Landlord gas & electrical checks

Most landlords need both a CP12 (annual) and an EICR (every 5 years) for each property, plus smoke and CO alarm testing under Welsh law (since December 2022, all rented properties must have interlinked alarms on every storey). We do them in a single visit where the timing aligns, which saves you a tenant disruption and saves us a trip.

What’s included

• CP12: Gas Safety Record covering every gas appliance (boiler, hob, fire, pipework, flue).
• EICR: Electrical Installation Condition Report for the fixed wiring, consumer unit, sockets, switches, and earthing system.
• Smoke + CO alarm test: interlinking integrity, battery health, sensitivity test, replacement of expired units (10-year hardwired or sealed-battery types).
• Both certificates digitally delivered within 48 hours.
• Tenant access coordinated by us where you want; we text directly, follow up, schedule.
• Rectification quote for anything flagged, no obligation to use us for the repair.

Single property vs portfolio

For letting agents managing portfolios, we offer per-property volume rates with quarterly invoicing, single point of contact, and a portal export of every property’s compliance status.

Why bundle them

Two reasons. First, your tenant only has to be home (or out) once per cycle. Second, we catch issues that cross both gas and electrical (like a boiler with a cracked flue and a poorly earthed gas appliance) that get missed when a separate gas engineer and a separate electrician each look at half the picture.

We’ve found a real safety failure of this type roughly once in every 60 properties. It’s why we always send a Gas Safe + NICEIC dual-trade team for these visits.

Welsh smoke alarm law

Since December 2022, all rented properties in Wales must have:

• Interlinked smoke alarms on every storey, regardless of room type.
• Heat alarm in the kitchen if open-plan or adjacent to a sleeping area.
• CO detector in any room with a fixed combustion appliance (boiler, gas fire, log burner).

Most pre-2022 alarm setups don’t comply because they’re not interlinked. We replace with AICO Ei3024 / Ei3018 series interlinked units at portfolio scale, about £45 per alarm fitted, all interlinking radio-paired automatically, certified to BS 5839-6.

Tenant scheduling

We text every tenant directly when you give us their number. We’re polite, we offer two time-windows, and we follow up at 48 hours if there’s no response. About 95% of tenants book on the first or second offer.

We never enter without confirmed access; we always carry letting-agent ID and a printed letter of authority if you’d like one. If a tenant point-blank refuses access, we escalate to you with a written summary of the access attempts (legally important if you eventually need to enforce access via Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act).

Compliance reporting

For portfolios of 6+, you get a portal view of every property:

• Last CP12 date and expiry.
• Last EICR date and expiry (5-year cycle).
• Smoke alarm last test date.
• Outstanding rectification work (with quotes).
• CSV export for compliance audits or insurance renewal.

Common mistakes other firms make

• Doing CP12 and EICR on separate visits. Inefficient for everyone: tenant, agent, the engineers. Bundle saves money and disruption.
• Forgetting the smoke alarm test. Welsh law since 2022; some firms still miss it.
• Lapsing certificate cycles. We email landlords 11 months in for CP12 and 4 years 9 months for EICR. Lapsed certificates put your insurance at risk.

Workmanship and warranty

12-month workmanship guarantee on any rectification work. All certificates registered with Gas Safe (CP12) and NICEIC (EICR), verifiable from the registration number alone.