Window height too tall to rent?

Errata

view wrote: »

Yes, I know it sounds Bonkers with a capital B eh!

I am going to ask the council tomorrow - especially the 'two feet on the ground' situation and will revert. I think, from what I can gather, you can't be on a ladder or some sort of object with the window open whilst cleaning...

It will be worth pointing out to them that they have housing stock which doesn't comply with a two feet on the ground rule (if it exists, which it doesn't)

casperlarue

Have a look here.... Building Regulations Part K, Section 3 Guards and barriers, diagram 11 showing horizontal bar across window. Also the glass should be toughened if its within 800mm of the floor.

princeofpounds

Those links are related to building regulations. Building regs are necessary for new construction but have nothing to do with pre-existing buildings, let alone lettings.

There is no rule re windows and lettings, it's a load of nonsense.

Mrs_pbradley936

I think it depends on who you are renting to. When my mother-in-law died we decided to let her flat and because it was quite a distance from us approached the local council because we had heard that they gave you a 3 year contract. They do indeed but have so many "petty" rules and regulations that we declined in the end and gave it to a local agent.

cbrown372

I seem to remember a friend who rented a property out in St Andrew's telling me that any windows above ground floor level had to have bars at the windows if they were rented to students. Being a university town the majority of people renting were students.

carefullycautious

Have they never heard of telescopic window cleaners

Amazon have them

G_M

cbrown372 wrote: »

I seem to remember a friend who rented a property out in St Andrew's telling me that any windows above ground floor level had to have bars at the windows if they were rented to students. Being a university town the majority of people renting were students.

That'll be Scotland then?

Scottish property law is completely different Eng/Wales and I'm afraid we tend to make an (unjustified) assumption that issues are Eng/Wales-based unless advised otherwise.

Sorry!

(artful knows north of the border stuff, and may be along soon...)

neverdespairgirl

Errata wrote: »

That's mad! What happens to all the Victorian/Georgian/Edwardian houses which don't comply with that. Or the houses with french windows or patio doors.

I'm not sure I've lived in a place in my entire life where I could clean all the windows standing on the floor with both feet!

agrinnall

G_M wrote: »

That'll be Scotland then?

Scottish property law is completely different Eng/Wales and I'm afraid we tend to make an (unjustified) assumption that issues are Eng/Wales-based unless advised otherwise.

Sorry!

(artful knows north of the border stuff, and may be along soon...)

I don't know what the OP's question was as it's been deleted for some reason. But the law in Scotland was changed, certainly for hotels and I suspect for places such as accommodation specifically for students, after a guest fell out of a hotel room in Edinburgh through a fully opening window and died. I can't be sure but it might have been this story. To the best of my knowledge all hotel room windows in Scotland now have restricted opening.