My flat is baking....

jobbingmusician

I think you're all being a bit hard on the OP. She hasn't asked her landlord for air conditioning, she's just come on here to ask whether it's a reasonable question. We don't think it is, but that is no reason to give her a hard time!

(Plus the OP has got some really useful suggestions about fans )

olibearhorse

wecanhelpu wrote: »

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The weather has been nice lately. So what?

What the hell has this got to do with house buying/selling/renting?

I get the feeling this thread is irritating you? :rotfl: Fair point though!

zorber

D_e_n_i_s_e wrote: »

16" pedestal Fan

£9.99 in Netto next week
£9.99 in Morrisions
£12.99 in Aldi next week
£19.99 in Tesco

All so in the coop at £9.99 now

olly300

The OP may have not been brought up in the UK so doesn't realise that air con is NOT standard in UK houses.

In fact the only people I know who have had some form of air con in summer have been pregnant.

Meatballs

Just to be a little subversive:

You would complain if the heating doesn't work and it was too cold. Equally after a certain temperature the flat must be classed as unfit for living in. What do they do in foreign countries? Are the LLs responsible for AC or the tenants?

There must be accomodation that hits stupidly high temperatures due to location/build etc - and this is dangerous to the occupants health. ( I dont know if this applies to the current location).

"The World Health Organisation recommends 24oC as a maximum temperature for comfortable working. The Chartered Institute of Building Services suggests 22.8oC."

If we are going through global warming, then AC is going to get more and more common! :P

teedy23

jeez this is a tough room, if it happened in a prison cell there would be hell to pay. I think to just ask the question is reasonable, you dont know till you ask

LilMissEmmylou

Meatballs wrote: »

If we are going through global warming, then AC is going to get more and more common! :P

i agree, i live in a new build and all the houses here are fitted with it

thesaint

Meatballs wrote: »

Just to be a little subversive:

You would complain if the heating doesn't work and it was too cold. Equally after a certain temperature the flat must be classed as unfit for living in. What do they do in foreign countries? Are the LLs responsible for AC or the tenants?

There must be accomodation that hits stupidly high temperatures due to location/build etc - and this is dangerous to the occupants health. ( I dont know if this applies to the current location).

"The World Health Organisation recommends 24oC as a maximum temperature for comfortable working. The Chartered Institute of Building Services suggests 22.8oC."

If we are going through global warming, then AC is going to get more and more common! :P

You would complain if the heating didn't work, but in this case, there is not any A.C that needs fixing.
It's not a requirement to provide heating though is it (I have not checked this)?
If there were A.C. provided, it would be necessary to have it repaired.
The World Health Organisation recommendation relates to working not living.

sandy2_2

Freeze some plastic bottles full of tap water, place them in front of an electric fan,, switch on and then let the air flow cool the room, it's what we do here in Spain

Meatballs

thesaint wrote: »

You would complain if the heating didn't work, but in this case, there is not any A.C that needs fixing.
It's not a requirement to provide heating though is it (I have not checked this)?
If there were A.C. provided, it would be necessary to have it repaired.
The World Health Organisation recommendation relates to working not living.

Ok fair point, there may not be a requirement to have heating in rented accomodation.

I realise it relates to working temperature, not living, but it was the only guage I could find (and remember it states a maximum not an ideal) - and a lot of people do strenuous activity in the home such as cleaning.

If I rented a remote cottage without heaters, it would be obvious that it could get very cold during the winter and my rent would reflect this. It would be very hard to judge the temperature of a flat in summer when viewing at another time of the year! (Equally the landlord may not know about a temperature problem unless it is brought to their attention so they would be unable to let the tenant know).

I would expect rented accomodation with an extreme of this kind to be reduced in price to cover the cost of extra heating/extra cooling/discomfort.

I would seriously consider action if my flat suffered extremes of temperature (too cold or too hot) that I was not fully warned about before taking up the tenancy. Obviously you rent on the assumption that somewhere is fit to live in.

I don't know what temps I would consider extreme but of course I would try to be reasonable, I'm sat in my boxers upstairs typing this because my room is quite hot - haven't complained about that.

Obviously everyone has different tolerances, and there are no guidelines (that I know of) but there are definitly health considerations to take into account.

Would a landlord be negligent letting without due warning a cold , unheated cottage, to a frail/unfirm elderly person? Then take the scenario and ask what if it's too hot?

Its a grey area and I dont know but think it's worthy of thinking about.