Gas Safety Check

A gas safety check isn’t just specific to boilers, but relates to any gas appliances, including cookers and fires too. It doesn’t involve the inspection of specific parts. Instead, it ensures that everything is running as it should be. This could include checking:

• The boiler pressure
• The air supply
• That gas is being burned correctly and efficiently
• Flues and chimneys to ensure the flue gases can escape
• Safety devices

The check will test any cut-off devices, such as safety valves, are working. These devices ensure that, if there is a problem with your boiler, the gas supply to the boiler will be shut off to keep you and your household safe.

It’s particularly important that landlords keep up to date with gas safety checks in their properties, otherwise they could be neglecting their responsibilities under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.

It is also important to note that the check is difference to an appliance service. You should think of  a safety check and a boiler service as the equivalent of an  MOT and service on your vehicle. The MOT checks that it’s safe to drive on the road while the service checks individual parts and involves changing fluids such as oil if needed. A car’s MOT is equivalent to a boiler’s safety check, while the service is similar in principle to a boiler’s service.