is this legal? - urgent advice wanted on plumbing when renting, please

Mips

carolt wrote: »

Yikes. Poor you. I'm hoping we can avoid getting to that stage.

I got out the tenancy agreement after a month and received my full deposit back

dfh

Besides the OP knows that the landlord needs to provide a gas certificate but instead of chasing the landlord moans on this board.Action and not words are needed !

dfh

Dippychick wrote: »

I got out the tenancy agreement after a month and received my full deposit back

Good for you ! You chose to act when faced with a problem !

carolt

clutton wrote: »

your LL is not psychic - and if this HAS got so much worse, you have a duty as a responsible tenant to inform him at the earliest opportunity - even if it is Sunday

Just to add to the bit you've added - it hasn't got 'so much worse'. It was that bad when we got back from holiday, it's just been gradually growing. I have already explained it to the landlord - they were more than welcome to come and view it and still are. I will phone them again; I hope to hear from him soon, as the plumber said he would phone him about the details of what needed doing and when, and I don't have the plumber's number. I'm hardly going to wait in all week, on the off-chance he comes round. I started this thread while the plumber was actually here because I wanted to check it was legit for him to do the work, before I started chasing my landlord about getting him back asap - if it turned it it wasn't OK, that would be a bit pointless.

I've only had that info from a reliable source this morning.

Mips

dfh wrote: »

Good for you ! You chose to act when faced with a problem !

I had to, the place was unfit for the kids and I gave him from 2nd July until 5th August to get and sort the things out... he didn't... ceiling caved in, I left that night

carolt

pete80 wrote: »

Lol, you posted about your leak, your athsma bla bla bla, no fascination for us - just a bit better than watching the cricket, oh maybe not....:rotfl:

What on earth are you reading it for then!

Off to the cricket with you!

If it wasn't my leak I'd find it duller than very, very dull, believe me.

dfh

Dippychick wrote: »

I had to, the place was unfit for the kids and I gave him from 2nd July until 5th August to get and sort the things out... he didn't... ceiling caved in, I left that night

That's more than a month and is certainly not acceptable.I am glad all of you are all right.Given your experiences,I would say the landlord got off lightly with just having to refund your deposit.

dfh

pete80 wrote: »

Lol, you posted about your leak, your athsma bla bla bla, no fascination for us - just a bit better than watching the cricket, oh maybe not....:rotfl:

The OP's "leak" she is fascinated with. Hilarious !

carolt

dfh wrote: »

Besides the OP knows that the landlord needs to provide a gas certificate but instead of chasing the landlord moans on this board.Action and not words are needed !

It's Sunday!

Surely you have something better to do?

I'll pop back later and see if there've been any more helpful, constructive comments re leaks. In the meantime, feel free to post as much as you want here. You obviously like this thread, for reasons best known to yourself. Please discuss the state of my ceiling/landlord-tenant relations etc etc for as long as excites you.

Yawn.

dfh

It is funny when people post asking some quesions and when they are told what they do not wan't to hear, they go off in a huff ordering people not to post unless it is " constructive" meaning-it tells me what I want to hear.