Safety regulations in rental properties

New regulations were introduced in October 2015 for the private rented sector which requires every landlord to install smoke and carbon monoxide alarms on each floor of a property, and provide evidence that a smoke alarm inspection has taken place and are working at the start of each tenancy. 

Non-compliance fines are a maximum of £5,000 for each failure. 

A professional property inventory

As a Professional Inventory company, we will ensure you are kept compliant as we check alarms are correctly positioned and functional at check in and if required, install new ones where necessary.  

On most new property management instructions, we regularly find detectors are out of date. They often have a replace by date of approximately 10 years after installation. Faulty detectors are guaranteed up until this date, and effectiveness/safety levels drop afterwards (approximately 30% chance of failure), so MUST be replaced.

Some properties now have interlinked (connected to one another) smoke detectors. When connected they will all be activated at the same time ensuring everyone in the property is alerted. These types of alarms are either joined by a wire, or connected via radio frequency.

Property Inspection reports

Our digital reports have a smoke and carbon monoxide safety section that will guarantee you meet the regulations should it need to be checked/inspected – we test alarms at every interim inspection too.