Tenant rights when there's a bad smell!

Louscorp

I recently had a very active wasp nest treated at my rental property outside the bathroom window (the bathroom is downstairs). Following the removal there has been a really horrible smell in the bathroom which it seems is the nest rotting! A wasp company came to have a look and said tiles and roof seal would need to be removed to access and dispose of the nest. This is quite a big job which I am sure my landlord will not want to do and I would like to know my rights as a tenant. My contract is until November and the wasp guy said the smell wont go on its own before then, although it will go eventually. I don't really want to live with this smell until then, its pretty gross. My landlord is usually non-responsive and not particularly cooperative so I would like to know where I stand under tenants rights. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks!

m0bov

The nest should'nt rot, it is dry, more likely a dead squirrel.

In fact they say to leave the old nest in as it stops wasps coming back.

You need to get someone to have a proper look.

Louscorp

m0bov said:

The nest should'nt rot, it is dry, more likely a dead squirrel.

In fact they say to leave the old nest in as it stops wasps coming back.

You need to get someone to have a proper look.

It's the dead larvae from the nest rotting. We has a wasp expert look at it and he confirmed this. Interesting about the wasps coming back. Not sure we can live with the smell though!

propertyhunter

You'd be surprised that removing tiles from a roof isn't actually that big a job. I suppose it depends where on the roof exactly, but I had some chimney flashings and surrounding tiles removed recently and all the roofers who quoted said it was a minor job. 

Louscorp

propertyhunter said:

You'd be surprised that removing tiles from a roof isn't actually that big a job. I suppose it depends where on the roof exactly, but I had some chimney flashings and surrounding tiles removed recently and all the roofers who quoted said it was a minor job. 

Thank you!