What is recorded
- Smoke alarms, by floor
- Carbon monoxide alarms, where there is a fixed combustion appliance
- Portable appliance testing for anything you supply
Why these get missed
They have no certificate arriving in the post to remind you. A gas engineer turns up once a year whether you think about it or not; nobody turns up to check an alarm. So they are the duties that quietly lapse.
HMO fire safety
HMOs carry additional fire safety duties, tracked separately because they are a different regime with different requirements. A single blended score would hide them, which is exactly the wrong outcome for the highest-risk properties.
At the start of a tenancy
Alarms have to be working on the first day of the tenancy, not merely present. Test them, then record the day on the property’s Compliance tab under Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Check: one click for each tenancy.
