leaving rented - exit checks

musey

If there was no inventory done at the start of the tenancy you have nothing to worry about, the landlord cannot prove pre-tenancy condition. In saying that after 6½ years I would expect to give the property a total overhaul anyway (at my expense) for wear & tear issues. As you have paid no deposit I see no reason to worry about it.

On the subject of the gas safey certificate the landlord is in breach of the law. Contact you local EHO and get their advice.

sportbeth

Many thanks to all, your responses are all very reassuring that I'm not going to get clobbered with a difficult argument if anything gets difficult when I leave!

musey

If they do try to clobber you with charges (some landlord are just born that way) post back for advice.

Good luck with it all!

clutton_2

BobProperty - one death occured in St Andrews Road in Bristol, maybe 1985? - i know its a while back, but i knew these people personally. A semi detached house was being converted into 2 flats. The gas supply was split into 2 and a second meter was installed up stairs. The upstairs flat bathroom contained an old water gasboiler, but as the old gas supply was not capped properly when split into two, when the boiler was first switched on upstairs, there had previously been a build up of gas under the floorboards, and the boiler ignited that build up of gas, and the entire roof lifted up several feet. It then re-settled at a bizarre angle and the young 19 year old student in the bathroom was set ablaze as the boiler blew up. She was "put out" by her fast thinking flat mate, who wrapped her in a duvet. She walked into the ambulance from Frenchay Hospital, but, in spite of many skin grafts, a week later died from severe burns.

The police were investigating some sort of manslaughter charge against British Gas, but they never got enough evidence to proceed.

Oddly enough, a couple of weeks later i was house sitting for other friends, and the BG engineer came to fit a new gas cooker. We got talking about it and he told me that there had not been a gas supply at that house, therefore nothing to do with BG. When i told him that it was a dear friend of mine who had wrapped the student in a duvet, and that she had been traumatised for some while afterwards (she was 8 months pregnant at the time), and that it was definitely a gas explosion, he went very pale and very quiet. "Thats what our bosses told us" he said.

Gas is very dangerous stuff.

BobProperty

Clutton - I'd like to say thanks for that, but that's a horrible story. I hope your then preganant friend is long over the incident.