Council housing, what right do council housing officer have to inspect your house?

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looby75 wrote: »

lighting up the chalice what a brilliant idea!!!! There are still a few unfinished issued from the refurbishment that I have reported a few times and they have never come to fix, I never thought of using his visit in that way, you are a genius. I WISH they could come and skim all the walls, one of the biggest problems with decoration is every single wall in the house now needs stripping and re-papering because it was the dreaded wood chip and they stripped the parts they need to channel out to rewire but the rest is still there and you know how horrible whole rooms of woodchip are to remove. It's the main reason I put up with having it for so long, with a lick of paint it was fresh enough to live with now thats not an option

Do not let them touch you walls inside your home as their specialty is to mess up everything twice as bad as they found it. This guy has no right to come into your home. How are the common areas of your building kept and do you pay for maintenance of the common areas. If you pay maintenance for the common areas and are not kept clean to a reasonable standard then complain like hell about that in writing and do not let up as they are a lazy lot of b******s.

BTW they will not do any internal work inside your home, if you are not disabled and claiming benefits.

Also you should be aware of this also.

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tenancies/council-warns-tenants-of-bogus-housing-letters/6526630.article

Spark

In my tenancy agreement, it is written " You must keep the interior of your home neat, tidy and clean".
But my idea of tidiness might be different from someone else. Untidy looking (as clutter) does not mean unclean. Anyhow, I don't see how it's any of their business, as long as you give back the property in good order when you leave.
That guy was probably a little hitler in the making.
I am sure most tenants give back their properties in a hell of a lot better order than when they moved in.
The only time they can force your door, even if you are not there, is if there is a health or safety issue, or an urgent repair like a water leak seeping through to the flat below and you are not there to see to it or to open the door, or something like that.
Also, they can ask immediate access to check who is living in the property, to reduce tenancy fraud and subletting. (That's in my tenancy agreement).
I was checked twice, I was just asked to show my passport, but they didn't ask to see the flat.
Anyhow, I usually am at work during the day, so they would better send me a letter to tell me they want to come in, or they won't be able to. Of course I comply with any repairs, gas checks etc...that needs to be done. Any other time, I answer the door only when I know someone is coming.
As I understand, they can change the tenancy agreement any time, (they changed mine twice so far), so what's the point of having signed the first one when you know they will change it again and you won't have any choice but to accept the new terms or quit your tenancy? I wasn't asked to sign for the new tenancy agreements neither.
Anyhow, they usually pick and choose which parts they are enforcing or not.

looby75

moremore wrote: »

Do not let them touch you walls inside your home as their specialty is to mess up everything twice as bad as they found it. This guy has no right to come into your home. How are the common areas of your building kept and do you pay for maintenance of the common areas. If you pay maintenance for the common areas and are not kept clean to a reasonable standard then complain like hell about that in writing and do not let up as they are a lazy lot of b******s.

BTW they will not do any internal work inside your home, if you are not disabled and claiming benefits.

Also you should be aware of this also.

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/tenancies/council-warns-tenants-of-bogus-housing-letters/6526630.article

the house had a total refurb including a full rewire, new central heating system, new kitchen, bathroom, hardwired smoke alarms and new fancy fireplace in the sitting room (which I love and is always kept in pristine condition )

as part of the rewire they changed socket positions lowered light switches etc to fit in with current building regs (the house hadn't been touched for 25+ years before that) the issues I have are all things that haven't been done right from that refurb such as the light fitting in the downstairs hall way not working, big gaps in the plaster around the bath and loo that another inspector identified on his post renovation inspection and advised me not to decorate the bathroom until they were fixed. I've also since found floorboards that are loose in some of the areas that they were taken up for the new central heating system and I think there may be a slow/small leak in some of the pipe work under my bedroom flood/over my sitting room ceiling as there is a damp patch that is very slowly spreading. I didn't notice it at first tbh (one of the plumbers put their foot through the ceiling and they did a really good job of patching it up so I first thought it was just the colour difference) but it is getting bigger.

I would have hoped the council were responsible for sorting those issues out.

lighting_up_the_chalice

moremore wrote: »

Do not let them touch you walls inside your home as their specialty is to mess up everything twice as bad as they found it. This guy has no right to come into your home. How are the common areas of your building kept and do you pay for maintenance of the common areas. If you pay maintenance for the common areas and are not kept clean to a reasonable standard then complain like hell about that in writing and do not let up as they are a lazy lot of b******s.

OP lives in a house, not a flat.

moremore wrote: »

BTW they will not do any internal work inside your home, if you are not disabled and claiming benefits.

That's simply incorrect.

lighting_up_the_chalice

looby75 wrote: »

I would have hoped the council were responsible for sorting those issues out.

Yes, they are.

looby75

well after just watching hoarder next door I KNOW my sitting room isn't a health or fire hazard lol