Electrics and gas
A locker of LPG bottles is fixed to the drawbar end of a park home. What gas-safety inspection has the home survey not performed on that locker?
No gas-safety inspection of that locker has been performed. The home survey can note a locker of LPG bottles fixed to the drawbar end, and what of the casing, the pipe and the regulator was in view. It has not tested tightness, checked the hoses, or signed the bottles as fit to use. Gas safety is a different inspection. Seeing the locker is not that inspection, and the report should not be read as one.
Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Written for buyers in England and Wales unless this answer says otherwise. No named surveyor has signed this page. It is general guidance, not a report on your house, and not legal advice.
What is the fuller explanation?
An LPG locker on the drawbar is a gas installation in a tight box: bottles, changeover, regulator and the pipe leaving toward the home. A visual note can say the locker is there and whether a pipe was seen leaving it. It cannot say the joints are sound, the ventilation of the locker is adequate, or the installation has been passed. The home survey did not carry out those checks. Absence of a smell on the day is not a test.
If the bottles are in use, ask a Gas Safe engineer to inspect the LPG installation as gas work, and keep that report separate from the home survey. Tell the solicitor the survey has only described a locker. Do not tell a lender or an insurer that gas safety was signed off because the drawbar end was photographed. The home survey has not performed that inspection.
What should you ask your surveyor?
- What of the locker, the regulator and the pipe did you actually see?
- Did you record a visual note rather than a gas-safety inspection?
- Was any tightness test, or any test at all, outside this visit?
What are the typical next steps?
- Read the note as a locker that was seen, not a gas certificate.
- Instruct a Gas Safe inspection of the LPG installation if it is in use.
- Do not describe the home survey as the gas-safety check.
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Also asked about this
If the locker door shuts, is the installation acceptable?
No. A door that shuts shows a cupboard, not a tested installation. The home survey has not checked joints, hoses or ventilation, and it has not signed the bottles as safe to use. Gas safety is a different inspection from photographing the drawbar locker. The report should not be read as a pass for the LPG bottles.
Does an empty locker clear the gas question?
Only for the bottles that were not there. Pipework left in the locker, or a regulator still fitted, was still not gas-safety tested. The survey has not inspected an installation merely because the bottles were out. An empty cupboard does not become a gas certificate. Whatever pipe remains was only seen.