In article , Nightjar
writes
On 14/03/2015 19:44, Phil L wrote:
"nemo" wrote in message
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We're told that we need to have our rental property inspected to comply
with H&SE requirements and that it will cost £81 every two years for the
privilege.

You are legally required to carry out a risk assessment and two years is
the longest period between reviews of the assessment. They can be more
frequent and should be renewed whenever there is a change to the system.

Local authorities, or anybody with a large number of identical
properties can do a single group risk assessment, so don't need to look
at every individual property to comply. Testing for Legionella is not
part of the assessment. Deciding whether the water supplies are properly
protected against insects entering stored water, considered to be the
main vector, is.

I don't think it would take either of us long to do a risk assessment on
insect ingress on a combi based hot water system such as the o/p has.
Personally, I might be tempted not to review it at 2 years either but
hey, I like to live dangerously ;-)
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