Landlord sent bill for damages to downstairs shop?

Cakeguts

Before you fell on it and broke it there was a perfect plastic roof. Then because of complete foolishness on your part it got broken. I had to be fixed and it had to be fixed quickly and well. Why should the shop owner have a bodged plastic roof because of you? £175 is not a lot for someone who doesn't think properly about their actions. Of course you need to pay it. You also need to pay it without complaining.

KingS6

Chalk this one up to experience. Thinking about it things could have ended a lot worse for you.

It will be a cool story to tell at a party in a few years time.

bigfreddiel

Perhaps if you actually owned the property you could get your own repair man to do the work, you don't do just suck it up and move on, in fact move if you don't like what's happened. fj

AnotherJoe

Another vote to pay up and shut up.

Perhaps because you are renting you dont appreciate this, but if you had a house you owned, and someone else damaged it and then when you arranged to have it fixed the "breakee" said "dont fix that I've got someone who will do it" wouldn't you want to have control of the situation and get it fixed yourself so you knew it was good?

Everything you've written is from your point of view. What you wanted, what you did, you are not thinking about the other person at all, what it seems like to them, the inconvenience it caused them, them wanting it fixed by someone they knew and not the clowns who broke it in the first place!

Its not as if they are taking the michael and asking for £1,750, its only £175, pay up and consider yourselves lucky.

Jamiesmum

£175 ain't bad considering!! Could have been much worse. Put it down to a lesson learnt, pay up and know you'll be laughing about it all this time next week. Not every day you manage to fall through a roof in to a shop. That's amusing to me. (was you hurt?)

I'd also recommend to the landlord he ups the security for the shop. That is quite shocking, really!

prowla

I'd pay the £175.

davidmcn

Is it just me wondering how the OP got back out of the shop after falling into it? Or how they eventually got into their flat?

martindow

£175 for an excellent anecdote to relate to friends and family - sounds good value to me and it will only get better with the telling.

paddyrg

£175 is a total bargain. Emergency locksmith could have easily charged the same. It's half a day of a competent person to check and spec the job, buy the materials, rebuild the roof and make good - plus correct quality materials and probably VAT.

You've also inconvenienced the shop owner hugely and not been penalised for this. You're really lucky not to have been charged for damaged stock. Just pay up with humility, and learn your (very cheap) lesson.

hazyjo

I thought it seemed really reasonable. Surely it'd take someone an hour or so to re-fix, and if it were my roof I'd definitely want my own contractor to do it. Roofs are so important! Not like it's a garden wall outside or something.


On another note, sorry for giggling and wondering if they've caught it on CCTV - and how many times they've watched it :rotfl:


(I'm going straight to hell...)


Jx