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 and record the test.