Property safety · 9 guides
Safety items beyond Gas and Electrical: smoke alarms on every storey, CO alarms in rooms with combustion appliances, PAT testing for supplied portable appliances, legionella risk assessments and fire safety in shared blocks.
Property Safety4 June 2026
No-win-no-fee firms bring disrepair claims against landlords, often advertising straight to tenants. The 2026 guide for landlords and agents: your repairing duties, the hazard timescales social landlords now work to, the pre-action protocol, and the response-time evidence that defeats a claim before it reaches court.
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Property Safety1 April 2026
Where to fit CO alarms (every room with a fixed combustion appliance: gas boilers, gas fires, wood burners), when interlinked smoke alarms are required, the tenancy-start test rule, HMO differences and how to log tests. Penalties up to £5,000 per breach.
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Property Safety1 April 2026
Is PAT testing mandatory for landlords? How it differs from EICR, what to test, typical intervals, and how to keep records for supplied appliances.
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Property Safety17 April 2026
Awaab’s Law has applied to social landlords since 27 October 2025 and the government can now extend it to private rentals, though no date is set: strict timescales for investigating hazards and fixing damp, mould and emergency defects. What private landlords in England should do now, before it applies to them.
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Property Safety17 April 2026
The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 applies the Decent Homes Standard to private rentals for the first time. The Government has now settled it: one standard, five criteria, from 2035. Here is what each criterion asks, including the new damp and mould rule, plus the grace period and how enforcement works.
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Property Safety6 August 2026
Landlord insurance is not one product. It is three or four bought together, and the gaps between them are where claims fail. What buildings cover actually insures, whose contents are whose, why property owners liability is the one that matters most, and who insures a leasehold flat.
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Property Safety6 August 2026
Condensation, penetrating damp, rising damp and a leak look similar on a wall and land very differently in law. The pattern, the height and the timing tell you which one you have, and section 9A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 decides who pays for it.
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Property Safety19 April 2026
A tenant says there’s mould in the bathroom. What you do in the next 14 days decides whether this is a routine fix, or a council enforcement case, an HHSRS Category 1 hazard, a disrepair claim in court and a Rent Repayment Order risk. Step-by-step landlord response with statutory duties, evidence rules and contractor scripts.
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Property Safety18 July 2026
Short answer: no. There is no such thing as a legally required "legionella certificate", whatever the company emailing you says. What the law actually asks for is a simple risk assessment you can usually do yourself. Here is what is real, what is a sales pitch, and how to cover yourself.
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