We offer maintenance, repairs, testing and much more for your catering unit.
You may have a little repair job or a combination of items that need taking care of.
You might be considering changing your food offering or how your unit is set up? Whatever you need us for simply get in touch!
Our team at Custom Gas are highly experienced in all types of repairs and adaptations. Pick up the phone and speak with us, or just drop us an email with your details and what you want to be done.
We’ll talk through your requirements, give you a quote and then you can decide how best to get your vehicle to us. We can also do emergency repairs on site, depending on the nature of what needs doing.
It is a legal requirement for all mobile caterers to have their gas equipment checked and certified annually to ensure that it is safe to operate.
These checks must be carried out by an engineer with the appropriate Gas Safe qualifications.
The types of maintenance and repairs we carry out pretty much include anything you can think of to do with a catering unit! Including –
- Kitchen equipment changes
- Electrical, power, lighting etc.
- LPG and gas
- Accident damage repairs
- Trailer mobility and trailer safety
Small and large caterers alike, can benefit from Gas Safe registered engineers for all their LPG appliance installation, servicing or repair services.
Here at Custom Gas we have many gas safe mobile commercial catering engineer specialists for LPG service, repair and installation. Contact us for mobile catering certificates.
How testing and maintenance is required to keep you on the right side of safe and legal?
You may already be aware you have a legal duty to carry out maintenance work and re-certification on a regular basis. Most reputable events and councils will only let you trade once you have provided them with relevant documentation.
So even though some of these areas are ‘recommended’, without confirmation your unit has been inspected and deemed ‘safe’ within a reasonable period (12 months is most likely), they will not allow you to trade.
It is important to note that a gas safety certificate could be invalid if the checks are carried out by a person who does not have the necessary qualifications.
Assuming you have ambitions to grow your business, employ staff, invest in more vehicles and trailers to generate higher revenues, our best advice to you is to get the testing done regardless of legal duty or recommended schedules.
This is where we keep you totally safe – when you work with us to complete your maintenance and testing, our systems allow us to contact you and get you booked in prior to expiry of your current certificates.
When you work with us to keep you safe, we’ll come up with an arrangement that allows these works to be affordable. Secondly, we’ll liaise with you and complete the works at a time where the disruption either wouldn’t affect your business or when you can minimise disruption as much as possible.
We work with several clients with a fleet to be maintained, where we attend their base and do it all there, saving them money in fuel and transportation costs and their valuable time.
The right certification will often protect you against an employee claiming for an accident at work or one of your customers doing the same.
Exactly what should be tested to best protect your unit, your team and your legal liability?
Some of the tests and work will be:
- Inspection and testing of the fixed wiring in your catering unit – recommended every 12 months by a competent person – to check for problems which may not be immediately apparent.
- Regular testing also allows for the results to be compared year-on-year so any trends of possible failure can be spotted to prevent break downs.
- Portable appliance testing (PAT) – the frequency of tests for these appliances can vary, your fixed appliances must be checked every 12 months and your handheld appliances as frequently as 6 monthly.
PAT testing was introduced to help check the maintenance of electrical appliances mainly in accordance with:
*Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
*The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
*The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
*The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations of 1999
- Inspection, testing and servicing of your LP gas catering appliances and installation pipework (including but not limited to the gas bottle storage facility plus having adequate ventilation installed for both the main working area and the gas bottle compartment).
- As a minimum you are required to prove your gas appliances and pipework are safe. To achieve this, an annual Gas Safety check must be carried out by a Gas Safe engineer who has the relevant qualifications to work on your appliances.
- You will receive a full certificate each year which details that the pipework and appliances are safe for use.
- Inspection of your gas systems also includes checks on what extraction you have in place to keep fresh air entering the area and also checks the levels of CO and CO² in specific areas after specific durations. In the event your current gas certificate / engineer doesn’t test and record the results for these gases, you may as well throw your certificate in the recycling bin.
- You can rest assured we carry out a thorough check of your whole unit externally to make sure bolts are tight, rivets are in place and everything remains secure. This is one of the most thorough checks you’ll find anywhere