Burgarly - tenant

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You don't have to be a joiner to change a lock.

harrys_dad

If the room did not have a working lock and the house was shared with other tenants I doubt contents insurance would have paid out anyway.

elsien

If there's no lock, no clear sign of forced entry to the house, plus cleaners/other tenants who could all have nicked your stuff, then I agree contents insurance probably wouldn't cover it.
For future reference, have a look at temporary locks on Amazon.

dimbo61

Check out ebay or Amazon for safes.
Check out one of the many comparisons websites for contents insurance and put in your details.
Complain in writing to the letting agents and ask which redress scheme they belong too.
If this is a HMO then the Lanlord has paid for a license from the council. Complain to the council HMO enforcement officer.

zagubov

deannatrois wrote: »

You don't have to be a joiner to change a lock.

Everybody I know would agree that I have a competence and dexterity in DIY well below the level you'd expect from a blind sleep-deprived ape wearing boxing gloves, and yet, decades before the youtube era, I managed to easily change a lock on the door of my home.

OP, please, try to be more proactive about your home security.

FBaby

If you were so concerned, you could have paid for a large safe and put your valuable things in.

steampowered

Op, have a good read of your tenancy agreement. Does it say anything about the landlord keeping the property in good repair?

BorisThomson wrote: »

Two months and you didn't sort the lock yourself?

zagubov wrote: »

Everybody I know would agree that I have a competence and dexterity in DIY well below the level you'd expect from a blind sleep-deprived ape wearing boxing gloves, and yet, decades before the youtube era, I managed to easily change a lock on the door of my home.

Changing the lock may well have been a breach of the Op's tenancy agreement.

There is certainly a clause in the tenancy agreement for the place I'm moving to which says I'm not allowed to change the locks.

Gscott87

steampowered wrote: »

Op, have a good read of your tenancy agreement. Does it say anything about the landlord keeping the property in good repair?




Changing the lock may well have been a breach of the Op's tenancy agreement.

There is certainly a clause in the tenancy agreement for the place I'm moving to which says I'm not allowed to change the locks.

Thank you! Il have a good look through! There could be potential since my tenancy agreement is for the room specifically as part of a house share, not for shared access of all the property if that makes sense. A lot of people have said it should be lockable since other tenants don’t have the right to access your room as that’s your tenancy if that makes sense.

As for the lock, it didn’t seem a simple job either as the pre existing lock doesn’t align up with the current door frame, wasn’t a simple case of unscrew and replace (in my opinion)

EachPenny

dimbo61 wrote: »

If this is a HMO then the Lanlord has paid for a license from the council. Complain to the council HMO enforcement officer.

Could you please clarify the grounds of complaint - just so the OP doesn't waste their time, and the council's, making a complaint about something which has zero chance of coming to anything.

Techno_Mystic

harrys_dad wrote: »

If the room did not have a working lock and the house was shared with other tenants I doubt contents insurance would have paid out anyway.

Endsleigh will cover it I think as they specialise in students and tenants. Whether they will pay out is another matter...