No Kitchen for 18 Days - Barely Any Compensation?

Kim_kim

Could you buy a slow cooker?
Maybe even a second hand one at a car book or Facebook - they are very cheap though.

Carrot007

diggingdude wrote: »

Just how much drying are you doing, mine doesn't cost near that

Indeed let's work it out! JFF.


https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/laundry/tumble-dryers/logik-lcd7w18-7-kg-condenser-tumble-dryer-white-10174299-pdt.html


Sorta looks like mine, not the make but whatever (condensors are always better in my view, who want a hole through the wall letting the cold in, in winter when you use it!


Energy consumption per cycle
- Full load: 4.18 kWh
- Half load: 2.31 kWh


I think I pay just under 16p a kWh so let's call it 16p


So £9.50 for drying (which I am sure the post did not mean but that's what it said)


So apparently a large bag of washing is 59 loads in the dryer. Either that or people do not understand the cost of anything!

sew_what

YOu need the landlord to provide one of these!
https://www.thetemporarykitchencompany.com/kitchens/

Smodlet

I, too, could post kitchenless survival stories such as my wonderful OH cooking large amounts of spag bol on a 2 ring plug in thing lent to us by a friend, who used it for making candles but again, circumstances were different.

Given the other issues you have had with using the kitchen and random rellies rocking up unannounced, OP, I would seriously try your college's welfare people first and the council a close second.

Worst case scenario, you can minimise the costs as illustrated above and on the Old Style Moneysaving Board but depriving you and your co-tenants of kitchen facilities for two and a half weeks is unacceptable without adequate compensation. Ideally, your LL should be providing you all with alternative accommodation or, at least, temporary kitchen facilities.

I do think this might be an ideal opportunity to get to know your fellow-renters, if at all feasible. Who knows what five heads may come up with, rather than one? Just an idea which I realise may not appeal.

Good luck and please let us know how you get on, OP.

System

Has anyone actually asked the landlord about relocating the fridge and microwave into the living room? I get that you're annoyed about the work, and that's fair, and you also have other reasons to be fed up with this landlord. It isn't your irritation that's the overreaction - it's the way you've elevated it to disaster proportions, it comes across as very whiny teenager and won't do you any favours. Yes it's inconvenient, but I suspect with a bit of planning you could manage to do one load of washing in the middle of the period and handwash your smalls in between. And assuming the fridge and microwave are accessible, you'll survive by googling for things you can cook in a microwave, probably without it costing you anything extra at all. All said and done you might end up with £30 extra in your pocket afterwards, and the knowledge of a few new recipes, and discover you're not as helpless as you thought. Maybe approach this with less "disaster" attitude and chat with the landlord first about the fridge and micro, ask for some plastic washing up basins and see if they'll provide drinking water, it's a more cooperative attitude to take and more likely to get some success than just asking for more money?