A bit of advice regarding no hot water/heating after 3 weeks

FBaby

You're get to g confused with what service you think you are getting for your rent. What you are getting for the service you pay is a roof over your head, access to electricity and gas and entitlement to repairs in reasonable time. Unless your contract specify it which I doubt you are not paying for access to gas and electricity 24/7 365 days a week no matter what.

You have a very deluded vision of what paying rent entitles you to.

lookstraightahead

NeilCr Lots of people rent short term because they are not settling in a particular area, away from family and friends, and sometimes they don't have spare money. What you are asking is that the tenant forks out extra for something that should be available to them. If this is the case, why can't the landlord fork out that extra/pay for gym membership etc. Yes the boiler might be more efficient eventually, but where us that extra money coming from in the meantime? And also you can bet when reletting the landlord will state what a nice shiny new boiler they have which will be under warranty and save the landlord money.

NeilCr

lookstraightahead wrote: »

NeilCr Lots of people rent short term because they are not settling in a particular area, away from family and friends, and sometimes they don't have spare money. What you are asking is that the tenant forks out extra for something that should be available to them. If this is the case, why can't the landlord fork out that extra/pay for gym membership etc. Yes the boiler might be more efficient eventually, but where us that extra money coming from in the meantime? And also you can bet when reletting the landlord will state what a nice shiny new boiler they have which will be under warranty and save the landlord money.

But, I'm not in all cases. Lots of people do know someone who could help - could be friend, could be work colleague, could be a shower at work. Many wouldn't have to "fork out".

And, people do belong to gyms - and, as I said earlier, if I thought the landlord was decent and trying their best then £18 isn't much - and, as you accept, they will get the money back. I guess they could repay the landlord out of that? After all they wouldn't be out of pocket.

Again. Reverting to the OP there is no suggestion that she couldn't have a shower. The query was around the repair times clause which contains the word "should"

lookstraightahead

FBaby wrote: »

You're get to g confused with what service you think you are getting for your rent. What you are getting for the service you pay is a roof over your head, access to electricity and gas and entitlement to repairs in reasonable time. Unless your contract specify it which I doubt you are not paying for access to gas and electricity 24/7 365 days a week no matter what.

You have a very deluded vision of what paying rent entitles you to.

So you would argue that the contract stating total loss of heating or hot water should be sorted in three to five working days isn't appropriate because they tried hard and you can boil a kettle for hot water? Would that work in other industries, eg, train delays, flight delays, not getting paid at work?

FBaby

Should be 'sorted'? Interesting choice of world for a legal document!

lookstraightahead

FBaby wrote: »

Should be 'sorted'? Interesting choice of world for a legal document!

I assumed you had read the op's initial post, sorry! I should say 'repaired' just to clarify.

I'm not sure what an "interesting choice of 'world'" is either ...