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The valve for everywhere I've lived has been inside the property, so if they can cope with getting through a locked front door I expect they can handle a padlock.
OP - look on the bright side. Now you know what's happening, when your heating goes off next time, you can turn it back on. Then lurk near the meter boxes for a while...
(Or, if you know which one's his, turn that off.)0 -
That's far from universal - many properties have external meter boxes.0
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Cheeky !!!!!!!!. If the boiler noise is a problem he should speak to you then the landlord. He hasn't got the right to turn your gas off and putting it back on without knowing a gas appliance isn't on which could cause a gas explosion which is potentially lethal.
Explain the situation to the landlord and ask if you can put a lock on the meter box.
Because of this I would now be as difficult as possible with regards to the noisy boiler.0 -
Well obviously one of his other tenants is interfering with my gas supply!! And of course it's their responsibility to confront my neighbour if he's causing a nuisance by what he's doing!
So ask me again what it's got to do with the landlord, hmm let's see... It's one of HIS tenants interfering with another tenants gas supply, who do you suggest to contact if not the landlord!!
Clearly the landlord should get involved, if I were a landlord I'd want to know if I had multiple tenants if one of them was causing a nuisance to another of my tenants! And obviously the landlord has the power to do something about it, even just having a word with him might stop it from happening again.
And the boiler is being looked at BUT the fact it vibrates does NOT give my neighbour the right to turn off my gas supply!!!!
Well it would have helped if you had stated that he was also a tenant of your LL.
But even though the LL owns both properties the LL has no responsibility to confront the neighbour about it if the LL doesn't want to get involved.
It is a dispute between neighbours not a problem within the property that you are complaining to the LL about. You probably should have tried to resolve it with your neighbour first before escalating it to your LL. Now you have gave your neighbour more of a reason to be a nuisance to you0 -
I would try the subtle approach first - big stick later and say to neighbour that someone has been switching your gas supply off and has he experienced a similar problem?
Also that if it continues you will be contacting the police as it is a criminal offence /H&S issue.0 -
I'd have thought your neighbour's actions were deemed 'anti social'. Your landlord has a duty to inform their tenant of this and take remedial action if necessary.
Not only that, the gas supply has been interfered with other than for reasons of an emergency.
OP don't start messing with the box yourself, that might be criminal damage if you start drilling holes etc, and putting locks on it to impede the supply. You'd be as bad as them!0 -
When is your next gas safety check due?
I would be inclined to write to the LL to say you have been having intermittent problems with the boiler and gas feeds to the property.
Detail the times that the gas is off and advise the LL of the issue at least with a view to ensuring that these issues are addressed.
At this point I would not be inclined to point the finger directly at the other tenant as I agree with others that it is not the LL's responsibility to deal with "personal and personality "issues between the pair of you as neighbours,however it is the LL's responsibility to provide you with the ability to use gas within your property at your choosing.
You could also mention that on occaision it appears that the lever to control the gas supply is "slipping " to the off position and therefore to eliminate any foul play by others perhaps the LL would either arrange to fit a padlock or combination lock to the meter cupboard or allow you permission to do so.in S 38 T 2 F 50
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Why don't you just turn it on again instead of freezing?(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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need_an_answer wrote: »When is your next gas safety check due?
I would be inclined to write to the LL to say you have been having intermittent problems with the boiler and gas feeds to the property.
Detail the times that the gas is off and advise the LL of the issue at least with a view to ensuring that these issues are addressed.
At this point I would not be inclined to point the finger directly at the other tenant as I agree with others that it is not the LL's responsibility to deal with "personal and personality "issues between the pair of you as neighbours,however it is the LL's responsibility to provide you with the ability to use gas within your property at your choosing.
You could also mention that on occaision it appears that the lever to control the gas supply is "slipping " to the off position and therefore to eliminate any foul play by others perhaps the LL would either arrange to fit a padlock or combination lock to the meter cupboard at allow you permission to do so.
The OP already emailed the LL about the neighbour0 -
seven-day-weekend wrote: »Why don't you just turn it on again instead of freezing?
The op says when I finally clicked, so I assume that as it was on when they got up they didn’t check the meter box. I’m not sure that I would have thought about checking the Gas was on either.0
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