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Gas & Electrical Safety
Gas Safety Certificates, EICRs and the deadlines that keep a let legal.
What to check before instructing a gas or electrical contractor
A Gas Safe card or an electrician's business card both look reassuring. Neither tells you everything worth checking before they're let loose on a tenanted property.
24 July 2026 · 5 min readTracking Gas Safety, EICR and EPC expiry across a multi-property portfolio
Three certificates, three independent clocks, on every property. Here's why the spreadsheet that worked at ten properties usually stops working well before a hundred.
20 June 2026 · 5 min readWhat to do when a tenant won't give access for a Gas Safety Check
A tenant who won't answer the door doesn't make the legal requirement go away. It just moves the risk from a scheduling problem to a documented right of entry.
17 May 2026 · 4 min readEPC ratings and the minimum standard for a rented property
An Energy Performance Certificate is easy to treat as a box-ticking exercise until the rating itself becomes the compliance issue, not just the paperwork behind it.
13 April 2026 · 4 min readEICR codes explained: what C1, C2, C3 and FI actually mean
An unsatisfactory EICR isn't one thing. The codes attached to each observation decide whether it's an emergency, a same-visit fix, or a note for next time.
10 March 2026 · 4 min readWhen to renew a Gas Safety Certificate, and why leaving it late is riskier than it looks
Renewing too early can shorten next year's deadline. Renewing too late leaves a property with no valid certificate at all. The safe window is narrower than most diaries account for.
4 February 2026 · 5 min readThe Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector, explained
A five-yearly inspection sounds like a distant deadline until it's the one that's overdue. Here's what an EICR actually checks and why the codes on the report matter more than the pass/fail headline.
1 January 2026 · 5 min readGas Safety Certificates: what letting agents and landlords actually need to know
A Gas Safety Certificate is one line on a compliance spreadsheet and a legal condition of letting a property with gas appliances. Here's what actually goes into getting one right.