Landord replacing carpets when tennants don't want to... advice please

Zoology_Dragon

clutton wrote: »

if you have not got a lot of time left on your agreement and you risk her evicting you - it may be the lesser of two evils to allow the carpet to be put down at a time to suit you - Half term ?

Sadly students don't get a break at half term, especially not PhD students. They're generally entitled to 8 weeks holiday a year but most don't take that much.

clutton_2

""8 weeks holiday a year " ??????? - and

""Sadly students don't get a break at half term""

you dont know the half of life yet matey .......

Bufger

LOL! Anyone else get 3 weeks holiday a year? I even have to take mine in peak time. Missus is a teacher :-(

Good luck with this OP but it doesnt seem like a major issue. Just let her get on with it and you probably wont see her for a while.

JEWISHPRINCESS

Just let her get on with it. Humour her and hope she forgets the inventory and deposit thing. Goodluck/

kunekune

No, Clutton, it's as OP says. PhD students work extremely hard, and if they don't finish on time, they are finished. Taking holiday for more than the occasional one-day weekend would be completely frowned on.

As an academic, I have a similar situation with holidays. I'm entitled to 7. But I can't take it during teaching weeks (which covers mid-September to just-before Christmas, mid-Jan to mid-May, assessment periods (that cuts out the first half of January, from mid-May to the end of July and from the middle of August to the middle of September). I don't have time off for school half-terms as teaching continues and our Easter break only overlaps with school for a week. There are deadlines for preparation before Christmas. And I work most weekends during term-time and exam-marking time as deadlines are ridiculous. If we don't research, we don't get promoted, so that doesn't help. Most academics at my institution take 2-3 weeks off a year plus SOME bank holidays. But we can't store up untaken leave either. We're not living in some cloud cuckoo ivory tower. It's a stressful, rushed and unhealthy job.

not_loaded

fimonkey wrote: »

…re-mortgaging in October and wants to use the extra money to give us a new kitchen, bathroom and replace the carpets.

fimonkey wrote: »

…We tried to put this across to her tonight but she is adamant its going ahead.

fimonkey wrote: »

…(seeing as she's said she's getting beige carpets)…

Putting all the clues together, I suspect she’s going to sell it.

No LL in their right mind would do all this for tenants like you.

No offence intended, as I'm sure you're bigger than me.

Oldernotwiser

It takes a couple of hours to fit a carpet, plus the same to move furniture out and back. As you obviously have plenty of time for sports it's hard to argue that these few hours are going to affect your studies!

barnaby-bear

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

It takes a couple of hours to fit a carpet, plus the same to move furniture out and back. As you obviously have plenty of time for sports it's hard to argue that these few hours are going to affect your studies!

As a PhD student we chose a cheap house with a grim carpet and tatty decor and when LL offered to replace it told him no thanks (he seemed quite pleased) - the worn worthless carpet in a large HMO meant we could bring bikes in the house, have parties with no fear of retribution a brand new beige carpet was not wanted and not as seen - we went for the tatty house knowing it suited our lifestyles..... and it isn't a few hours - those piles of paper you have everywhere when doing a PhD are carefully ordered - if one goes missing/misplaced it can be hours hunting it down / redoing results - it's disruption - disruption for no gain.....

clutton_2

"" It's a stressful, rushed and unhealthy job. ""

so why not do something different .......

barnaby-bear

clutton wrote: »

"" It's a stressful, rushed and unhealthy job. ""

so why not do something different .......

It's often the means to a better job.... and it's a personal choice for someone to take on the bad points of any job for the long term benefits/self-fulfilment/to pay the bills (we can't all be LLs :rolleyes:)... often people find themselves trapped in jobs they can't afford to leave with qualifications that make changing field difficult. But that's irrelevent having additional stress for a forced redecoration that a renter won't get long term benefit from at a time of an occupier's convenience isn't a choice it's a cheek....