No carbon monoxide detectors in our rented property

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Are these a requirement?

I’m pretty sure we do not have any, if we did where would we find these?

Thanks

You only need CO detectors where you have solid fuel appliances.

You're moving out - either raise a credible complaint about something you actually have an issue with or just leave and don't be an arsehole? Why are you trying to find things which aren't an issue to complain about?

@frillyfarmer I’m not trying to find issues we don’t have, earlier in the thread I listed issues we have had. Which I intend you file a complaint for, with this particular issue I wanted to check if this is a legal requirement as I was unsure. I am asking as earlier today somebody pointed out to me we do not have CM detectors. Thank you for your comment though 👍🏼

I was only asking about the deposit as if the LL hasn’t placed it in the correct scheme you can sue for up to 3X the deposit amount. Have you checked if the deposit is protected?

I’m pretty sure they have. I’m not too interested in suing them I just want to file a complaint for various reasons. But thank you for your comments much appreciated

I never thought carbon monoxide detectors were the landlords responsibility, smoke alarms are. You can buy carbon monoxide detectors for around a tenner. Mine's in the kitchen on a shelf.

If you're going to pursue this ... carbon monoxide's chemical formula is CO. "CM" is meaningless. CO2, as used by PP, is carbon dioxide.

You should have asked about the co2 detectors before you moved in

You can buy one yourself for £20 if you are that concerned

It's no CO2 its CO

Either way it's quicker than typing carbon monoxide, colourless, ordourless gas (wink)

We just bought our own. A friend had a near miss with carbon monoxide caused by her gas boiler. I wouldn't be waiting for a landlord to put it in - I'd just buy one per floor and plug them in.

We are moving out in a few days, I went to our new property & LL said you have smoke detectors & CM detectors. I wasn’t sure if they were a legal requirement that’s why I’ve asked this Q because if they were I’d be reporting it to the LL that he needs to get this done ASAP for the new tenants.

The gas central heating boiler in our last house was in my dds bedroom so I bought a carbon monoxide alarm for her room but the plumber said it wasn't required as the boiler wasn't that type 🤷‍♀️

Maybe you don't have any appliances that need one?

It’s not legal requirement to have a carbon monoxide detector for a gas boiler, but I would.

That said, having an carbon monoxide detector for an open fire doesn’t seem to me to be as big a risk as a gas boiler and it’s a legal requirement.

They are cheap as chips, why wouldn’t you have one?

As far as i know, gas is a gas fuel, not solid

list of complaints:

• the rent thing sounds like an admin cockup and should of course be remedied, although a tenant that wanted to do this screams 'can't manage money' and would never get through my door.
• flood etc; that's awful but it does happen. Did the landlord keep you posted, help you out?
• boiler trouble: very slow but what matters is did the landlord chase it up? Test against what you would do if you owned the place. There is no time limit for boiler fixes as gasmen are hard to pin down.

next time check the place over (don't rent a dump) and get informed by reading how to rent. If you had you wouldn't be asking this question.

We have smoke alarms but bought our own carbon monoxide alarm

Sadly, landlords only need to provide a carbon monoxide alarm for solid fuel appliances not Gas - but they do need to provide a Gas Safety Record. Although, hopefully, decent landlords will also provide a carbon monoxide alarm.

@mencken I’m clearly not hard up if I paid thousands to move in, to be honest if they apologised & explained there was nothing they could do that’d be fine with me, no apology was offered they couldn’t even be bothered to ask LL if I could take this back at some point.

Believe me, lesson learnt!

I understand about the boiler they sent 3 different people who scratched their heads told me they’d come back never did, I Kept having to email to chase up or else nobody would have come back. Overall very frustrating experience, an apology goes a long way with me, but in the absence of an apology I am pretty pissed & frustrated

@mencken apologies forgot to add, no support from LL or estate agents, It’d leak from the ceiling everytime we had a bath/shower. Took a silly amount of time to fix. Again a simple apology would have gone a long way but I am yet to receive this & given we are due to move out in 2 days I’d say I’m not going to get this

You can’t complain that the estate agents didn’t fix things because they don’t own the property! Unless the landlord signs an agreement with an estate agent authorising them to make repairs up to a certain amount, the estate agents simply pass on your request for repair to the owner, who is then responsible for the repair. Your tenancy agreement is with the owner, not the letting agency. They usually sign on behalf of the landlord as part of finding the tenant service.

I believe the issue was that the estate agents were not responding to my emails when I reported issues.

Sorry OP just going to use this thread for a question that has popped in my head!

Can anyone tell me whether I should have my carbon monoxide detector next to my boiler or the cupboard where the gas pipes and gas meter are? Or should I have one in each place, the boiler is in my bedroom and the meter in my kitchen. Thanks

Your more than welcome, Lipstick

I would have it at the boiler as that's where it's used and where carbon monoxide could be produced

l've lived in four privately rented houses. All of them had gas heating, all of them had smoke alarms. None have/had carbon monoxide detectors.