Halls fine

Rumman

Yep thats correct. I ve seen leather suites for less 1350, and those chairs are made of mdf type wood, oh well!!

melancholly

Rumman wrote: »

oh well!!

wow - for the rip off prices they're trying to charge you, i wouldn't be going 'oh well', i'd be having strong words with the landlord. £75 to paint a room!! :eek: you could buy a pot of paint for £10 and do it yourself - that would do more than one room too!

i think you need to speak to someone in the accommodation office at your uni - they need to know about students being ripped off like this and they are probably the only people with the power to make the landlord back down/

Oldernotwiser

£300 to have a room decorated seems reasonable to me; it doesn't get on the walls by itself! If the students had wanted to save money, why didn't they redecorate it themselves before they left?

Blacksheep1979

erm I'm fairly sure they don't strip paint off the walls before repainting.

Oldernotwiser

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

erm I'm fairly sure they don't strip paint off the walls before repainting.

You've lost me!

C_Ronaldo

Why dont you and the other people involved speak to the landlord and come to a compromise, but £200 odd quid for a chair is a bit much

Blacksheep1979

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

You've lost me!

doh, sorry - thought 'on the walls' read 'off the walls'

anyway a professional painter/decorator will manage to do more than 1 room a day at far less than £300 a day.

The only other thing tha tmay go in your favour (OP) - did you sign an inventory when you moved in?

Oldernotwiser

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

anyway a professional painter/decorator will manage to do more than 1 room a day at far less than £300 a day.
?

I wish! Have you had any decorating done recently; 2 coats needed, £200 per day decorator, £70 materials (assuming a decent sized room), admin costs. Not a lot of change from £300.

Blacksheep1979

Well I'm assuming most rooms to be the bedroom and they aren't generally huge - when I've done work on a building site painting I was expected to do more than 1 room a day that was of that kind of size. Also if it is University maintained then they will use inhouse people who will be salaried and on far far less than £300/£200 a day.

CrispyUK

From the halls rooms I've seen they seem to be painted fairly quickly and probably by the regular maintenance teams, based on the flecks of paint on door frames, furniture, light switches and whatever else meets the walls, which you'd expect to have been masked off on a 'professional' job