Please delete as ruined by trolls

Moogles44

It!!!8217;s so weird, Martin Lewis is such a happy nice bloke and created this site to help others and it sadly has so many miserable people on it.

I do have legal advice and sorry if it hurt your fingers pressing a button.. pass on by this post if you don!!!8217;t like it! No one is holding a gun to your head to make you comment or vote!

This may have helped me with a certain thing ( with other evidence) keep my home that I!!!8217;ve always lived in , but like above , even though I said it was important you vote yes for a laugh or like another person said, because they wanted to vote yes because I wasn!!!8217;t explaining straight away. Seriously my 5 year old is more mature.

Don!!!8217;t bother voting anymore anyone as like half the threads it just gets nasty . I could write a thread saying isn!!!8217;t it a beautiful day and people would moan on here or be nasty .

Thanks for all the genuine votes though whether they were yes or no, appreciated

kinger101

Moogles44 wrote: »

It!!!8217;s so weird, Martin Lewis is such a happy nice bloke and created this site to help others

But you're not helping anyone, whereas the majority of posters on here do.

Hopefully a moderator will move this to some obscure place, as clearly you have no interest in the legal answer to the question.

Moogles44

kinger101 wrote: »

But you're not helping anyone, whereas the majority of posters on here do.

Hopefully a moderator will move this to some obscure place, as clearly you have no interest in the legal answer to the question.

I didn!!!8217;t ask for a legal answer. It!!!8217;s House buying and renting thread. I wanted to know if it was viewed by the majority as general maintenance that a tenant would always do as I was told it was .

And I help on threads that I know about and in real life, I thought this is how this worked on here.
Thanks so much though

Plus

Did the tenant shoot it with a shotgun? Tenant replaces.
Did the tenant run over it with an HGV? Tenant replaces.
Did the tenant tear it into tiny pieces? Tenant replaces.
Did the boiler break not through the tenant being utterly reckless? Landlord replaces.

cjmillsnun

Plus wrote: »

Did the tenant shoot it with a shotgun? Tenant replaces.
Did the tenant run over it with an HGV? Tenant replaces.
Did the tenant tear it into tiny pieces? Tenant replaces.
Did the boiler break not through the tenant being utterly reckless? Landlord replaces.

I would argue the landlord replaces in all instances (they are responsible for it being safe and to ensure it is they should use their own contractor), but where it is down to wilful damage or recklessness then that is rechargeable.

forgotmyname

Nobody voted for UNSURE so i did

[Deleted User]

It seems to me from experience that if a boiler is in any way repairable the LL doesn't have to replace even though it 'should' be because it constantly breaks down, is expensive to run and doesn't provide proper heat due to age. Having lived in a private rental property with such a situation, and two other properties with new boilers, I know the benefits the new boilers gave (warm property, much cheaper bills).

In spite of two promises in the private rental that the boiler would be replaced if X happened, and it wasn't when X did happen, you can't 'make' the LL replace the boiler if it is in any way repairable. You can if it isn't. But it will take time if the LL isn't willing and you have to force the issue.

I am sorry I can't see the point in the poll as there is a clear legal obligation if the boiler isn't working and isn't repairable, nothing you can do otherwise. That opinion certainly doesn't make me a troll lol. The OP says they will give reasons why but doesn't supposedly because they don't want to 'sway' opinion, an opinion doesn't really mean much. Legal obligations do.

Davesnave

Putting a poll on a discussion forum was bound to fail. It's the nature of this place for discussion and questioning to take place, especially around matters of law.

The people here aren't 'nasty.' When you come here and tell us to do something we don't usually do, it's the internet equivalent of going into a pub and asking the locals to stay silent for half an hour.....then you'll tell them why.

How do you think you'd get on with that?

You have unrealistic expectations.

Pixie5740

Given that all if not most regulars on this board know that it's the landlord's legal responsibility. I'm not sure what use the poll would have been to the OP because the people answering either "yes" or "unsure" were probably taking the Mickey.

worried_jim

The op has thrown their toys out the pram now. I was enjoying this thread. #landlordreplaces