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I've always found that the sticky strips are very good and actually a lot less intrusive than nails.
Its strange how one LL will prefer something and its totally different to the next in order to pad out a tenancy agreement.
My offspring is just about to move out of a student private LL housing and a condition of the tenancy is that the oven is not to be cleaned with oven pride.A bonkers suggestion me thinks as its what I actually recommend to anyone who asks.
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need_an_answer wrote: »I've always found that the sticky strips are very good and actually a lot less intrusive than nails.
Its strange how one LL will prefer something and its totally different to the next in order to pad out a tenancy agreement.
My offspring is just about to move out of a student private LL housing and a condition of the tenancy is that the oven is not to be cleaned with oven pride.A bonkers suggestion me thinks as its what I actually recommend to anyone who asks.
But a rule is there for the making I suppose
Sorry to derail the thread but is it possible that the property has a pyrolytic oven because you're not supposed to use cleaning products like Oven Pride with that type of oven? If it is a pyrolytic oven that should make cleaning it easier though.0 -
Sorry to derail the thread but is it possible that the property has a pyrolytic oven because you're not supposed to use cleaning products like Oven Pride with that type of oven? If it is a pyrolytic oven that should make cleaning it easier though.
I did check this Pixie,because I wondered the same ….but its a bulk standard howdens classic of the ilk fitted in most student letting!in S 38 T 2 F 50
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I prefer nail/screw over the sticky stuff - the latter has a tendency to strip off layer(s) of paint, which is much harder to fix.
So far I have mostly lived in properties with white latex walls. Fixing a hole in these is a breeze - fill the hole with some filler then apply some white tape corrector (the one for documents, 3-5 for a £1 in BM/Pundland etc.). Leaves no sign of a hole.
For cleaning skid marks, there are special sponges you can buy from most supermarkets.0 -
What is it you want to hang on the walls? I didn't use screws, pins or nails to fix things on the walls of places I rented just because I couldn't be bothered dealing with the ballache it would cause when getting my deposit back at the end of the tenancy.
Not OP, but I've got a proper mechanical cuckoo clock which weighs a ton and is worth several hundred pounds, so there are valid reasons for needing to screw things into walls.Despite my name, I'm not a student any more0 -
studentguy wrote: »Not OP, but I've got a proper mechanical cuckoo clock which weighs a ton and is worth several hundred pounds, so there are valid reasons for needing to screw things into walls.
I'm not convinced there is a valid reason you NEED a cuckoo clock hung on the wall. However I see your point of wanting it and as a LL providing you were to make good the wall with filling and painting that would suffice for me.
Although I do specifically have a clause in one of my tenancy agreements not to put nails in a wall.As yet every tenant has complied(I know that because hit one of the 6 gas pipes behind the stud wall and youll know about it.)...so I would rather you didn't hang your clock there thank you.
Wasn't there a thread a few months back about someone in a neighbouring property wanting to know what redress there would be for someone who had a noisy clock that struck the quarter hours all through the day.It was driving the new owner of the property to distraction
Perhaps we have now found out who owned the clock!
Personally the sound of a cuckoo clock next door would be just as bad as a wind chime but thats really sending the thread off on a tangent..in S 38 T 2 F 50
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Complying with the tenancy agreement which states not to put up sticky fixings is not a breach of "quiet enjoyment" of a property. Especially when an alternative has been provided.
Its in the signed agreement therefore it is courteous to request permission.
If they refuse they could cite the signed TA which the tenant was presumably happy with when they signed it.0
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