Lodger Wanting to have a Student Over for Lesson

Honeylife

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Even worse if it's a quintet and the lodger one day asks you to collect a trunk from the local railway station.......

:eek: Hadnt thought of that! Actually don't live far from where the original film the Ladykillers was shot in Kings Cross!
That totally confirms it then ... no way students entering my house for private lessons with my Lodger!

GaleSF63

Honeylife wrote: »

:eek: Hadnt thought of that! Actually don't live far from where the original film the Ladykillers was shot in Kings Cross!
That totally confirms it then ... no way students entering my house for private lessons with my Lodger!

But the landlady ended up with all the money...

AdrianC

Honeylife wrote: »

:eek: Hadnt thought of that! Actually don't live far from where the original film the Ladykillers was shot in Kings Cross!
That totally confirms it then ... no way students entering my house for private lessons with my Lodger!

Haven't you seen Shallow Grave? Music lessons simply not necessary.

Murphybear

G_M wrote: »

Some fascinating replies, especially post 7. Huge assumption about both age, and activity.......


From the age of 6 I spent an hour a week alone with my violin teacher.

Reading between the lines here, did you actually learn how to play the violin? Were you any good?:)

borkid

Re insurance if he is a memeber of the musicians union I think they include public liability ins as part of their membership but do check.


You say guitar but what type, even classical guitar sounds can carry but I suspect electric might be quite loud.

lookstraightahead

Does make everyone question whether their own insurance allows them to work at all from home - as most people do at some point. In fact, companies actively encourage it by hotdesking.

unforeseen

lookstraightahead wrote: »

Does make everyone question whether their own insurance allows them to work at all from home - as most people do at some point. In fact, companies actively encourage it by hotdesking.

There is a difference between working from home and running a business from home.

Normally the concern insurance companies have is the customers coming to the house.

Working from home is just doing what you do in work and with very exceptions is just computer and telephone work with no customers visiting.

Hotdesking is a different concept to working from home. The idea being that desks aren't strictly allocated to a person. It means that desks will be available for visiting staff because people will be on leave, visiting other site etc.

We have Hotdesking at work. It works quite well because a number of staff have roles that require them to work at 2 or more different sites during the week. This leaves desks available for visiting staff.

Some companies have embraced working from home in a big way and if your role is all phone and computer work then they allow it for 5he majority of their workforce. One company that I worked for managed to get so many people working from home that they managed to hand back one of the floors that they leased in an office block.

AdrianC

unforeseen wrote: »

There is a difference between working from home and running a business from home.

No, there isn't.

Normally the concern insurance companies have is the customers coming to the house.

And for some businesses, that's not an issue at all, ever.

ThemeOne

In your shoes I'd probably say no, just on the grounds it may not stop at one student.

You could always say yes provided you get a cut of the money. That was not a 100% serious suggestion by the way.

lookstraightahead

unforeseen wrote: »

There is a difference between working from home and running a business from home.

Normally the concern insurance companies have is the customers coming to the house.

Working from home is just doing what you do in work and with very exceptions is just computer and telephone work with no customers visiting.

Hotdesking is a different concept to working from home. The idea being that desks aren't strictly allocated to a person. It means that desks will be available for visiting staff because people will be on leave, visiting other site etc.

We have Hotdesking at work. It works quite well because a number of staff have roles that require them to work at 2 or more different sites during the week. This leaves desks available for visiting staff.

Some companies have embraced working from home in a big way and if your role is all phone and computer work then they allow it for 5he majority of their workforce. One company that I worked for managed to get so many people working from home that they managed to hand back one of the floors that they leased in an office block.

A lot of obvious info there about working from home but that's not what I meant.

If you have a work laptop and it sets on fire, or you trip over cables, or confidential files went missing etc just wondering how that works with the company and or the House insurance policy.