hmm, guy from downstair just came up cause there's a leak in his flat...ROP

Youdontseeme

As someone who has had a leak coming in from the flat above and the owners doing bog all about it, I see where your chappy is coming from.


It’s bloody annoying and there is nothing you can do about, in my case the lady upstairs swore it wasn’t coming from her, until it also started leaking into the flat below me (it was an internal down pipe or something) I spent nearly 6 weeks being kept awake by dripping, emptying buckets etc.


My landlord (who is a plumber!) asked for access to see where it was coming from countless times and she refused as it wasn’t "her" fault.


In the end it was. My neighbour downstairs was rather lucky as hers is a council flat (both mine and upstairs are privately owned) and in the end as part the council forced her to let plumbers in under her lease.

Why be awkward about it? He had every right to call the owner of the property; after all it will be their insurance he has to claim off for any damage.

Ok your landlord coming round might be a inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as your downstairs neighbour having his roof cave in!

*Kat*

Youdontseeme how long did you wait to speak to your neighbours? If it was a "roof caving in" emergency I'm pretty sure he would've come before? No?

I dont know, I just think its pretty rude/cheeky/arrogant/cocklike to call our LL when we had told him we would call tomorrow AND he said that was fine before leaving our flat which he pretty much demanded to come in and see for himself.

Youdontseeme

I spoke to her as soon as I noticed it was happening, then again a week later when a corner of my ceiling was starting to buckle and plaster was falling of the wall asked her to come and take a look and she still refused to believe it was from her flat.

In the end I had to have my whole ceiling replaced.

Yes he should have told you as soon as it started happening, but now he has decided to do something about it, you cant blame him for wanting it fixed as soon as possible. Perhaps he thought it would be better for him to speak to the landlord himself as access would have to be arranged for his flat too.

If i was you I would have offered to call the landlord there and then, to me, it would have been the neighbourly thing to do, no matter what his attitude was.

*Kat*

Eh. I think I was pretty damn "neighbourly" letting him into my flat. And not really, if the landlord then had to call us to arrange a time to come to the flat. It's just rude. I guess we should agree to disagree.

duchy

I suspect he thought you were coming across as utterly not botheredand he probably didn't think you were going to call the LL.

I must admit if I had a leak and my neighbours didn't seemed bothered or interested-I'd just get on with it too. Your attitude that he had a cheek daring to knock on your door probably didn't inspire confidence. Are you usualy a good neighbour or do you keep yourselves to yourself-maybe you gave him the impression you weren't-or maybe he assumes all tenents don't care

*Kat*

Well we let him come into the kitchen and check for himself. Like we had some flood in the kitchen and just didnt bother doing anything about it? I dont understand what he expected us to do on a Sunday night???

DVardysShadow

*Kat* wrote: »

Youdontseeme how long did you wait to speak to your neighbours? If it was a "roof caving in" emergency I'm pretty sure he would've come before? No?

I dont know, I just think its pretty rude/cheeky/arrogant/cocklike to call our LL when we had told him we would call tomorrow AND he said that was fine before leaving our flat which he pretty much demanded to come in and see for himself.

When a tenant tells you "I'll ring the Landlord tomorrow", it can come across as "Go away, I ain't doin nuthin about it, it ain't nuthin to do with me". So I am not the least bit surprised that for a leak into his flat he has gone completely around you to speak to the Landlord.

As someone else suggested, you should have gone into his to see the leak for yourself as the very first step, before taking him to the relevant part of yours above the leak.

Yes, your OH may have to get up at 0430. But someone else's property being ruined in the meanwhile has a higher priority - and I don't think you have done yourselves any favours by not recognising that.

ILW

Think I am with the bloke downstairs on this one.
If water was running down my walls, "leave it till tomorrow" would not impress me.

ovoreo

I'd not sure I'd care how rude I came across if I thought a leak was coming from my neighbours. Leaks can be devastating, even when you have insurance. Quite rightly your neighbour wanted to get it sorted. TBH we've all lived next to 'don't care tenants' I'm not saying you are one, but when you've been burnt you do tend to take matters into your own hands.

poppysarah

Leaks can hide ... Under sink units and shower bases. Would want to look at their flat first though and compare layout