Don't let an expired gas certificate void your insurance

Annual gas safety inspections (CP42 Gas Safety Records), appliance service history, Gas Safe Register engineer details, and carbon monoxide alarm checks.

Not the HSE. Duty Room checked the HSE's public register of convictions across every accommodation and food-service category: zero gas safety prosecutions in roughly five years. That is not because nobody enforces. The Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998 allocate hotels, restaurants, pubs, and holiday parks to local-authority Environmental Health, and it is the council that investigates and, in England and Wales, prosecutes; in Scotland the case goes to the Crown Office. Who enforces what maps the split.

The mechanism is subtler than a named exclusion, and worse. Most policies never mention the CP42; they carry a reasonable-precautions clause requiring compliance with statutory obligations, and a lapsed gas record is evidence the maintenance duty was not met. Under the Insurance Act 2015, a careless answer about your certificates when buying cover can also cost you the claim. How insurers treat gas records goes through the wordings.

No. Any premises with gas appliances (boilers, ovens, heaters) has gas safety records to keep.

Yes. LPG (propane and butane) appliances need gas safety records just like mains gas, whether they run off cylinders or a bulk tank. Duty Room keeps those records, certificates, and CO alarm checks per site. Check that your Gas Safe engineer holds the LPG category for the work.

LPG runs on the same law as mains gas, and for let accommodation regulation 36 requires an annual gas check and a Landlord Gas Safety Record; HSE treats holiday cottages, static caravans, and narrowboats as let accommodation. The bulk tank is usually the supplier's responsibility under a written agreement; the pipework from the tank to the building usually belongs to whoever owns the premises, the landlord where the site is let, so check the supply agreement and the lease. Gas safety for holiday accommodation draws the ownership map.

Not under the Gas Safety Regulations: dispense CO2 sits under COSHH and the confined-spaces rules instead, and the hazard is asphyxiation rather than fire, because CO2 is heavier than air and pools at floor level in an unventilated cellar. No statute names a fixed CO2 alarm; the risk assessment is what typically ends up requiring one. Cellar gas safety for dispense systems covers the stack of duties.

Duty Room flags upcoming expirations and overdue certificates so you can book your engineer in before there's a gap in your records.

No. A Gas Safe registered engineer does the inspection and issues the Gas Safety Record. Duty Room keeps those records organised per site and tracks when the next one is due.

No. Duty Room gives you organised records of the certificates, visits, and checks you've set up. The work itself, and whether it meets your obligations, is between you and your Gas Safe registered engineer.

CO alarm checks are part of the gas safety blueprint. Log test dates, battery replacements, and alarm locations per site.

Yes. Attach scanned certificates directly to each site's gas record. They stay on file with your other gas records.

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