It's a legal requirement

Once a year we are legally obliged to carry out a gas safety check  to make sure that the gas installation and all connected gas appliances in your home are safe.

Our current contractor, PH Jones, will make an appointment to visit and carry out the checks for you. Please make sure you allow them access to carry out this important work or call them to rearrange the appointment.

On arrival the PH Jones' operative should show you their Gas Safe identity card, read our information sheet for what to check: Gas safe card.

During our gas safety inspection:

  • We will safety check and service all your smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms
  • Safety check and service and repair all our gas appliances and point out any faults on your own appliances such as your cooker.

 

Service and maintenance to other forms of heating

We also carry out maintenance to other forms of heating, so if you have any of those listed below, we will need to visit:

  • Solid fuel (wood and coal burning appliances) – twice yearly visits to service the appliance and sweep the chimney 
  • Ground source heat pumps
  • Air source heat pumps
  • Storage heating (just to check your smoke alarms)

For handy tips from our partner, Worcester Bosch, please click here: Worcester Bosch.

 

Electric heaters

If you have electric heating such as storage heating, we will visit annually just to check your smoke alarms.

Appliances that are serviced regularly are less likely to break down. Just think about the inconvenience when your heating system breaks down unexpectedly...no heating and no hot water!

We will need gas and electricity to service the gas appliances within your home. If you have prepayment meters, please make sure there is credit in them when we call. If we can't carry out the gas safety check because there is no gas or electricity, we may have to turn the gas supply off temporarily for your own safety.

 

Top tips to stay gas safe

We rely on our gas boilers and fires to keep warm, have hot baths and showers and our cookers to cook hot meals. It’s important that gas appliances are safety checked every year and regularly serviced to help keep us safe and prevent them from breaking down when we need them the most.

Where you wish to install your own gas appliance such as a cooker, you will need to ensure that you only use a gas safe registered engineer.

  • Unsafe gas appliances can put you at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, gas leaks, fires and explosions. The symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include headaches, dizziness, nausea, breathlessness, collapse and loss of consciousness
  • Check gas appliances for warning signs that they are not working properly e.g. lazy yellow flames instead of crisp blue ones, black marks or stains on or around the appliance and too much condensation in the room
  • Only use gas appliances for their intended purpose e.g. don’t use a gas oven or gas hob to heat a room or use a gas barbecue inside the house

Always ensure there is enough ventilation for your gas appliances to allow them to burn correctly. Do not block any air vents.