Replacement Mattress

Jumblebumble

saajan_12 said:

HarryGray said:

We bought our own mattress and gave the LL mattress to the charity shop..We are now taking our mattress to our next house. 

This is inherently unreasonable - you shouldn't have disposed of the LL's property without permission, and open yourself up to covering the LL's resulting loss. However the age of the exisitng mattress does mean the value of the LL's claim is small. You could: 
- leave your current mattress there.
- replace the LL's mattress with another 2nd hand one in similar condion
- Pay the depreciated value of the LL's mattress. 
You know the cost of the first two, so there's some certainty there, so for the 3rd you could ask the LL what the depreciated value would be - they can't make up a high number, but they could clarify when they bought it so you can decide which is cheapest. A mattress can get stained within the first year and its personal choice whether you wanted to sleep on it, but that doesn't mean it didn't still have years of life before the springs etc actually wore out, and could have been used with a mattress cover. 

Find out (a) when the LL bought the mattress and (b) what the expected lifespan was (might be a guess). Then calculate (100% - a / b ) x £167. 

What do you think the landlord might have said if the OP asked permission to do what they did?
I think it is pretty unreasonable to expect a tenant to use a disgusting mattress and would have done exactly what they did.

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Jumblebumble said:

saajan_12 said:

HarryGray said:

We bought our own mattress and gave the LL mattress to the charity shop..We are now taking our mattress to our next house. 

This is inherently unreasonable - you shouldn't have disposed of the LL's property without permission, and open yourself up to covering the LL's resulting loss. However the age of the exisitng mattress does mean the value of the LL's claim is small. You could: 
- leave your current mattress there.
- replace the LL's mattress with another 2nd hand one in similar condion
- Pay the depreciated value of the LL's mattress. 
You know the cost of the first two, so there's some certainty there, so for the 3rd you could ask the LL what the depreciated value would be - they can't make up a high number, but they could clarify when they bought it so you can decide which is cheapest. A mattress can get stained within the first year and its personal choice whether you wanted to sleep on it, but that doesn't mean it didn't still have years of life before the springs etc actually wore out, and could have been used with a mattress cover. 

Find out (a) when the LL bought the mattress and (b) what the expected lifespan was (might be a guess). Then calculate (100% - a / b ) x £167. 

What do you think the landlord might have said if the OP asked permission to do what they did?
I think it is pretty unreasonable to expect a tenant to use a disgusting mattress and would have done exactly what they did.

I see that this mattress has gone from having stains and being uncomfortable (according to the user) to being a "disgusting mattress"! I'm sure there were alternatives to dispatching the landlord's property to the charity shop and I think it IS better to communicate between landlord and tenant.
I suggest letting the landlord apply via the tenancy deposit scheme. After betterment is taken into account the deposit deduction should be low.

AskAsk

replace the mattress, but if it was not new when you moved in, then you just have to replace it with a similar condition.

greatcrested

If it was that disgusting I'm surprised a charity shop accepted it.

And surprised you had the nerve to take it to one!

AskAsk

greatcrested said:

If it was that disgusting I'm surprised a charity shop accepted it.

And surprised you had the nerve to take it to one!

lol