All-Party Parliamentary group call for all landlords to fit CO alarms

Would this ruling, if its enacted, also be applied to local authority and housing association rented properties?

Why is the life of tenants more important than those who own their own homes and are not required by law to fit smoke or CO detectors? Tenants who often don't pay rent on time and regularly falls behind on paying rent, which is also low on their list of priorities, holidays, shopping, eating out, presents and toys seems high on the list of some tenants, whilst landlords struggle to pay their bills and mortgage on time, without a gap, or face a repossession, and meet tons of regulations, whilst home owner's life seems least important in the eyes of the Government, yet many councils ignore some of the strict rules themselves, we all saw what happened when they cut corner on saving money using low and substandard insulation boards at Grenfell. What they don't understand is that money is not free-flowing for all landlords and we all have budgets to stick to and we cannot borrow money like our Governments can do.

Been fitting mine for years along with fire alarms .

My understanding is that the risk from a balanced or fan-flued device (such as all modern combination boilers) is zero if properly installed - even if it is faulty. This is because such a boiler doesn't take in or push out any air from the property, it is a sealed system where the air is taken from and returned to the outside. This isn't addressed in the APPCOG report.

My guess is that these are by far the most common form of fuel-burning heating in rented properties in UK and that in say 70% of such properties they are the *only* form of fuel-burning heating.

Wouldn't it make much more sense to require CO detectors only in rented properties with an open-flue fuel-burning device, such as a fire (including a gas fire) or a back boiler? This would extend the existing requirements (which only cover solid fuel devices) but in a sensible way. The wider extension envisaged by APPCOG (to properties with any fuel-burning device) just increases regulation and cost for landlords and agents (by say 2.5x) with no safety gain.

Also worth bearing in mind that although the cost of CO detectors, if battery-powered, may not be very high, there is the ongoing administrative burden of ensuring continued compliance (as with all regulations).

The regulations should be as wide as needed and no wider.

I fitted co alarms in my properties last year. Didn't have to but assumed this legislation would be coming anyway. They are not expensive. If, however, a ruling comes in requiring all smoke alarms to be hard wired, that WILL be expensive! The Gov has to apply all these new laws to the SRS too, otherwise the idea that the legislation is designed to protect tenants is unsupportable. Are SRS tenants' lives less valuable than those in the PRS?

Another chane to kick start improvement works in our houses to keep the system going whilst they take more tax from us. If houses could vote. With your electrical check have a mains powered one installed then its done nice and simple

I'm fairly sure fitting carbon monoxide detectors in all rental properties was in the first drafts of the The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015, but was taken out very late on whilst the bill was being scrutinized in the House of Lords. It seems to me it was inevitable that it would later be added as an amendment.
Looking at some of the above comments I dumbfounded by others reactions at the prospect of having to install CO alarms. This isn't only about protecting tenants, imagine being responsible for a tenants death because of a boiler malfunction and there being no early warning.

In Aldi at the moment, Kidde CO alarms, with Duracell batteries at £9.95 instead of £15. Picked up half a dozen this morning ... no brainer really

Its Not the cost of Co2 alarm that's the issue , its the evidence base for why Co2 only seems to affect PRS tenants !
And Why does the ALLCOCK group make reference to Grenfell ?
that's just jumping on the bandwagon, the issues at Grenfell were a faulty electrical appliance that had been recalled, and cladding that wasn't fire-proof.

Been fitting these in all properties for years. For what they cost it's not worth it. But with mains powered smoke alarms when tenants remove the body of the alarm to stop it going off they invariably break them. So its 7 year sealed battery smoke alarms for me now as they are cheaper to replace.