boiler in rented house

poppysarah

secla wrote: »

they have contacted the landlord who said "they are going to try and scrape around to get the money to repair) from what i understand its quite a big job.
.

Makes you want to say "well I'll try and scrape the rent together".

I would contact the local council's private tenant sector by CC'ing them in on a letter to landlord and letting agent.

dizziblonde

I don't see what the problem is - he's made the noise everyone would make if their boiler went up the spout, the "oh heck let's see where we can get the money together to do that from" noise, he's said it's going to have to be fixed so he obviously accepts it will be something that's getting done, there are quotes already in the system for him to do it - it's just going to take him a short while to get done and it's not the middle of winter or anything so yes, you're going to be slightly inconvenienced for a few days. Hell, the letting agency sound decent if they're talking about letting him put it through on installments if he needs to as well!

Heck you've got a landlord who lets you redecorate (I've warned hubby that the colour magnolia is banned from the house we're buying after years of renting it), who is going to fix something that's gone wrong - but doesn't want you to fill in his pond in the garden - and you're now huffing and puffing about that - you're being unreasonable and you knew the pond was there when you rented the house.

I'd kill for a LL who had someone out and quotes done within a day of something massive like that going wrong by the way.

tbs624

The LL has very clear obligations on this one, as laid out in the LL&T Act 1985 , s11.

Whilst he dithers over how to pay for it, he should be providing the OP with alternative means of sorting hot water and space heating

pinkshoes wrote: »

You need to give them a reasonable amount of time to fix the boiler. It's not quite boiler weather yet, so at least you won't freeze, and although it's annoying having no hot water, you can use a kettle to boil water and fill the bath.!

s11 repairing obligations don't differentiate between time of year. You would obviously expect a LL to sort heating issues much more quickly when the weather has turned but the LL is quite simply obliged

s11 (c)to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for space heating and heating water."


If a new boiler is needed and if LL stupidly has no contingency fund then LL will have to talk nicely to bank manager

myothercarisaferrari

the previous tenant of my house left her daughter's goldfish:D He has been renamed Martin:p

And you have my sympathy cos my boiler went on Thursday so I am currently having freezing cold showers till probs Monday when my ll is back!