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Privately Rented, does Landlord have to provide immersion heater by law?
zmblake
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Hi there, wondering if you can help. In private rented house, moved in end of April 2021. Sunday woke up to no heating and no hot water, rang agency as managed by them. Plumber attended this morning, said that we need a new flow switch - so will order part and confirm to landlord. All good, he then asked me about hot water and i said no, none. Said to use immersion switch, I said pretty sure we don't have one. He went and looked and said correct, the actual immersion tank (hot water tank in linen cupboard) isn't even wired in. Seems like whoever put water pump in for shower used the switch for the immersion for the water pump for the shower, instead of putting a spur in next to the water tank. The plumber said we really should have the immersion tank wired in as thats our back up for hot water.......in case our boiler i.e. which it has until we get a new flow switch. My question should the immersion/water tank be wired in by law (if such a thing), does the landlord have to do this? Or as long as boiler working, we are OK not to have a backup. We are a family of four, my sons are 11 and 9.
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No such requirement so long as there is a means of heating and hot water - which there is.Landlord seems to be getting repair done,so all good.3
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Our back up is a kettle and an electricity supply.....
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Thank you - as long as Landlord continues doing what they should legally, we are fine
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Most modern systems (combi) do not have a tank anyway so there is no option for a backup.2
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As said, he doesn't have to wire in the immersion, but he does have to repair the heating/hot water provision within a 'reasonable' time. Unfortunately definitions of reasonable can differ between tenants and the LL. But it does seem like the LL has reacted as quickly as humanely possible so far so its looking good.
Its always a good idea to have hot water bottles with covers around.1 -
Are we in the realms of Human Rights here deanagone.....?deannagone said:.... it does seem like the LL has reacted as quickly as humanely possible ...
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A landlord has to act as reasonably as possible. The test is largely what a home owner would do, often Landlords achieve fixes faster than a home owner as they have relationships with existing contractors who know they are reliable payers, not question quotes etc.0
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