Advice needed about tennants rights

Meatballs

If you spoke nicely to Sky they could pause your contract for 3 months, that'd be the easiest option. Keep ringing up and speak to someone higher up as this would still be easier than other options and keep relationship with LL. Tell them to keep their comments about just watching terrestrial. You are paying and are unable to get service through no fault of your own, but are happy to continue service.

Secondly if a neighbour blocked my sky signal doing work to their property and I was paying £33 a month for I'd expect them to offer to pay for it. (I'd probably split the cost in the interest of being neighbourly.) Obviously I'd try to get scaffolders to stop blocking or split costs of moving dish if it were cheaper before taking the money.

The landlord is doing work to their property, and causing you to be £99 out of pocket? At the end of the day they are responsible, not sky as they are providing the service perfectly fine. I would expect a decent landlord to offer to cover those costs, you already have inconvenience of scaffolding on the property you are paying for.

lulupop123

Clutton- As Meatballs stated they are doing work to their property & causing us to be £99 out of pocket. No i am not a homeowner but if i was & my neighbours had put up scaffolding i would not take it in my stride- i'm sure no one would, would you?

Another neighbour has kindly let us use her dish so i have contacted a local aerial firm to come & swap the wires around, but we are still £33 out of pocket so i will definatley take previous posters advice & write to my LL requesting as a good will to take that £33 from my rent.

silvercar

Would you rather a landlord didn't maintain the property?

lulupop123

No- I just want him to realise that we are paying for a service that we can't get due to his scaffolding- An appology with a small deduction of rent or arranging for someone to come & move the dish would be nice.

All we got was arsey scaffolders in our garden who we weren't told were coming, no use of our garden & no sky reception....i don't think we are asking for much.

I am not asking for anyones opinions of whether i should be grateful the house roof is getting fixed, i was asking for advice how to go about rectifying the situation- The few people who were willing to offer advice Thank you The rest of you please don't bother commenting if you have nothing of value to add.

poppysarah

Get the dish put on the scaffolding ...
The council did it when they did the council houses up here ...

silvercar

You have to accept that properties need maintaining and that maintenance causes inconvenience.

tbs624

The OP clearly has 4 issues here:

1. no advance written notice (or any other kind) of builders' arrival/construction of scaffolding
2. temporary loss of use of courtyard area due to scaffolding
3. damage to OP/Ts plant pots etc
4. loss of beloved Sky service for a temporary period

IMO LL should:

(a) have notified T
(b) give T dates by which work will be done/scaff. will be removed and
(c) make a small gesture of recompense to the T for the temporary inconvenience incurred.
(d) pay for replacement plant pots/shrubs damaged during the work or ensure that roofers /scaffolders do

mlz1413

lulupop whilst I do understand your frustrations I think maybe tackle this from a different angle. Had the LL given you notice the roof was to repaired then you may not have taken out the sky subscription at this point, therefore ask the LL to allow you to reduce rent by (upto) £33 per month whilst scaffolding is up.

You do say that your not planning on moving out as the rent is cheap, but a reflection of this is the LL isn't hands on with problems. In many respects you are luckly as some T's pay normal rents and the LL's are still not quick to tackle problems. Guess you need to weigh up the pro's & con's of where you are for the long term future.

ILW

lulupop123 wrote: »

I am not asking for anyones opinions of whether i should be grateful the house roof is getting fixed, i was asking for advice how to go about rectifying the situation- The few people who were willing to offer advice Thank you The rest of you please don't bother commenting if you have nothing of value to add.

You could ask the builders to put yours toys back in your pram whilst they are there.

Meatballs

silvercar wrote: »

Would you rather a landlord didn't maintain the property?

The tenants are paying the ll a substantial amount every month for a service. One part of that service is to keep the house in a habitable state.

It is not an inconvenience, it's a financial loss.