Landlord Not Repairing Property

Smellyonion

Heating and hot water is a
requirement. I would personally move out if its furnished (quick and cheap) then demand part rent back.

Pixie5740

Smellyonion wrote: »

Heating and hot water is a
requirement. I would personally move out if its furnished (quick and cheap) then demand part rent back.

Heating in August? Presumably the OP has a kettle so has access for water until the boiler is sorted out. There are ways and means of getting repairs done in a rental property but moving out and demanding part of the rent back isn't one of them.

It does sounds as if the landlord is dealing with the issues since a gas safety engineer has been out several times to repair the boiler and the floorboards have been fixed, the fact the landlord did it himself is irrelevant.

Is the oven an integrated appliance or is it a stand alone oven?

JoshStumbled

We viewed the flat a month prior to moving in, but we're advised not to touch the gas appliances.

The cooker visibly needed a clean, as did the wallsand floors, but as we couldn't check the hot water and we're told it would be cleaned, we couldn't have foreseen this.

The oven is stand alone.

The relevance of the landlord doing the repair himself is important, as he is in his 80s and can barely walk around, suggesting he is not fit to be doing the work.

PersianCatLady

JoshStumbled wrote: »

We viewed the flat a month prior to moving in, but we're advised not to touch the gas appliances.

The cooker visibly needed a clean, as did the wallsand floors, but as we couldn't check the hot water and we're told it would be cleaned, we couldn't have foreseen this.

The oven is stand alone.

The relevance of the landlord doing the repair himself is important, as he is in his 80s and can barely walk around, suggesting he is not fit to be doing the work.

They told you not to touch the gas appliances and that didn't ring alarm bells to you??

Also, running the hot tap for a few seconds is always a sensible thing to do when looking at a property.

A few simple checks and this situation would have been totally avoidable.

Anyway, hopefully you will know these things for next time.

Pixie5740

JoshStumbled wrote: »

We viewed the flat a month prior to moving in, but we're advised not to touch the gas appliances.

The cooker visibly needed a clean, as did the wallsand floors, but as we couldn't check the hot water and we're told it would be cleaned, we couldn't have foreseen this.

The oven is stand alone.

The relevance of the landlord doing the repair himself is important, as he is in his 80s and can barely walk around, suggesting he is not fit to be doing the work.

Does the tenancy agreement say who is responsible for the stand alone oven because it's not necessarily your landlord's responsibility to repair or replace it?

Have the floorboards been repairs? Yes or no?

You asked in your original post what you should do well you should do as CAB advised, escalate the repairs to the council if necessary and keep paying your rent.