Gas and Electrical Safety Inspection
The Gas & Electrical Safety Inspection is recommended in order to ensure that your utilities comply with existing gas and electrical safety legislation.
The Gas & Electrical Safety inspection is a visual inspection plus a Residual Current Device (RCD) test and an inspection of up to three gas appliances and seven electrical appliances.
Communication is the key
When companies have worked together successfully for nearly a decade, it often boils down to one vital ingredient - communication.
Thus it is with the relationship between Chancellors and their preferred supplier gas-elec group, beginning at the top with their respective chief executives, James Scott-Lee and John Davidson.
Chancellors is the 13th largest estate agency in the country, with 50 branches throughout NW and central London, and the home counties through to mid-Wales. gas-elec group has more than 100 safety inspection engineers throughout the UK providing impartial inspections and remedial works to the lettings industry and homeowners. gas-elec group has been a supplier to Chancellors for over ten years.
For Scott-Lee, there are a variety of good reasons for Chancellors' choice of gas-elec group as their Preferred Supplier:
"We have agreed service standards with gas-elec group" he says. "That means we can rely upon them to do the work, or tell us about a problem, without us having to continually chase them. And when problems occur - as they inevitably will when you are talking about hundreds of inspections - we have established channels of communication that will get them fixed pretty quickly."
Another advantage, he says, is that gas-elec group's systems double check Chancellors' systems, ensuring that every one of their tenancies always has the appropriate gas certificate. In addition, Chancellors encourage their clients to combine gas inspections with a boiler service. "That means they just have one inspection a year and two jobs are done at the same time which produces savings for our clients and less admin for us as property managers," says Scott-Lee.
His belt-and-braces philosophy includes an insistence that no properties are managed by Chancellors unless they first have had an electrical check.
The communication between the two companies is ongoing and highly productive. Currently Chancellors and gas-elec group are working together in two key areas: providing an all-round service to Chancellors' HMO landlords in the light of the new legislation and the development of a central heating maintenance plan.
"We are in the early stages," says Davidson. "Many of our established services have been driven by client demand and when James asked if gas-elec group could provide a central heating maintenance service I decided yes we probably could and we've been developing it with Chancellors' help."
