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Boiler not fixed in 1 week
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To be fair, electric heating of almost any kind will be more expensive to run than an efficient gas boiler. I recommend the OP invests in some thermal undies and a couple of fleeces. Thankfully, it's not cold enough right now to get frostbite indoors at the moment. I haven't had any heating on for days now due to reasons of penury and the temp hasn't dropped below 13 degrees Centigrade. Lucky me.0
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clearing_out_my_pockets wrote: »I am an owner occupier who was without heating for a week and a half and has now been with sporadic hot water for two weeks. I have got money back from the insurance company and have found someone else. I still have no hot water. So your landlord is doing a good job.
As far as the cost of using electric heaters goes - is this not offset by the gas saving due to the boiler not working?
No, electric heaters are well known to be expensive. Each heater uses something like the equivalent of 8 lights per hour.
It just seems strange that this is okay for a rented flat whereas for the sale of goods it would not be acceptable? Of course, I understand if it was my own place then I'd have to wait. However, as an analogy, if I had rented some power tools or an electric heater for the weekend, and it broke down, I would be able to get my money back for a failed product. A working boiler remains part of the contract that we pay for every month and it is not working so it should really be covered.0 -
It just seems strange that this is okay for a rented flat whereas for the sale of goods it would not be acceptable? Of course, I understand if it was my own place then I'd have to wait. However, as an analogy, if I had rented some power tools or an electric heater for the weekend, and it broke down, I would be able to get my money back for a failed product. A working boiler remains part of the contract that we pay for every month and it is not working so it should really be covered.
The gas heating and on-tap hot water are only a tiny part of the contract and your rented property is not uninhabitable - you have both heating and hot water. Why not count your lucky stars you have a professional landlord instead of whinging?Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️0 -
The gas heating and on-tap hot water are only a tiny part of the contract and your rented property is not uninhabitable - you have both heating and hot water. Why not count your lucky stars you have a professional landlord instead of whinging?
Value for money...
If you rent a car for a month and say the aircon doesn't work or the right front light doesn't work, do you claim some money back or do you take it to the garage and wait 5 days until they give it back to you and then continue using the car after having not been able to use it for a week all happy that the rental company did everything they could?0 -
Rather than dreaming up analogy after analogy, none of which is comparable, why not accept the advice given?
"What would be reasonable compensation in this case?"
OK. Reasonable? Perhaps a token gesture by the LL would be nice. Say £10-20.
Legal liability? If this went to court I doubt you'd be awarded anything (though you might end up paying the LL's costs).
As has been intimated above, if the LL had failed to do anything, a court would take a different view. But he's done all that could reasonbly be expected.
As for your car analogy, if the car was undrivable, you'd probobly be offered a replacement car. But your house is not 'undrivable'. The aircon? Car Hire firm would say either 'bring it in we'll fix it' or 'sorry parts not here - bring it in next Tuesday'. But it's still not a comparable analogy.0 -
Value for money...
If you rent a car for a month and say the aircon doesn't work or the right front light doesn't work, do you claim some money back or do you take it to the garage and wait 5 days until they give it back to you and then continue using the car after having not been able to use it for a week all happy that the rental company did everything they could?
The gas heating and on-tap hot water are only a tiny part of the contract and your rented property is not uninhabitable - you have both heating and hot water. Why not count your lucky stars you have a professional landlord instead of whinging?Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️0 -
Rather than dreaming up analogy after analogy, none of which is comparable, why not accept the advice given?
"What would be reasonable compensation in this case?"
OK. Reasonable? Perhaps a token gesture by the LL would be nice. Say £10-20.
Legal liability? If this went to court I doubt you'd be awarded anything (though you might end up paying the LL's costs).
As has been intimated above, if the LL had failed to do anything, a court would take a different view. But he's done all that could reasonbly be expected.
As for your car analogy, if the car was undrivable, you'd probobly be offered a replacement car. But your house is not 'undrivable'. The aircon? Car Hire firm would say either 'bring it in we'll fix it' or 'sorry parts not here - bring it in next Tuesday'. But it's still not a comparable analogy.
I will, I'm just discussing hypothetically
- tenancy law doesn't seem in line with the Sale of Goods law.
rent something, it breaks or does not work 100% correctly - you're happy to pay for that are you?But it's still not a comparable analogy:
Does the boiler make up less than 3% of the monthly rent? I'd say it's quite central to the functioning of a property in winter.0 -
I will, I'm just discussing hypothetically - tenancy law doesn't seem in line with the Sale of Goods law.
Does the boiler make up less than 3% of the monthly rent? I'd say it's quite central to the functioning of a property in winter.
Of course it is not comparable, and to even try and comapre 2 completely different laws is ludicrous.
With regards to a bolier being central in winter, as others have said your landlord has provided you with an alternative, it may not be COMPARABLE to a boiler, just like the tenancy and sale of goods laws, but it still does the job, and you still have hot water
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