Gas safety checks and precautions, home safety advice and information
Do you want to keep your family safe? Do you have your gas appliances checked annually? Do you want helpful advice about carbon monoxide?
We all want to keep everyone in our home as safe as we possibly can, but often the safety of gas appliances is overlooked they go without regular servicing. This is when serious problems can occur.
Only Gas Safe Registered engineers can carry out work on gas and fit, fix and service boilers, gas fires and most types of gas cookers in your home - it’s the law. Keeping your family safe from dangerous and illegal gas work is Gas Safe Register’s top priority. If anyone other than a Gas Safe Registered engineer carries out any kind of gas work in your home, you are risking the safety of your family and your property.
RD Gas Heating & Plumbing are Gas Safe Registered ( 506523) we carry an ID card with our own unique licence number. On the back of the ID card there is a list of what gas appliances our engineers are qualified to work on. So, the message from Gas Safe Register is clear: make sure you ask for the ID card and check the front and back.before you have any gas work done in your home.
Gas Safe Register's top tips:
- Always have every one of your gas appliances, including boilers, gas cookers and gas fires, safety checked annually
- Always use a Gas Safe Registered engineer to fit, fix and check gas appliances in your home - it is the law and will help keep you safe
- Always ask to see an engineer's Gas Safe ID card and check the back of the card to ensure they are qualified to carry out the specific type of gas work you need
- Try to recognise the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning - headaches, dizziness, nausea, breathlessness, collapse or loss of consciousness
- Check gas appliances for warning signs that they are not working properly e.g. lazy yellow flames instead of crisp blue ones, black marks or stains on or around the appliance and too much condensation in the room
- Buy one or more audible carbon monoxide alarms for your home and make sure it is located close to your gas appliances in accordance with the manufacturer’s guidance. Carbon monoxide can leak from appliances and kill
- Only use gas appliances as they were intended to be used e.g. don’t use a gas oven to heat a room or use a gas barbecue inside the house
- Always ensure there is plenty of ventilation for your gas appliances to allow them to burn correctly and ensure you are not blocking any air vents that provide an air supply to any gas appliance
- Anybody working with gas has to be Gas Safe Registered by law. To report someone working without registration, call Gas Safe Register on the free phone number 0800 408 5500
Don't take risks by using an unregistered, illegal 'gas engineer'. Ensure your gas appliances are serviced annually. Please call RD Gas Heating & Plumbing today on 0797 787 5000
