"reasonable wear and tear" on small items?

BrunoM

Hi all,

Our privately rented flat included a lot of small items on the inventory - e.g. toaster and kettle, mugs and wineglasses, cutlery and crockery etc.
What would be 'reasonable wear and tear' for these items over 2 years tenancy? None of them were expensive/quality items at all but it's one more thing to think about! We've definitely at less than we started with by now.

Thanks

twentypenceoff

when i have rented flats, i have always put the small items belonging to the flat away in a cupboard and used my own where possible, then they cant get damaged, or have any wear and tear taken off the money rto be refunded, some landlords have strange ideas.

Blacksheep1979

wear and tear might be the glasses being foggy etc from going through the dishwasher, but missing is totally different.

BrunoM

Ok, thanks.

Megsmum

I used to work for a firm of solicitors. we had a case going through at the time where a family had rented a large house in a fairly 'sought after' area/road. Their young child crayonned all over the hall wallpaper. The landlord refused to give them their (large) deposit back and said that as the wallpaper was the same throughout the upstairs and downstairs hall he would have to replace the whole lot. They argued that it was a family home and rented as such and the landlord knew they had young children and therefore such wear was 'fair'. They won and the landlord lost !!