LL wants us to pay for radiator repair

tyllwyd

SAHD_Jim wrote: »

Ayelet, does anyone live with you who may have "forgotten" to tell you that they had pulled the radiator off the wall previously???

When I was about 8 I fell against a rad and pulled it off the wall and I thought I'd get away with it by simply balancing it back in the holes.

Strangely,my dad wasn't buying it when he draped a towel over it and it fell off the wall.

Something like that sounds a much more plausible explanation! Dropping a CD would surely be a downwards force - it wouldn't pull the radiator sideways to pull brackets out of the wall.

I would believe you when you say that all you did was drop a CD because why would you make up such a stupid excuse! It must surely have been damaged previously to have made it so delicately balanced.

bris

ruggedtoast wrote: »

What cd was it?

Heavy metal

redped

I know the OP's version seems unlikely at first, but personal experience tells me that it definitely can happen. When I was getting my wife's house ready to let out just after we got married, one of the jobs on my list was to fix a wobbly radiator. Turns out whoever had fitted years previously had used bog standard rawlplugs to fix the brackets to a stud wall. As the holes were slightly wider than the rawlplugs, in effect the brackets were really just sitting against the wall, rather than being securely fastened to it. So a gentle pull on the radiator would have been enough to pull it away from the wall.

dcems

Having worked directly with EH for 11 years with regard to various housing issues as per my job, they certainly do and will visit regarding repair issues. It may not be the biggest repair issue on the planet,but landlords have a responsibilty to do repairs. Of course your landlord is saying its your fault-he doesnt want to put his hand in his pocket and pay out for anything.

The radiator must have been wobbling around previous to this incident surely?

taxsaver

redped wrote: »

I know the OP's version seems unlikely at first, but personal experience tells me that it definitely can happen. When I was getting my wife's house ready to let out just after we got married, one of the jobs on my list was to fix a wobbly radiator. Turns out whoever had fitted years previously had used bog standard rawlplugs to fix the brackets to a stud wall. As the holes were slightly wider than the rawlplugs, in effect the brackets were really just sitting against the wall, rather than being securely fastened to it. So a gentle pull on the radiator would have been enough to pull it away from the wall.

That's the point though isn't it..... it needed a 'pull' (albeit gentle) and certainly not something as inconsequential as a cd falling onto it! :rotfl:

Ayelet

bris wrote: »

Heavy metal

It actually was a heavy metal CD as I'm quite a heavy metal fan.

Anyway, the independent engineer has just been here and he said that the radiator has been fixed incorrectly with inadequately sized 6mm raw plug fixings. He also found due to the wall quality is brittle an easily erodes, further measures would have to be taken to properly fix the radiator. His main conclusion is that, as said here before, the radiator was about to come down anyway and anything could have make it fall down, but the fault does lie in the nature of the fixing.

In other words: the LL has to pay for the radiator fixing and we have been cleared of the blame! :j

Thanks for everyone here giving useful advice. For the ones who said it was not true: even if something sounds unlikely, don't just jump to conclusions something was made up. Not many people would just make these kind of stories up and post them on here.

k3lvc

Ayelet wrote: »

Not many people would just make these kind of stories up and post them on here.

Glad you had a good outcome but don't kid yourself - the current KLM/Racism thread is a prime example of the **** that gets posted