my tuppence worth on this, (if it is worth that much haha) you list ALL appliances on the CP1, this ensures that the checks and visual inspection carried out was on THAT EXACT cooker, what i mean by that is, you do all the usual stuff visual TT etc, the cooker is OK, but you dont list the cooker make and model, their favourite brother in law is getting a brand new gas cooker and donates his old one to the job we are talking about, there is a gas leak due to numpty head fitting it badly, EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG end up in the house discussing how many bits we are going to cut the gas engineers bits up into as he is incompetant, if this was you how would you PROVE the cooker had been changed, would the tenant admit the changeover? eh no, so what i do is list make and model, do TT all OK, gas leak gets reported we all inspect "new" cooker doesn't match my cert , bye bye i'm off the hook,
CMairiD you might like this one, I used to make the engineers list the make and model of ELECTRIC cookers on the CP1 (after discussion with the landlords) took 3-4 seconds, and we were in behing it checking the position/security of the bayonet, or recording the pipe has been blanked, housing are now aware there is electric cooker in prop, next year we go back and lo and behold there is now a gas cooker, has the tenant got written permission to fit a gas cooker, do they have receipt from GSR firm, prob no, so when you log second cert, i KNOW you cross ref info with last years you will notice the changed cooker and pull the tenant up, (what do you mean you dont have time to cross ref the info when you put the new cert away, how else do you note that last years 1mb drop is now 2mb drop and you should consider locating fixing as it is getting worse)