Landlord Gas Safety Check

tbs624

Check the term of your tenancy agreement - you may be required to grant access (with 24 hours advance notice) specifically for Gas maintenance checks.

You clearly have a lot going on at the moment but as SilverCar say the Landlord is legally obliged to have the gas appliances serviced and certificated on a regular basis. It's in your interest too, even if you're only there for another two or three weeks, although as Silver Car says if the Certificate doesn't expire until after you leave the Landlord can do it on the day you leave.

Even though you do seem to have been more than helpful with non-essential interruptions to your quiet enjoyment of the property, the £30 charge could be a difficult one in that the Landlord may well have been charged a call-out fee by the gasfitter, and you did say that you would be there: that didn't however, give them the right to turn up unannounced on another occasion. You could always write politely to the Landlord saying that you feel that, given your family circumstances and the fact that you are moving because he wants/needs to sell up, you have been as helpful as you could be, and that by way of a compromise you will agree to a new appointment timed for between 6-7.00pm and offer them a choice of 2 dates.

MissMoneypenny

tbs624 wrote: »

the £30 charge could be a difficult one in that the Landlord may well have been charged a call-out fee by the gasfitter, and you did say that you would be there:

Only if they arranged that in writing, surely? How else would the LA be able to prove that the OP said that?

chappers

.....and more to the point its not her responsibilty to be there to let him in, she may have said she would do it as a favour but thats as far as it goes, she has no legal or contractural obligation to do it.

tbs624

chappers wrote: »

.....and more to the point its not her responsibilty to be there to let him in, she may have said she would do it as a favour but thats as far as it goes, she has no legal or contractural obligation to do it.

:rolleyes:

And my first sentence was "Check the term of your tenancy agreement ....."

Sometimes its worth looking for compromise rather than adding unnecessarily to your own stress levels.:D

chappers

Oh I fully agree I just meant this as a legal position with regards to the £30 fee, granting access and being there to let the plumber in are two completely different things. she is required to do one ie. grant access but to be the one there to let them in she is not.