Posted: Tue Oct 1, 2019 2:56pm
Hi Peter,
Your agent is wrong. The only appliances that the certification does not apply to is free-standing appliances that use a direct connection to one gas bottle of less than 15kg, such as portable heaters.
All "installed" appliances, e.g. gas fires, water heaters, cookers, etc., whether run on natural gas or bottled gas, must be certified on installation and re-certified every 5 years. To have any of these appliances fitted in your home, where there is no natural gas supply, you would need a bottled gas contract with a supplier such as Repsol or Cepsa. Before this contract is approved, the supplier will require
a safety inspection, when it will check the property where the gas
appliance is to be used. Re-certification should then be arranged through the bottled gas supplier.
As you say the property you're interested in buying has a bottled gas cooker and water heater, it would have been a legal requirement to have the original installations certified and a legal requirement for those certifications to have been renewed every 5 years. Some companies will send letters, reminding owners that recertification is due; if that hasn't happened, perhaps the owner has forgotten, or maybe, lost their last certificates?
Kind regards,
Kim