Can I choose someone to sort out boiler and bill landlord

the-mango

techspec wrote: »

Even if the tenant is not supposed to be there?

My neighbour reported their landlord to HSE - and he promptly evicted them and kept their bond.

They wished they had never reported him now.

But as your on your way anyway - might aswell go for it.

If you mean the bond is the deposit, if it's correctly lodged in a scheme there's no way the landlord can hold back their deposit for reporting them to HSE

carly24

Hi! Just found myself - my post from sunday! Thank you - yes, it was a s21 not s25 :embarasse.

Just an update. I sent a letter so it should have got to the LA on Tuesday and I also phoned and let the letting agent know about the boiler issue and lack of heat and hot water. Someone came round on Wednesday for the gas safety check. Checked the boiler and said it was broken and either needed replacing or needed a part. He said it was up to the landlord to decide what he wanted doing and also noted that I had family living close by when I remarked on needing a hot shower and that I thought he'd have fixed it. (How he knows that and what relevance that is is beyond me).
Anyway, I still have no hot water and no heating. And I have young children in the house all of whom seem to be getting unwell.
I've paid my huge rent on time always.
So, just wanted to know if anyone knew how long I had to wait fr it to be fixed or can I be fobbed off? 've tried googling for answers but seem to come up with lots of different ones. And I'm getting annoyed with myself for not doing anything more.
TIA

Oh, just seen that there were further posts added. I had the notice checked by someone in CAB and they said it wasn't valid - didn't give the correct time. Don't want to be here anyway but just wanted some more time to find a decent place as I don't want to rush into anything rubbish now that I have young children to think of. But thanks for trying to help.

Fire_Fox

Speak to Environmental Health at your local council about having no heating or hot water, as already advised. Having said that it's not exactly the depths of winter nor difficult to boil a kettle/ pans for washing and washing up - tho a PITA - and most of us wash our skin too much anyway. Layered clothing, cheap fleece blanket over legs when on the sofa or on the bed at night, electric underblanket for adults: if your children are ill maybe there is another issue here?

Notmyrealname

carly24 wrote: »

Anyway, I still have no hot water and no heating. And I have young children in the house all of whom seem to be getting unwell.

That has absolutely nothing to do with a lack of heating, especially as temperatures are still in double digits.

I guess you're not old enough to remember a time before central heating was commonplace. Put another jumper on.

carly24

Phoned the council as advised on here (thanks firefox) and for future reference to others in the same situation, if you have young children (old, ill) then the council makes it a priority to send someone out to inspect the property and then gets in touch with the landlord regarding getting something done re, hot water and heating.
Wrapping up in sweaters and boiling a kettle is ok if its your own property but given that I'm paying my rent I expect a certain standard. Being able to have hot water and being able to put the heating on when I feel like are things I should be able to take for granted.