By Lenore & JanetPublished: September 21, 2010Posted in: Advice for Edinburgh Landlords, Advice for Landlords, Advice for London LandlordsTags: Electrical installation safety, fire extinguishers, Gas safety, PAT tests, smoke alarms
As responsible landlords, we want to ensure the safety and well being of anyone staying in our properties.
We are often asked about legal requirements for safety. These are surprisingly limited for self-catering properties – just the need for an annual gas safety certificate. We have looked, and not been able to find, any legal requirement for a certificate of safety for your electrical installation, or electrical appliances. Nor have we found requirements for smoke alarms or fire extinguishers.
In our view properties should have regular safety checks on the electrical installation, appliances should be PAT tested, smoke alarms should be installed and fire extinguishers should be available, especially in kitchens.
We’d be pleased to hear if anyone has identified other regulations
About the Author
Lenore Kennedy and Janet Unsworth run Self-catering-online.com, an internet holiday letting site. Self-catering-online.com is an internet advertising service for self-catering properties/short term/holiday let properties. People interested in properties to let for anything from a few days up to a 5 months can search for properties that are available for the dates they want, see the prices, converse with owners and book on-line. The web-site first went live for properties in Edinburgh in December 2007. We added on-line booking in June 2008 and in 2010 launched our service for London properties.
