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renting and a jammed door

rantingmum · 2015-06-19 09:55:00

Hi, We rent from a large HA. We live in a terraced house. Our back door has been getting stiffer, so last Monday I raised a repair request online. This was acknowledged and they'd be in touch with my appointment in five working days. They emailed on Tuesday with an appointment in just over two weeks. I wasn't bothered by…

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Kynthia Posts: 5,692 Forumite

19 June 2015 at 1:53PM

Annie1960 wrote: »

Ring Shelter to find out what your rights are. It sounds unreasonable to me that you should have to wait so long for a door to be fixed, and as has been said above, possible H&S aspects.

That's a bit excessive. Using the resources of a housing charity because s back door repair is not being done soon enough! Lots of flats only have one route of exit/escape and as the OP is in a house I presume there are ground floor windows that could be used in an emergency.

Don't listen to me, I'm no expert!
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