Carbon monoxide detectors help you stay safe at home

We work to ensure our homes are maintained to a high standard and are safe, secure and warm for our tenants.

To do this, we must carry out a variety of checks on your property each year, including a gas safety check to make sure your appliances are safe to use, as faulty or unsafe gas appliances can cause carbon monoxide poisoning.

Your home has been fitted with a carbon monoxide detector and it will activate if there is too much carbon monoxide in the air in your property. Please note that the alarm needs to be present in any room where there is a gas appliance fitted. It’s not required for a cooker, so a kitchen is excluded unless that’s where your boiler is fitted.

If you have been affected by carbon monoxide poisoning you may feel dizzy, sick, tired, breathless, suffer chest pains or you may even lose consciousness.

If you think there is carbon monoxide in your home, please call the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999 immediately.

If you’re a leaseholder or shared owner, it’s your responsibility to make sure that a carbon monoxide detector is fitted and the gas appliances in your home are safe. We recommend you get a gas safety check once a year, too. If you want to arrange a gas safety check in your home, you can check the official list of gas registered engineers on the Gas Safe Register https://www.gassaferegister.co.uk.