Excess heat in private rented

RHemmings

MultiFuelBurner said:

Back to the original.comments unless there is an unknown source of heat left on 24/7 then it's just life skills.of living in the eaves of a property and how to cool and ventilate it properly.

Common sense required.

There's one property on my list of properties I'm interested in which is a three story terraced five bedroom house. While I'm mostly joking here, I did wonder that, if we bought it, if we could migrate to the top floor in the winter and return to the lower two floors in the summer. 

lookstraightahead

MultiFuelBurner said:

theartfullodger said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

As there are no upper limits for the workplace I doubt there are any for residential properties. 

See HHSRS..

Yeah it luckily falls under the purview of common sense. Which is open windows for ventilation.

I can't see anywhere where a landlord has been prosecuted for excess heat. Happy for someone to find it 

With the warm spells we now get in the UK I wonder if we all need to install air conditioning for the 6 weeks of the year it may be needed.

Amazing how much common sense seems to have left.

Where my daughter was at uni, if she had had asthma the 'fresh' air from her inner city room on the main road wouldnt have helped in the slightest. Most uni accommodation is rubbish and is in areas where you really don't want to keep your big windows open at night for all kinds of reasons, including safety (and many don't have the options of small windows, or indeed if you're up high you might not even be able to open them much). I doubt the op's child lives in the middle of the rolling countryside.

Common sense is all well and good, but context is key. In fact, it's part of common sense. 

MultiFuelBurner

Yes we can all come up with the perfect storm as to why.....thats the beauty of forums for my ying there is always a yang.

The sensible answer is someone with acute asthma should of course select their property very carefully and use their common sense based on their particular medical needs.

It just move anywhere and blame someone else 🤣😜 that's society today for you.

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Just a reminder, if the son has/leaves  a computer on all day it will make the room warmer, I know this from the  'office; in my house ( working from home).  Only option is to open windows.