Gas Safety Certificate

[pussyfoot]

Hi do you have to supply a gas safety certificate when you sell a property.

Thanks in advance

[buildersmate]

When a new gas appliance is installed, the Gas Safe technician issues certification. This is part of Building Control regulations and it acts as a commissioning certificate. It lasts forever.
There is no need to have any other certificate in relation to gas when you sell the property. The buyer will want to confirm that Building Regs were met in relation to gas appliances, but that's it.

Landlords require an annual check of gas appliances on tenanted property, but that is not required for a straight house sale.

[DaisyNonna]

Was told by last chap inspecting my gas appliances
that it was no longer a gas safety certificate.

[Svejk]

I had to pay for a Gas Safety Cert. (and inspection) when I sold a house a couple of years ago.

[buildersmate]

I stand by my answer.
Providing tittle-tattle purporting to be answers is unhelpful. I also hear things down the pub, but they don't often validate as factually correct statements.

I worded my answer specifically as I did as a landlord property owner selling a property with a tenant in it would have to provide a copy of the annual gas safety record, as required under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998.

[Svejk]

Its not tittle-tattle if it's a fact.
Now perhaps they've changed the law in the last couple of years.
Or perhaps I had to get one because it was an old system. I don't know but get one I did.(£95)
So it's not tittle-tattle and it wasn't heard in the pub.

[Svejk]

It's also possible that I was misled by the Estate Agent who told me I had to, by law, have one.

[buildersmate]

So please tell us who insisted you have such a check done.
Possibly no Building Regs record existed for the installation in the first place. Then the buying conveyancer would have picked this up, you would have been in contravention of BR and a Gas Safe registered technician would have been required to resolve the issue.

[buildersmate]

There you go then. I suggest you never quote what an estate agent tells you as a fact. They know nothing about how houses are put together, unless they are Chartered. Most are just fresh faced lads recently out of school.

[Svejk]

It was an EPC I had, Mr O'Reilly. But then I expect you knew that, didn't you?
https://www.gov.uk/buy-sell-your-home/energy-performance-certificates

[buildersmate]

// Its not tittle-tattle if it's a fact. //

Ah, so not a fact then. Apology appropriate for misleading the OP?

[BRIGHT SPARK]

That might be a no then pussy.

[Svejk]

For ordinary people like me & puss, if someone comes to your house, inspects your boiler, takes £95 off you and gives you a certificate. Whether they call it a GSC or an EPC is neither here nor there. You have to have it and it costs money. But if I have caused any confusion I do beg pardon.

[buildersmate]

GSC : an inspection by a suitably qualified person of a domestic appliance using gas as a primary fuel, to establish that the former is operating correctly

EPC : an inspection of the external fabric of a domestic dwelling to evaluate its current ability to hold the heat in, and comment on future potential to improve its thermal performance.

My definitions, admittedly, but sounds like two very different things to me. Then again, I do aim to set myself up here as a supplier of high quality and accurate answers - apart from 17th Electrical Regs questions where I bow to BS's greater understanding. BM