Owning a mobile home can be fun, take a weekend with your family, and spend long periods in the summer, but how safe is your mobile home?
Your mobile home is like an extension of your main home and, as such, requires annual gas safety checks to make sure you and your family are safe.
So what is a mobile home security inspection?
Like homes, all gas appliances should be inspected and serviced.
But why do we only use a mobile phone for about 10 weeks a year?
It is probably more important to check the security of a mobile home on gas than your main house, because it is not occupied most of the year, while the house.
So what should you check?
First, we need to find a company registered for safe gas, registered for work in the CIS, which can also conduct a mobile home security inspection.
You may already know someone who is safely registered, an engineer who checks your main house, but they cannot be registered to work in the CIS.
The best way to find a gas liquefaction engineer is to contact the gas safe, either through your website or call them, they can connect you with someone who can work in the CIS.
Checks
First, we need to establish that there is no gas leakage, we do this by conducting a leak test, it will cause any leaks.
Hoses connected to gas cylinders that supply gas to your mobile phone may deteriorate over time and need to be replaced.
All hoses that are attached to your mobile home have a date stamp on them and, accordingly, must be checked and replaced accordingly.
Equipment
Most mobile homes have some form of heating, for earlier models this could be a gas fire, and a newer model is a central heating boiler.
Regardless of the form of heating, it must be checked to ensure that it is safe to use.
Gas fires
It is necessary to check the gas fire, making sure that the on and off switch works freely and does not turn much.
One of the most important checks is to make sure that the chimney is not blocked and correctly removes the combustion products, in other words, does not allow carbon monoxide into the room.
Since mobile phones are only used for a short period of time throughout the year, everything happens, things like chimneys pushing out the top of the mobile home are blocked.
They can be blocked by leaves from above-ground trees, even birds that make nests, so it is vital that an inspection of the safety of a mobile home is carried out.
Boilers
Just like your home, the boiler needs annual maintenance to ensure that everything works as it should be and to ensure that it is safe to use.
Kitchen appliances
If you have a gas oven and a stove on your mobile phone, they should also be checked, just to make sure that they are in good working condition and safe to use again.
Site rules
No matter where your home is, you will find that all parks require you to conduct this home safety inspection once a year. They would also like to receive a certificate of inspection and make a copy of their records.
Rent to friends
There may come a time when you rent your mobile home to your friends, in order to make some extra money, we all like to do a little more.
But now you need to conduct another inspection, which is called the inspection of the security of gas landlords (CP12).
Even if you rent it for one day, you will need this check on landlord conditions.
Conclusion
Conducting a security inspection of a mobile home at home is all about security.
In most cases, the mobile home is empty, and, like all things, when not in use, they may get stuck or broken when you start using them again.
Always be happy and have fun on your mobile phone, but the most important thing is to be safe.
