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Domestic - Rental
Do you need an electrical safety certificate?
Homes in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) have a requirement to have a
Period Inspection Report (PIR) of circuits and wiring carried out every
3 years. Landlords are also required to carry out Portable Appliance
testing (PAT) on any electrical equipment they provide (toasters,
kettle, fridge, TV etc) every three years (although PAT’s are in
themselves only valid for one year).
Any Landlords that want to join the Edinburgh Landlord Accreditation
scheme will require a Periodic Inspection Report undertaken every three
years, and Portable Appliance testing done annually.
From 03.09.07 the Tolerable Standard within The
Housing (Scotland) Act
1987 has been extended. Electrical wiring, components and fittings must
be adequate and safe to use. An electrical check such as a Periodic Inspection Report (PIR) is
likely to be the only way to be certain that wiring is adequate and
safe to use.
Does a rented property need a Smoke Detector?
From 03.09.07 all rented property must meet the Repairing Standard. As part of the new Repairing Standard,
landlords must make sure that the property they rent out has
“satisfactory provision for detecting and giving warning of fires.”
To meet the standard there has to be at least one working smoke
alarm on each floor of a property. Any smoke alarms installed from
03.09.07 must be mains wired. Existing smoke alarms can be either mains
powered or battery powered. If broken smoke alarms are replaced after
03.09.07 they must be mains wired.
In the case of HMO property where there is a more stringent smoke alarm requirement, this part of the Repairing Standard will only be met when the HMO smoke alarm conditions are met.
You may need a Building Warrant to fit a hard wired smoke alarm. Contact the Building Standards department.
Some of the services we supply:-
Periodical Testing -
PIR
Every 3 years for Rental*
Portable Appliance Testing -
PAT
Annually as part of fire risk assesment
Smoke Alarms
Installation, testing and
certifying
Fire Alarms
Design, installation, testing and
certifying
Carbon Monoxid Alarms
Installation, testing and
certifying
Emergency Lighting
Installation, testing and
certifying
Fixed Wire
Installations
For more information on how
we can help, call us on:
0845 094 9468
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