Door Smashed who to repair?

Takeaway_Addict

The door didn't bang anything then when you let it swing?

Kynthia

I wouldn't be happy with the fact that you regularly swing the door shut behind you as you need to do that with much more force than pushing it closed. However the fact that the door has previously been faulty does mean it's not easy to know whether this, wear and tear or your repeated use of excessive force was to blame.

Takeaway_Addict

Ah so you swung it back to close and put it under undue strain....you to pay IMO

greenface

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Toughened glass shouldn't simply shatter.

Was it toughened ? in most cases it should be . Toughened can shatter through normal use could be badly fitted . could twist , glass can break without anyone being anywhere near it .

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

I've never seen a glass panelled door break through normal usage.

Tenant pays unless they have a crime number reporting vandalism or a break in.

MisterB1959

I would expect the tenant to pay on this occasion, the op said they swung the door shut, what is it with people that cant close a door properly, and feel they just need to push/swing it shut. use the blxxdy door handle to close it properly!!


my daughter was the worlds worst at just swinging doors shut, but strangely now she has her own house, she shuts doors properly using the handle and not by swinging them shut!

splishsplash

MisterB1959 wrote: »

I would expect the tenant to pay on this occasion, the op said they swung the door shut, what is it with people that cant close a door properly, and feel they just need to push/swing it shut. use the blxxdy door handle to close it properly!!


my daughter was the worlds worst at just swinging doors shut, but strangely now she has her own house, she shuts doors properly using the handle and not by swinging them shut!

My elder daughter is 22 years old and cannot open or close a door properly. It drives me NUTS.

OP, it sounds like you slam the door to shut it. That is not how you are supposed to close a door. No wonder it smashed. You should pay, unless you can show the pin caused the door to catch.

If that was the case though, then the door wouldn't have been closing prior to that and would have already been reported, wouldn't it?

Better_Days

Glass can break for no apparent reason.

This happened to a large pane of glass in our conservatory. It faced onto the garage with just a path in between so nothing hit it and DH and I were in a different part of the house. Made a really loud noise when it went Chap who fitted the conservatory changed it for us no problem.

In this case it's very hard to say if the breaking glass was the fault of the tenant or not. I must admit, even if the tenant was a bit heavy handed I'd expect a nearly new door not to shatter in the circumstances described unless there was a direct blow to the glass or the frame was slightly twisted.

How about splitting the cost 50/50 as tenant could have been more careful, but it is also possible that the glass or door was faulty?

mustangu

This happened with one of my tenants a few years ago. Letting agents had the glass replaced and claimed on the insurance.

MisterB1959

Better_Days wrote: »

Glass can break for no apparent reason.

there WAS a reason it broke, the op swung the door shut and didn't close it properly using the handle, if they had closed it using the handle, it wouldn't have happened


why is everyone looking for a reason to shirk their responsibilities, or give someone else the idea its ok to do so?


if the op had come home to find the glass smashed or the glass smashed when the door was closed for some unknown reason, then that's a different matter.


and as for glass suddenly breaking in a conservatory, it might have been fitted incorrectly and not allowed for any movement of the conservatory frame as it expands and contracts, difficult to believe someone would just fit a new double glazed unit at their cost just because youre nice people, but if you say they did ......