It was probably a typo. Gas certificate should expire in one year, not one month. I have contacted him a number of times via ‘OR contact supplier’ as well as OR customer service and I still haven’t got a single reply. What should I do now?
I would ask OR to give you a second gas safety check at their expense.
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I can’t see how their gas inspection service is sustainable, so many problems reported.
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Hi @Hong_Ki
I’m very sorry to hear about this. I can see we’ve been in contact earlier this week to confirm that we’re chasing the supplier to update this.
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It’s possible they postdated it… you’re allowed to carry out a check up to 30 days prior to the cert expiring and then use the expiry date as next year’s date for expiry. It’s possible they did this for day/month but then accidentally wrote this year instead of 2026. Still, it’s not valid as it stands and needs to be rectified.
Checks can be carried out upto 2months early, whilst preserving the expiry date.
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ah yes… sorry… I knew that but wrote 1 month by mistake.
Just goes to show how easy it is to do 
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Well, that’s my case. The certificate expires in Jan and I did my inspection in Dec (a month in advance). The expiry date in the new certificate should be January in two years. The engineer made a mistake and put it as Jan next year.
I have tried that too. OR ignored my message.
OR couldn’t get hold of him. Now they asked me to resolve it directly with the supplier - Super Plumbers, Harlow. daler.singh87 outlook com
Inspections of rented properties are carried out under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998.
Regulation 36 clearly describes the information included in the Gas Safety Record (sometimes incorrectly referred to as a certificate). There is no mention of an expiration date.
The deadline for the next inspection is described in Regulation 36a.
In short, the rule is the same as for the MOT, but here the landlord has two months to schedule an earlier inspection, rather than one. There is also no shared database, and calculating these deadlines is the landlord’s responsibility.
A gas engineer has no authority to shorten or extend this deadline.
In my opinion, this column is simply a reminder for your convenience and has no legal effect.
I understand this may be difficult to explain to an agent or anyone else. I’m sorry you found yourself in this situation.
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you mean always referred to as a certificate by the general public who, until now, have remained happily ignorant, and from now on will be racked with guilt every time they erroneously use the word certificate
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