Commercial kitchens and
boiler rooms need a
commercial engineer.
A domestic gas safety certificate does not cover a restaurant kitchen or a commercial boiler. The engineer needs commercial qualifications, the kitchen needs a working gas interlock, and your insurer, landlord and environmental health officer will all ask to see the record. We arrange the inspection, the certificate and any repairs it finds.
Restaurants, cafes,
offices and landlords.
Any business with gas appliances: restaurants, cafes, takeaways, pubs, hotels, school and staff kitchens, and offices or shops heated by a commercial boiler. The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 require gas appliances and pipework at work to be maintained in a safe condition, and the work to be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer competent for that type of appliance.
The law does not set a fixed annual date for commercial premises the way it does for residential lets, but in practice insurers, commercial landlords, leases and environmental health officers expect an annual inspection record, and a kitchen that cannot produce one is a problem at an inspection or after an incident. For catering the record is commonly called a CP42. Landlords of mixed use buildings with flats above a shop may need both a commercial record and a landlord gas safety certificate.
The interlock is
the usual failure.
In a commercial kitchen, gas appliances under a canopy should be interlocked with the extraction, so gas cannot flow to the appliances unless the extract fan is running. This is set out in the standard for commercial kitchen ventilation, BS 6173, and it is the item most often found missing or bypassed in older kitchens. A kitchen without it, or with it wired out, will usually fail.
The inspection also covers the emergency isolation valve, a tightness test on the pipework, each appliance's flame supervision and burner operation, flues where there are any, and whether ventilation is adequate for the appliances installed. Where an appliance is unsafe it is made safe and labelled, and the record says why.
Interlock and extraction faults often go together with grease build up in the ductwork. If the canopy and duct need cleaning to TR19, or the kitchen needs work to lift a food hygiene rating, that is work we do as well, so the gas, the extraction and the building fabric are dealt with in one programme.
The right engineer,
and the record the same day.
Commercial gas work has to be done by an engineer whose Gas Safe ID card shows the commercial categories for the work, such as commercial catering or commercial heating. A domestic only engineer cannot legally sign off a commercial kitchen. Our engineers carry their Gas Safe ID and their registration number is on the record, so your insurer or an inspector can check it.
The right record
for the premises.
Commercial catering (CP42)
The record most restaurants, cafes, takeaways and staff kitchens are asked for. It covers catering appliances, the interlock and ventilation, isolation and the pipework serving the kitchen.
Non-domestic appliances (CP17)
For commercial boilers, water heaters and other non-domestic gas appliances in offices, shops and other business premises.
Pipework testing and purging
New, altered or extended commercial pipework is tightness tested and purged, and the result recorded, before appliances are put back into service.
Residential lets above shops
A flat above commercial premises is a domestic let and needs a landlord gas safety record (CP12) every 12 months, separate from the commercial record.
From booking
to certificate.
1. Tell us the premises
The type of business, the appliances and the last record if you have one, so we send an engineer with the right commercial categories.
2. Inspection around your hours
Kitchens are usually inspected before service or after close so trading is not interrupted.
3. Record the same day
The record is issued the same day. Anything that fails is explained and quoted separately in writing.
4. Repairs and next date
Once repairs are approved and completed, the record is updated and the next inspection date goes in the diary. Electrical testing for the same premises is covered on our commercial EICR page, and kitchen works on commercial kitchens.
Questions we get
asked most.
Get a written
price.
Monday to Saturday 9am to 8pm, Sunday 9am to 3pm. All London boroughs.
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alongside this.
Areas we cover.
We take commercial gas safety inspections across all 32 London boroughs. Most of our work is in west London, in Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chiswick and White City, and in south west London, in Putney, Wandsworth and Wimbledon. We also work in south east London, in Greenwich, Blackheath and Lewisham.
If your property is outside these areas, call us anyway. We travel across London and will tell you honestly if a job is too far to price properly.