Latest Landlords Burden "legionella Test"

[ProDave]

I was speaking with my letting agent today.

The latest thing about to be unleashed on Landlords is a "legionella test" which will have to be done every 2 years.

Now, to my mind that just means checking that the hot water tank is achieving a temperature of 65 degrees or more? So that should be simple.

So why does the bumph from the Scottish Government suggest this is likely to cost £200

Where can I sign up for a 5 day course to measure the temperature of water in a tank and charge £200 a go for it please?

 

[NozSpark]

They probably have to take swabs..... and maybe include the extractor ducts??

 

[Andy™]

whats the chances that council housing will be excluded?

 

[Essex1]

The ones NR do are sent off to labs for testing.

 

[Tony S]

[SIZE=medium]There’s a bit more to it than water temperature. The biological testing kits aren’t cheap. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]The only time I’ve used them was on cooling towers. Weekly tests and the results logged, any rise in the biological burden and the system has to be sterilised. Not a cheap job when the time needed and inconvenience is taken in to account.[/SIZE]

 

[Andy™]

factory at boldon had a big problem a few month ago, few people ill, turned out to be something to do with their cooling towers

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/health/legionnaires-outbreak-confirmed-at-boldon-factory-1-7275215

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/health/boldon-factory-at-centre-of-legionnaire-s-outbreak-ordered-to-close-water-cooling-towers-1-7295525

 

[Tony S]

[SIZE=medium]Cooling towers are evil things if you have to go in one. God knows what that slime on the matrix has lurking in it. Biocides are added constantly by a dosing system.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]Emptying our cooling system down was a mammoth task. Ever tried to loose an olympic swimming pool of water that can’t go down the drains?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]One year the disinfecting took so long we were desperate for water ready for plant start up. The company had built the canal and feeder reservoirs in 1796, we still had to pay for the water.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=medium]I started all the canal pumps to fill the header tank, pity I forgot to open the sluice gates on the reservoirs. I wasn’t popular with the angling club.[/SIZE]

 

[Marvo]

We regularly test HVAC systems including cooling towers. We encounter a high failure rate (approx 15%) mostly due to incorrect set up or failure of the algecide dosing pumps and the lab testing of the samples is expensive.