Caring For Your Property

Landlords have a legal duty of care to ensure their property is safe for tenants. Landlords (or their representatives) are required to perform onsite inspections and testing where applicable. Formal records of these inspections need to be kept on the premises of the let property. It’s not complicated if you have the right advice! We can provide this and let you have full details of the relevant regulations. In summary these are:

 

Gas Safety Regulations

• The Gas Use Regulations (Installation and Use) 1994 and Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1996
• Gas Cooking Appliances (Safety) Regulations 1989

 

All gas appliances in rental property must be checked annually by an engineer recognised by the Council for Registered Gas Installers (CORGI). The Act covers all chimneys and flues as well as central heating boilers, water heaters and cooking appliances.

 

Electrical Regulations

The Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994

Low Voltage Electrical Equipment Regulations 1989

The Plugs and Sockets etc (Safety) Regulations 1994

 

Landlords need to ensure that all electrical equipment, appliances and the electric supply is safe. All new electrical appliances must carry a 'CE' mark and instruction booklets or clear instructions must be provided.

 

Furniture & Furnishings

The Furniture and Furnishings Fire Safety Regulations 1998 (amended 1989 & 1993) imposes fire resistance levels for domestic upholstered furniture, furnishing and other upholstered products present in a residential letting.

 

The General Product Safety Regulations 1994

These regulations describe the Landlords responsibility to show due care and attention to general safety of tenants in their property.

 

Property Quarterly Visits

We ensure that all properties under our management are visited regularly. This is not just a cursory glance over, but a detailed visit using our exclusive check list, based on our many years of experience, to ensure that the property is being well cared for.

 

With our ‘Comprehensive Management Service’, we oversee every aspect of your property maintenance and rental. We draft all inventories and make a photographic record of the property so that this can be used to check for losses and dilapidations during the tenancy. We check in tenants on the day of occupancy and check them out on their day of departure. In between we handle any matter during the term of the let, for example:

• Insurance claims
• Locks and Security
• Breakages
• Repairs & maintenance
• Gas Leaks
• Burst pipes at the weekend!

 

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