New Tenancy - Room Stinks

superfran_uk

Quiet enjoyment refers mainly to the fact that you can do what you like in your own home without the LL interfering - not sure it covers this.

goldengirl28

Have you treid lifting the carpet and mopping first with flash bleach and then with stardrops

Also check to see if there is a dead body under the floor boards .only kidding!

It could be they laid poison for mice or somethng and they are under the floor boards nicely decaying away, not a pleasant thing to find, but you would know the source of the issue..........can you imagine that conversation with the agent/LL........

My cousin bought a lovely cottage a good few years ago and when modernising the found bones in the walls, they called in enviromental health and testing showed they where animal and had been there since the black death and the seized the building................long story but it took them 4 mths before they where allowed back in !!!!! just thought it might make you giggle.

mrs_deadline

To be honest the carpet or whatever is making it smell probably IS a health hazard! Personally I'd have rolled it back long ago to establish what died in the room LOL

Have you taken a look yet Lapchien?

If you walk out without resolving this, wouldn't you owe them a lot more in unpaid rent than you could counterclaim for regarding the carpet issue?

adg1

Lapchien wrote: »

The carpet still stinks

Then take them out. Give the landlord the address for your local carpetright and tell him to spend £40 on a new carpet for the room. Doesn't have to be spangly, just new and not smelly.

There has been a lot of people say to pull back the carpet (not difficult) to see the state of the floorboards. Have you had a delve underneath yet?

Lapchien wrote: »

I am considering just leaving, if I walk out he will have no income from me, he may threaten to sue and I woudl threaten to counter claim.

I can't really see that you have a legal case agianst the LL. Bear in mind if you walk out of your tenancy then you ARE liable for the rent for the remaining months and from the 'pay half the carpet costs' quote from your LL I'd be willing to bet he'd persue you for it all. Witholding rent will also leave you in breach of contract too.