No heating or hot water for a week in rented house

NJamesN

It's a disease.

Thankfully, the imbalance in rights/duties is slowly being corrected, bit by bit - deposit protection, TFA, selective licensing and now the upcoming ban on no-fault evictions.

millwalls wrote: »

I think it's ingrained in the psyche, this notion that tenants are a sub-class of residents living their lives at the pleasure of the landlord.

The worst of it is that even many tenants have imbibed that attitude, being grateful for the landlord barely meeting his legal obligations.

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foxy-stoat wrote: »

Their plumber - who else?

I don't know to whom the poster was referring and neither to you since owner occupiers don't tend to post on this board about heating issues therefore how could the same posters on this thread be advising owner occupiers to raise hell.

AdrianC

Lover_of_Lycra wrote: »

I don't know to whom the poster was referring and neither to you since owner occupiers don't tend to post on this board about heating issues therefore how could these same people be advising owner occupiers to raise hell.

There's also likely to be more acceptance of the sheer frustrating realities of trying to get trades to turn up from those who've been owner occupiers...

Cakeguts

NJamesN wrote: »

It's a disease.

Thankfully, the imbalance in rights/duties is slowly being corrected, bit by bit - deposit protection, TFA, selective licensing and now the upcoming ban on no-fault evictions.

You know where the ban on no fault evictions is going? It is going towards no fault evictions because no property to be evicted from unless you can pay the extremely high rents that build to rent companies charge. When the small landlords sell up people who can't get a mortgage will have the choice between living with relatives or very high rents from build to rent companies.



There is no such thing as a no fault eviction. There is always a fault.

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AdrianC wrote: »

There's also likely to be more acceptance of the sheer frustrating realities of trying to get trades to turn up from those who've been owner occupiers...

Are you saying that owner occupiers don't have a magic wand to get boiler repairs carried out within 24 hours no matter what the issue? I am shook.

missprice

Lover_of_Lycra wrote: »

Are you saying that owner occupiers don't have a magic wand to get boiler repairs carried out within 24 hours no matter what the issue? I am shook.

Yeah, me too. You sure they dont have magic on their side?

Skiddaw1

To be fair to the OP (and to other posters in rented accommodation who have raised similar issues) I do think that it's much less stressful when you're (to some degree at least) in control of the situation (as you are when something goes wrong in a property you own). When you're in a rented property you're right down the food chain aren't you? Reliant on the agent/landlord/landlord's contractor for your issue to be resolved. That's a whole heap more frustrating (especially coming up to Christmas, with two small children, etc). I'm pretty sure I'd be feeling equally churned up and panicky if it were me in that situation.

SnooksNJ

Skiddaw1 wrote: »

When you're in a rented property you're right down the food chain aren't you? Reliant on the agent/landlord/landlord's contractor for your issue to be resolved. That's a whole heap more frustrating (especially coming up to Christmas, with two small children, etc). I'm pretty sure I'd be feeling equally churned up and panicky if it were me in that situation.

Even below the OP are seniors living in my neighborhood who are on a fixed income and can't afford to have central heat installed in their homes. I don't know how they do it. Even on Little House they all had fireplaces.

Skiddaw1

Yes indeed Snooks. Unless you're doing the self-sufficiency thing it's almost unthinkable now to live in a house with no central heating isn't it? It was different in the pre-heating days when houses all had fireplaces and ranges (and coal/firewood was easily obtainable).



I hope no one who has posted on the thread was offended. I just think it's easy when you're in more comfortable circumstances to be a tad condescending to posters like the OP who have comparatively little control over their surroundings.

AdrianC

Skiddaw1 wrote: »

Unless you're doing the self-sufficiency thing it's almost unthinkable now to live in a house with no central heating isn't it? It was different in the pre-heating days when houses all had fireplaces and ranges (and coal/firewood was easily obtainable).

It's also very different in other parts of the world.

In the UK, those "seniors" would have various grants available if they were home owners, and priority access to social housing with heating installed if they weren't.