| Comment | the problem is access - if you have a difficult tenant who won't arrange to be available to let a gas inspector in, then the landlord is still liable in the event something happens unless they can demonstrate all reasonable steps were taken
but yes, you're agreeing with my point - the incentive for a landlord to replace gas with electric boiler is very small, it's only a minor inconvenience. However, there is absolutely zero incentive for them to keep the cheaper gas boiler, despite the huge cost implications for the tenant. Hence you end up in the situation where a landlord makes an economically terrible decision that a private homeowner would never do.
It doesn't affect the marketability because the majority of people aren't aware how much more expensive resistive electrical heating is to run, and they can sell it as a 'modern' replacement |
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