Electrocuted, by landlords washing machine

sooz

OP- you've been given advice as to what to do.

Go & talk to your local council Private housing officer/tenancy relations officer & see what they suggest. If after they have spoken to the LL, you still wish to sue him or the LA, either speak to your home contents insurance, if you have legal cover, or talk to a no win no fee solicitor.

As it is you've already waited 2 months, & stayed in the same property. Now you are just further procrastinating on here.

RabbitMad

Bernie,
you are obviously deperate to sue - let us know how you get on.

Premier_2

bernadette2105 wrote:

...And in this case it is obvious that a house that has been left empty for 14 months cannot be assumed to have safe appliances...

You'll need some sort of qualified person to back up that statement - one I would imagine you won't find easily.

stevetodd

bernadette2105 wrote: »

And in this case it is obvious that a house that has been left empty for 14 months cannot be assumed to have safe appliances. Hence any 'reasonable' person would of undertaken checks.

Maybe he did, maybe the electrician missed something or maybe it was an intermitment fault that was not detectable on the day of testing

bernadette2105

Remedy sought......maybe LL and LA should realise that Tenants have rights and to have faulty electrical equipment in their property is dangerous.

I feel it should be mandatory that you carry out yearly checks on all appliances that you are charging rent on. You can not put ppls lives at risk!

Yes it may cost you more but at least it will be safe.

bernadette2105

stevetodd wrote: »

Maybe he did, maybe the electrician missed something or maybe it was an intermitment fault that was not detectable on the day of testing

No as stated earlier, no eletrical testing was undertaken before tenancy.

RabbitMad

bernadette2105 wrote: »

And in this case it is obvious that a house that has been left empty for 14 months cannot be assumed to have safe appliances. Hence any 'reasonable' person would of undertaken checks.

Really, well I'd have though most people would have thought it was reasonable to assume that hardwired appliances were safe even if they hadn't been used for 14 months.

If anything I'd say the reverse is true i.e. if the house had been occupied and the appliances used lots then there is more need for a safety check.

bernadette2105

Premier wrote: »

You'll need some sort of qualified person to back up that statement - one I would imagine you won't find easily.

Any 'Reasonable' person would say this.
You cant just rent out equipment without taking steps to check that equipment is safe.

You but a house that has been empty for a while and you rent out the equipment that you have no personal knowledge of its history any person with common sense would have it checked to protect themselves from issues like this

RabbitMad

bernadette2105 wrote: »

Remedy sought......maybe LL and LA should realise that Tenants have rights and to have faulty electrical equipment in their property is dangerous.

What remedy have you sought? £10 zillion indamages, A writen appology, a box of chocolates for you bruise?

bernadette2105 wrote: »

I feel it should be mandatory that you carry out yearly checks on all appliances that you are charging rent on. You can not put ppls lives at risk!

Yes it may cost you more but at least it will be safe.

I don't think there are many LL's on here that would disagree, it sounds like many already do.

Premier_2

bernadette2105 wrote: »

Remedy sought......maybe LL and LA should realise that Tenants have rights and to have faulty electrical equipment in their property is dangerous.

You don't need a court to do that - just write to them both expressing your feelings

bernadette2105 wrote:

I feel it should be mandatory that you carry out yearly checks on all appliances that you are charging rent on. You can not put ppls lives at risk!

Again you don't need a court - that's a political statement. Write to your MP and express your feelings. I'm sure one of the other poster will help you with their address ... that's if it isn't already in ome of that usual ranting style posts in this thread.

bernadette2105 wrote:

Yes it may cost you more but at least it will be safe.

No more safe than it was when it was inspected earlier probably, especially if the same inspection company is used - but if you want to fork out for extra inspections you could always have one carried out yourself rather than wishing to burden every tenant with the annual expense of such inspection.