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What happens if I can't get the gas reading on the last day I move but only 5 days before?
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Surely it's the landlord's problem if you can't access the meters to read them on the day that you need to? Contact them, submit whatever meter reading you can get if they're unresponsive. Will they not be checking the property when you leave? We had an inspection with our landlord when we handed the keys back and took readings then.0
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bertiewhite wrote: »Eh? From what I can make out, you are leaving the property a few days (Monday) before your tenancy runs out (the following Friday).
I am suggesting you provide a final reading when you leave and that if you turn the heating down (or off) the difference in readings will be minimal from when you move out until the end of tenancy.
Why are people not getting that I can't get the reading myself! hence the reason I made the post.0 -
Surely it's the landlord's problem if you can't access the meters to read them on the day that you need to? Contact them, submit whatever meter reading you can get if they're unresponsive. Will they not be checking the property when you leave? We had an inspection with our landlord when we handed the keys back and took readings then.
Well it is not the landlord who is in control of it either. The LL lives on the other side of the country and has never even been to the property and did a 'buy with tenant in situ' and has just bought it as a passive investment. They just let the agent deal with everything (also on the other side of the country; dealing with everything online)
There are building managers for the whole property who have nothing to do with the LL/agent but manage the whole building and are paid I imagine a fee the individual property owners (I am guessing) . The whole building was created by a company as a new build and they sold off the individual apartments to any takers as soon as it was built, some with tenants already in, some empty etc.0 -
But somebody else will be taking the reading? And after that point you won't be there to use any more gas? So why would the reading on the final day of your tenancy be any different?user225688 wrote: »Why are people not getting that I can't get the reading myself! hence the reason I made the post.0 -
You have mentioned in order to gain access you need an FB1 key therefore I suggest you buy one. Only a couple of pounds and most newer buildings will have use for this key as it's widely used.0
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If I was having a panic online over something so minor then I might suck it up knock on a few doors and ask. Or buy a key. A forum can't solve this for youuser225688 wrote: »No. What neighbors talk to each other in big city buildings? Everyone just pretends the other does not exist unless something extraordinary is happening.
Well I spoke to one old lady a few times but I don't know where she lives in the building.An answer isn't spam just because you don't like it......0 -
If you obtain a reading. Can you not estimate a few days usage. A couple of quid is neither here nor there.0
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I would still say it's the landlord's problem, wherever they are and however they bought the property. Who did you have your notice to? Where are you handing in your key? Who is checking to make sure you haven't trashed the place? If you can't ask whoever that is, maybe call your energy company and explain and get them to send out someone to read the meter?0
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But somebody else will be taking the reading? And after that point you won't be there to use any more gas? So why would the reading on the final day of your tenancy be any different?
I will be here though!
The reading is to be taken today, thursday; and I will be here friday, saturday, sunday, monday morning using gas throughout those few days.0 -
user225688 wrote: »I will be here though!
The reading is to be taken today, thursday; and I will be here friday, saturday, sunday, monday morning using gas throughout those few days.
The check out inventory should include the meter readings. If it doesn't just use the last good reading you have or just buy the bloody key.0
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