Gas safety

We carry out a gas safety check every year in all homes that have a gas appliance or gas meter.

We will let you know in advance when your gas servicing appointment is, and we’ll also send you a text reminder before we visit. It’s really important that you are at home to let us in to do this.

If your home has a gas heating or hot water appliance it needs to be checked and serviced every year. This is a legal requirement for us, as your landlord, and we must be allowed access to complete this vital work.

In addition to carrying out the gas safety checks, we also use an external auditor to carry out inspections of our work. This company is called Morgan Lambert and they will write to customers prior to attending homes to carry out the audit.

What's involved in our gas safety checks

Watch this video and listen to Sam explain what's involved in our gas safety checks and why it's important that you let us in to carry them out.

If we've arranged your gas safety check for a date you can't make, please contact us as soon as possible so we can rearrange this for you.

If you smell gas, please follow these simple steps:

Turn off the gas supply – the on/off lever can be found by the gas meter.
Open all windows and doors
Do not turn on or off any lights or sockets, strike matches or light cigarettes.
Contact the National Gas Emergency Service immediately to report a gas leak on FREEPHONE 0800 111 999.

It doesn’t matter what time day or night you ring –you will be asked by the call handler to give your address, post code and the following information.

The address/location of the suspected gas escape or gas emergency
How many people are at the property where the smell is most noticeable?
How long the smell has been noticeable?
Is the smell coming from the cellar/basement?
Are any neighbours affected?
Your name and phone number
Any special circumstances or access information

National Grid engineers will always 'make safe' when called to a suspected gas escape. This will generally be by switching off the gas supply.

Once the national grid engineer has made sure you are safe, contact us on 0800 358 6025 and we will help you get your gas supply switched back on. If the gas leak was from your gas meter, we will advise you to contact your gas supplier. If the gas leak was from the gas appliance we will send one of our operatives to fix the problem.