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forgive me here - but all this was utterly unnecessary - OP said that 2 minutes after she signed her tenancy agreement the gas guy phoned her to make an appointment to come and do the CORGI cert - if she had bothered to respond none of this would have happened - he would have come, shown her how to use the boiler and hey presto .........
"""I'm to phone the guy to come out and do the checks actually,"" - so why didn't you do that a month ago ?0 -
forgive me here - but all this was utterly unnecessary - OP said that 2 minutes after she signed her tenancy agreement the gas guy phoned her to make an appointment to come and do the CORGI cert - if she had bothered to respond none of this would have happened - he would have come, shown her how to use the boiler and hey presto .........
"""I'm to phone the guy to come out and do the checks actually,"" - so why didn't you do that a month ago ?
Forgive me, but no you are not forgiven! She moved in on Friday and at 4.50pm on Friday just after she had received the keys from the LA she got a phone call from the gas guy (which I am sure she stated in one of her posts), who said he was outside her new flat. She told him she had just received the keys (didn't even kow a safety check had been arranged or that the gas guy had her mobile number) so hadn't even moved in yet. So how could she phoned him a month ago when she wasn't even the tenant a month ago? :rolleyes: She DID phone the gas guy, but he can't do checks at weekends, and since she has to go to work to make the pennies to pay for the rent for the flat, she couldn't arrange with him when to get it looked at so the LA was meant to be arranging for the gas guy to get keys from them so he could gain entry to check the appliances while she was at work. She very stupidly didn't post all that info on here because quite frankly that has nothing to do with the her heating not working which is what she was posting about in the first place.
Getting the safety check wasn't the point of her post, the point was getting the heating working while she waits on the LA arranging for the safety certificate check to be done.
So no it was not utterly unnecessary in the slightest. She wants her heating working and thankfully at least EliteHeat seems to have grasped that fact. :j0 -
Well my mum explained. So no, I don't think it is unnecessary at all. And now I can't get my heating off
I wish someone would just show me how to work this thing! :rotfl: Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.0 -
forgive me here - but all this was utterly unnecessary - OP said that 2 minutes after she signed her tenancy agreement the gas guy phoned her to make an appointment to come and do the CORGI cert - if she had bothered to respond none of this would have happened - he would have come, shown her how to use the boiler and hey presto .........
"""I'm to phone the guy to come out and do the checks actually,"" - so why didn't you do that a month ago ?
And where on earth did you get 'a month ago' from? I moved in 4 days ago.Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.0 -
tenants have responsibilities as well as landlords - if they cannot make time themselves, or cannot find someone else to let a workman in - they have no reason to start grumbling - landlords and letting agents are not miracle workers
it has everything to do with her heating - the gas engineers safety certification tells everyone that the boiler is working safely and that the heating and hot water work...... if she had let him in when he called - none of this would have happened
OP says "" I'm just !!!!ed off! It's been one thing after the other for a month0 -
tenants have responsibilities as well as landlords - if they cannot make time themselves, or cannot find someone else to let a workman in - they have no reason to start grumbling - landlords and letting agents are not miracle workers
it has everything to do with her heating - the gas engineers safety certification tells everyone that the boiler is working safely and that the heating and hot water work...... if she had let him in when he called - none of this would have happened
OP says "" I'm just !!!!ed off! It's been one thing after the other for a month
The gas safety certificate should have been done BEFORE I even moved in. So it very much IS the responsibility of the LL/LA as various people on here have mentioned. I didn't not let them in, I hadn't even been in myself! I was at the other side of town, heading to my old flat to get ready for my removal van to come and move me into the new flat. What do you expect me to do in that situation exactly?
And if you read the very first sentence of my post you might find this...I moved into my new flat on FridayJust because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.0 -
tenants have responsibilities as well as landlords - if they cannot make time themselves, or cannot find someone else to let a workman in - they have no reason to start grumbling - landlords and letting agents are not miracle workers
it has everything to do with her heating - the gas engineers safety certification tells everyone that the boiler is working safely and that the heating and hot water work...... if she had let him in when he called - none of this would have happened
OP says "" I'm just !!!!ed off! It's been one thing after the other for a month
Which is why the LA said they would arrange for the gas guy to pick up the keys from them so he could gain access.
She had just got handed the keys 5 mins before the gas guy phoned her, she didn't know there had been an appoitment arranged as stated in my previous post!! Sje hadn't even moved in!! She picked up her keys, then back to her old place to wait on removal men to then move her into her new place.
She moved in on Friday, as stated in her very first post. Do you have a problem reading the facts previously posted?0 -
I can't get the heating off
I don't understand this at all... Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.0 -
Drea take some photos of the front of the boiler and all of the external controls you can find and post them.
P.S. in the meantime, switch it to hot water only, this will at least turn off the heating0
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