Wooden Toilet Seats

minicazzybee

Morning!
I'm hoping someone can help me with the above topic. I rent a flat privately and it came with a wooden toilet seat, and the underneath is blown and swelled up, which moisture and 'other liquids' has got into .
I've asked my letting agency repeatedly for a plastic replacement, which they haven't done, as I don't think it's hygienic. My query is to whether wooden toilet seats are allowed in rental properties for hygiene purposes, especially during the course of a few tenants? I'm sure I read somewhere that plastic toilets seats should be provided in rental properties, but then again I might have been misinformed or dreamed it!
I'm not against paying a tenner for a basic plastic seat, but the tenner is better in my pocket then the letting agents if its something that should be provided anyway.They already do quite well off my every calender month!
Any advice is much appreciated
Thank you. x

Old_Git

I have never known a landlord to replace a toilet seat .
I would buy one from Argos for £5

DVardysShadow

Put your request in writing and keep a copy. This is not to get a replacement, it is to protect you at checkout time. Take a photo of said seat. And get yourself a new one. Bag up the old one and leave it on the premises when you go. Take your own seat with you. Have fight over deposit. Convince the arbitration service that no deduction is due for the toilet seat, because it is life expired [ie wear and tear] and a new one is required, which would be betterment, which cannot be deducted from your deposit.

Petty, I know, but you are paying them well.

domcastro

lol - just go and buy one! hahaha First thing I do when I rent a property. Can't believe you'd wait ages / write letters etc for the sake of 4.95 (cheapest in B&Q)

Spartacus_Mills

minicazzybee wrote: »

Morning!
I'm hoping someone can help me with the above topic. I rent a flat privately and it came with a wooden toilet seat, and the underneath is blown and swelled up, which moisture and 'other liquids' has got into .
I've asked my letting agency repeatedly for a plastic replacement, which they haven't done, as I don't think it's hygienic. My query is to whether wooden toilet seats are allowed in rental properties for hygiene purposes, especially during the course of a few tenants? I'm sure I read somewhere that plastic toilets seats should be provided in rental properties, but then again I might have been misinformed or dreamed it!
I'm not against paying a tenner for a basic plastic seat, but the tenner is better in my pocket then the letting agents if its something that should be provided anyway.They already do quite well off my every calender month!
Any advice is much appreciated
Thank you. x

Stop whining.

It is hardly the end of the world.

jojo_2012_2

I've had my landlord replace my toilet seat when it rusted off at the hinges.

If it were still usable however, and I just didn't like it (different people have different standards). I'd take it off. Bag it up. Buy a new one. Then when I leave give them their lovely wooden toilet seat back

poppysarah

You might find you have to hack off the bolts to replace it. As long as you put it back at the end of the tenancy you'll be fine.
Whilst you don't like it there is almost certainly no law requiring the landlord to replace a toilet seat unless it is unfit for sitting on.

You could however ask nicely pointing out that it's gross - enclose photos of the grossness)

propertyman

Sorry others but I don't think they are whining.

"Let me pay lots of rent to sit in someone else's big jobbies and dribbles...... mmm where do I sign up?" *

If it's that bad two pics, top and bottom, and an email
1: Please replace
2: I will replace, like for like, and take it off next months rent saving owner the contractors cost.

00ec25

propertyman wrote: »

Sorry others but I don't think they are whining.

"Let me pay lots of rent to sit in someone else's big jobbies and dribbles...... mmm where do I sign up?" *

If it's that bad two pics, top and bottom, and an email
1: Please replace
2: I will replace, like for like, and take it off next months rent saving owner the contractors cost.

tut tut propertyman, you know very well that a T cannot send ultimatums regarding witholding rent like that

BitterAndTwisted

I wouldn't be throwing any wooden lav seats away and replacing it with something new and clean before writing my letter. Wooden ones can be very expensive and I wouldn't want £100 deducted from my deposit for some old pee-swollen germ-factory

Strapped

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Put your request in writing and keep a copy. This is not to get a replacement, it is to protect you at checkout time. Take a photo of said seat. And get yourself a new one. Bag up the old one and leave it on the premises when you go. Take your own seat with you. Have fight over deposit. Convince the arbitration service that no deduction is due for the toilet seat, because it is life expired [ie wear and tear] and a new one is required, which would be betterment, which cannot be deducted from your deposit.

Petty, I know, but you are paying them well.

:rotfl: :T