Tulloch PriestCo-founder, Gas Engineer Software · Co-founder of Gas Engineer Software

The Gas Safety Myth You Believe

6 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief video, the speaker recounts frequent phone calls from friends who have failed gas safety inspections because their kitchen lacks an opening window. The myth they have been told is that a kitchen window is a gas safety requirement; the speaker clarifies that the window rule is actually a building‑regulation measure aimed at controlling moisture and heat buildup, not a gas‑safety condition. He explains that the confusion stems from training schools that incorrectly link the two, and notes that his own experience working for GasSafe revealed the true distinction between building regulations and gas‑safety standards.

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I've still got friends that fail gas safety inspections on if there's an opening window in a kitchen. Because if there isn't, it says in the book you can't have a cooker in there. Yeah, so there's little things like that where I still get phone calls saying, oh, there's no opening windows, that means it's failed a gas safety. I said, no, the opening window has nothing to do with gas safety. The opening window is to do with moisture and heat buildup. It's a building regulation. So he said, well, why do they drum it into you at training school then? I said, because they don't know either. I said, "They don't know. It's not anything to do with gas safety. It's to do with building regulations." I only found that out working for GasSafe.