Landlord refuses to install a heater in the kitchen, is this legal?

gilbutre

Hi everyone,

Temperature in my kitchen goes between 7º and 10ºC these days. Landlord refuses to install a heater in it (I have central heating) and tells me to use an electric heater.

Problem: it's gonna cost like £50 a month or more during winter. This extra heating expense wasn't advertized when I moved in the house a few months ago. Sure, no heater means cold. But this kitchen is special: it's an extension and apparently concrete floor has not been properly installed, the roon is just freezing cold.

Question: does the landlord have the right to refuse to put a heater in the kitchen?

poppysarah

How much time do you spend in the kitchen?
And is the cooker not on whilst you're in there for more than a few minutes?

gilbutre

Well I go to the kitchen maybe 20 or 30 times a day! In total I probably spend an hour at least in it, but it's fragmented in many pieces.

Cooker helps but still when you enter the kitchen, it feels just like going out. I usually take on my scarf and winter coat before going there.

silvercar

This extra heating expense wasn't advertized when I moved in the house a few months ago.

So was there a radiator that has been taken out? Or was the property in the same condition as when you looked at it.

TBH lots of small kitchens have a small electric fan type heater under the units, that would also cost you to use.

SantaKlaus

neither my kitchen or bathroom/shower room (no bath, just a shower lol) has heating, the kitchen joins onto the bathroom, so over a third of the house isn't heated, taking a shower in winter is AWEFUL. Even the toilet freezes during winter. LL is not intrested at all. You're lucky lol

Fishingtime

Of course he has the right to refuse to put in heating, Did the kitchen have a heater in when you moved in ?

gilbutre

silvercar: same condition.

pimento

I don't have heating in my kitchen and the temperature on my fridge door is as low as 10 degrees sometimes during the winter. I tend not to spend hours in there so wouldn't go to the hassle of installing a heater (or have to pay for the fuel bill).

Just put a jumper on.

forgotmyname

Leave the doors open and the heat should spread from the rest of the property?

I found a curtain across the front and back doors to be a big help keeping the heat in.

Torry_Quine

I've never had a heater in my kitchen and don't see the need to and my kitchen can be very cold. However as said you don't tend to spend a long time in there other than cooking which produces heat so you would either have it on when not needed or be switching it on for short times.

I just have a small wall heater in the bathroom which is put on only when bathing and yes it is cold but you don;t spend long there either.

ViolaLass

Heating your kitchen for sporadic visits totalling an hour a day is not very MSE. Just wear slippers and a jumper and be quick.