Do I have to buy a new sofa?

elsien · 12 July 2018 at 8:57AM

pinkshoes wrote: »

YES!!!!

You damaged the sofa, so any delivery costs for it to be disposed of and a new one delivered are for you to pay.

As you knew the sofa was damaged, you could have just replaced it before you left with a very similar one.

And if the landlord had decided the similar one was of inferior quality they might have been stuck with a new sofa no-one wants. You don't go out and buy new stuff without discussion off your own initiative then hope it's ok.

Lololvvs · 12 July 2018 at 12:34PM

I asked them first and showed them pictures of what I had found before I bought. I thought that would be obvious to you.

Cakeguts · 12 July 2018 at 12:39PM

Was the sofa actually leather or just leather look alike?. Just recently we have bought perfectly good leather look alike sofas from a furniture charity shop for use in a centre run by a charity. I think the most expensive was something like £65.

ThePants999 · 12 July 2018 at 1:22PM

The ordinary rule is no betterment, but I'm not certain if your agreement with your landlord could be construed as superseding that, if you genuinely agreed that "if the cat damages any furniture I would replace it".