Your gas and electrical safety checks | Tenant news

At Habinteg, we take the health and safety of our tenants seriously. As your landlord, our gas and electrical safety checks helps us ensure your home is safe to live in.

Gas safety

It’s important that we check your gas appliances and supply pipe every year to ensure your home is safe.

Please do your best to keep your gas servicing appointments. If you can’t make the appointment, please give us a call to let us know.

To ensure your home remains gas safe:

If you smell gas, open all doors and windows, leave your home, then call the National Gas Emergencies 24/7 freephone number 0800 111 999 to report it. Only use a mobile phone from outside the property.

If you think a gas appliance may be faulty, do not use it.

Never cover appliances or block air vents or outside flues.

Electrical safety

It’s also important that we come into your home every five years to check the safety of your electricity supply and electrical appliances.

Our contractors, CLP Group, carry out the electrical checks. If you've received a letter from them, please allow them access to your home.

If it’s not possible for an engineer to visit you on the date we’ve set, please call us to reschedule it.

Please remember that these checks are a part of your tenancy agreement.

To reduce the risk of fire or injury from an electrical fault:

• Do not try to make any alterations to the wiring, sockets or light fittings in your home. If you’d like to make any changes, please speak to us first.
• Switch off all appliances when you are not using them and always switch off and disconnect your TV from its power source at night.
• Check flexes regularly, never use damaged ones and do not run them under carpets or rugs.
• Never wire more than one electrical appliance into one plug.
• Do not run any appliances from a light fitting.

Want to learn more?

You can find out more about how you can make sure your home and communal areas are a safe place for everyone in our Health and safety in your home hub.