirm scope, access, and whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.
- 03
You receive a clear quotation
Itemised, with what is included and what is not. No provisional sums that move later.
- 04
We arrange attendance
A confirmed date and window, with the engineer or trade named in advance.
- 05
Works are completed
Carried out by directly managed engineers or vetted specialist subcontractors.
- 06
Evidence is supplied
Certification, test records and photographic evidence where the work calls for it.
Answers
Gas Safety Checksquestions.
How long must landlords keep gas safety records?
What happens if we cannot get access to carry out the check?
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Locations covered
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Argyll and Bute
- Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blaenau Gwent
- Borough of Bolton
- Borough of Bury
- Borough of Halton
- Borough of Oldham
- Borough of Rochdale
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Get a quotation for gas safety checks.
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough for us to start — and we will tell you plainly whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.