Fridge in rented property

Owain_Moneysaver

klee1505 wrote: »

maybe because if we got meat in the morning left it out all day long ( in a hot kitchen on a hot day) it would not be very fresh by the evening. i asked for advise not for criticism.

Back in 'the olden days' people had cool larders with slate shelves, and meat-safes, and butchers' boys delivered on bicycles, so meat would not be left in a hot kitchen.

KimYeovil

You have had to eat out? What about the food in your fridge? And your freezer? You really are a very strange person.

Food is not going to be ruined between Sunday morning and Tuesday. You have had two whole days to mitigate. If the meat is decent quality in the first place there will be nothing wrong with it.

You have been given lots of advice. If you know better how you should be advised then why ask in the first place?

Why do you think the landlord should compensate you for the accident? It is nothing to do with them if you are too sullen and slow and sociopathic to function normally. You asked at the end of your op if you should fight or if you did not have a case. You were given the correct reply (you should not fight, you do not have a case, you have chosen not to invoke your contents insurance). Why are you complaining?

poppysarah

Write and ask for the landlord to claim on his insurance.

It's not your fridge to claim on and why should you use your insurance?

The shops have been open each day so leaving it until Tuesday is pretty dull.

A letting agent should be able to deal with this - fobbing you off is just bad. What do they do for their money anyway?

klee1505

poppysarah wrote: »

Write and ask for the landlord to claim on his insurance.

It's not your fridge to claim on and why should you use your insurance?

The shops have been open each day so leaving it until Tuesday is pretty dull.

A letting agent should be able to deal with this - fobbing you off is just bad. What do they do for their money anyway?

thanks alot for this. this is exactly how i feel like i havebeen fobbed off. the letting agents where the 1s in the 1st place to tell us to eat out and keep all our receipts all they would refund but now there saying that they wont

Many thanks for your helpfull reply

klee1505

KimYeovil wrote: »

You have had to eat out? What about the food in your fridge? And your freezer? You really are a very strange person.

Food is not going to be ruined between Sunday morning and Tuesday. You have had two whole days to mitigate. If the meat is decent quality in the first place there will be nothing wrong with it.

You have been given lots of advice. If you know better how you should be advised then why ask in the first place?

Why do you think the landlord should compensate you for the accident? It is nothing to do with them if you are too sullen and slow and sociopathic to function normally. You asked at the end of your op if you should fight or if you did not have a case. You were given the correct reply (you should not fight, you do not have a case, you have chosen not to invoke your contents insurance). Why are you complaining?

maybe you should read my full post which states it is a fridge/ freezer???? how about you dont comment if you have nothing positive to say

Cissi

So you want your LL to compensate you for the food in your fridge and freezer that will end up spoilt, yet you're eating out rather than making the most of all this supposed food while it's still good? Meat defrosted on Sunday morning would still have been perfectly fine to eat in the evening, and on Monday too given the rather cool temperatures we've had.

As has been said above, something doesn't add up here.

klee1505

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Back in 'the olden days' people had cool larders with slate shelves, and meat-safes, and butchers' boys delivered on bicycles, so meat would not be left in a hot kitchen.

And am i in the "olden days"? im pretty sure that my landlord would not supply one of them for me as it is a white goods house i am renting

poppysarah

Most stuff in a fridge will be ok for a while if the door isn't opened. A freezer stays ok for maybe 12 hours if not opened.

The only way of dealing with it is to cook everything in the freezer or throw it away. But that should have been on Monday at the latest.

Cissi

Re-reading the OPs various posts I've realised it isn't the food that was in the fridge/freezer that they want compensation for, but rather the fact that the food that they hadn't bought yet wouldn't last, so therefore they "had" to eat out. Hmm, I never heard of any insurance that would pay out for anything like that. All you could claim for is any actual food that was ruined - not hypothetical goods you hadn't even bought yet.

Either you had plenty of food in the fridge/freezer - which would then have been perfectly fine to eat for a few days - or you didn't, in which case I don't see how anyone has any liability here. The LL is obliged to provide a working appliance within a reasonable amount of time, which it seems like he's doing.

kmmr

klee1505 wrote: »

thanks alot for this. this is exactly how i feel like i havebeen fobbed off. the letting agents where the 1s in the 1st place to tell us to eat out and keep all our receipts all they would refund but now there saying that they wont

Many thanks for your helpfull reply

You haven't been fobbed off. The LA responded to your call, told you it wasn't considered an emergency, then spoke to your LL on the next business day, and have informed you that a new fridge/freezer is coming.

If it was your fridge/freezer, would you honestly instantly go and buy another one for delivery that day? Not checking prices, or looking to see if it is repairable?