Gas Safety Certificates (CP12) in Liversedge

A typical Liversedge terrace has a combi on the kitchen wall or in a bedroom cupboard, a gas hob or cooker, and quite often a gas fire in the front room that nobody has lit for years but nobody has disconnected either. All of them count. The CP12 covers every gas appliance in the property, not only the boiler, together with the flue each one relies on and the ventilation it needs to burn safely.

Older terraces have usually been worked on several times — a new kitchen, a knocked-through living room, a bathroom refit — and each round of work is a chance for something to change around an appliance without anyone thinking about the gas. A cupboard built around a boiler, a vent covered during decorating, a flue boxed in behind new units. Those are the things a proper inspection is there to pick up, and in this kind of housing they turn up often enough that we look for them as routine.

If something does not pass, the reason goes on the record and we explain it in plain terms to you or your agent. Where it needs a repair, one fixed price is agreed before any work starts. Where the honest answer is a replacement boiler, you get a free written quote rather than a decision made on the doorstep.

Many Liversedge houses have had their hot water cylinder taken out and a combi fitted in its place, and a fair number of those are now let. For the gas safety check the conversion itself is not the point. What we are looking at is the appliance that is there now, the route its flue takes, and whether the space around it still gives it what it needs.

Where the history does matter is in what got left behind. A conversion done in stages can leave an old fire still on the gas, or a boiler in a new position with its flue running a different way through the house from the one before. We follow each flue from the appliance to where it leaves the building and check every appliance that is still connected, whether or not the tenant ever uses it.

If the boiler is due a service too, it can be done on the same visit. They are separate jobs with separate paperwork, but one appointment means one arrangement with the tenant instead of two, and the certificate is still issued on the day.

Plenty of the landlords we work for in Liversedge own more than one property here, often spread between Hightown, Littletown, Norristhorpe and Millbridge. Where the renewal dates allow, we put those properties into one run of visits rather than coming out separately for each. Every property still gets its own full inspection and its own record.

Access is something we sort out directly. Give us the tenant's details and we will contact them, agree a time and carry out the check without you having to be there. If a letting agent manages the properties, we can deal with the agent and invoice them, so the paperwork lands with whoever actually handles it.

For a house between tenancies, book the check before the new tenant moves in, since they are entitled to their copy beforehand. With our base at Hartshead minutes away, fitting an empty property in is usually a case of finding a gap in the diary rather than waiting until we are next over this side.