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Risk of deadly gas blasts rising as cash-strapped UK homeowners skip checks

HSE finds almost one in three not booking annual gas safety checks due to cost of living crisis

  • ‘The house blew up in seconds’: how a gas blast affected one Welsh family

The risk of catastrophic gas blasts is being heightened by cash-strapped homeowners skipping checks for potentially deadly faults, safety experts have warned.

Cookers, fires and boilers left unchecked can cause leaks, which “lead to fires and explosions that cost lives and shatter neighbourhoods,” said Bob Kerr, the gas services director at Gas Safe Register.

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