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Boiler needs replacing - landlord broke!
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I get what you are saying, but ultimately you are going to have to start making moves to free yourself from the lease if this issue doesnt get sorted, and there is no point in playing nice now if it weakens your position down the line.
Id be inclined to see how tonight goes first and then plan your next move accordingly. If you get the impression that this issue is not going to get sorted any time soon then you are going to have to start thinking about whats best for you and your family, even if it means some short term unpleasantness until the matter gets sorted. Your landlord might be a family friend and a decent bloke, but ultimately he is running a business without the financial ability to do so, and you are the one who is suffering.
Best of luck tonight either way; I hope it works out for you.
Thanks :P The baby has turned me into a soft touch I think, 5 months ago and I'd eat landlords for breakfast!
I'd be happy to wait for him to fix it if the rent was drastically reduced to reflect having to heat it with portable radiators and doing laundry and showering at my mums. I'm sort of just hoping he either comes down and announces an immediate fix, or he suggests letting us move out of the house himself. I'm too emotional to fisticuff right now
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Do you happen to have any friends who are plumbers / gas fitters who would do the job and let you pay them over the next couple of months with the full rent until paid off. They should be allowed add a little to the price to compensate them for doing it.
Not ideal I know but just a thought.
He is the plumber/gas fitter
And the chimney sweep And the carpenter And the electrician
You see where I am going with this, right? 0 -
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Again I'd just write to him giving him a week to do X then do it and take it out of the rent. I used to have a brilliant LL who whenever anything went wrong, would give us a budget and tell us to get what we wanted. Got a really nice Hob and Oven over the time we were there. IIRC I was going to chuck €50 on top of what he was going to pay for the oven to get a better one (figured it was worth it for the use) and he even paid that.
Sounds like yours isn't really in the same position.
If a tenant of mine wanted to paint the place I'd be trowing money at them as long as it was tasteful... then I HATE painting!
Want a one bet flat in D8 OP? :pac:
It was a large, unsavoury family living here before us. Luminous pink walls are now magnolia, with the fireplace wall dark red. We sanded the skirting and re-varnished it, got the furniture steam-cleaned (the cream couches were almost black) and polished the floor. He told us he was really grateful and the place looked fab. We did plan to stay for a while and cheaply paint the whole house, but little things have cropped up that totally put us off. There is a burnt out shed (previous owners set fire to it) and it is FULL of cats. I mean there are at least 5 cats in our garden at any one point. I've asked him over and over and over to get rid of it, but it's still there. We offered to pay for the skip if he supplied the labour, still dragged his heels. It took him two weeks to fix the electric shower, which was leaking into the kitchen. We're still waiting on the rest of the garden to be fenced by him so our dog can take a leak outside without his lead on 0 -
ShaShaBear wrote: »It was a large, unsavoury family living here before us. Luminous pink walls are now magnolia, with the fireplace wall dark red. We sanded the skirting and re-varnished it, got the furniture steam-cleaned (the cream couches were almost black) and polished the floor. He told us he was really grateful and the place looked fab. We did plan to stay for a while and cheaply paint the whole house, but little things have cropped up that totally put us off. There is a burnt out shed (previous owners set fire to it) and it is FULL of cats. I mean there are at least 5 cats in our garden at any one point. I've asked him over and over and over to get rid of it, but it's still there. We offered to pay for the skip if he supplied the labour, still dragged his heels. It took him two weeks to fix the electric shower, which was leaking into the kitchen. We're still waiting on the rest of the garden to be fenced by him so our dog can take a leak outside without his lead on
You honestly need to start treating this as a business deal which it is. If he's friend or you don't want him upset at you fine but in the end you're the one who's going be in trouble.0 -
ShaShaBear wrote: »It was a large, unsavoury family living here before us. Luminous pink walls are now magnolia, with the fireplace wall dark red. We sanded the skirting and re-varnished it, got the furniture steam-cleaned (the cream couches were almost black) and polished the floor. He told us he was really grateful and the place looked fab. We did plan to stay for a while and cheaply paint the whole house, but little things have cropped up that totally put us off. There is a burnt out shed (previous owners set fire to it) and it is FULL of cats. I mean there are at least 5 cats in our garden at any one point. I've asked him over and over and over to get rid of it, but it's still there. We offered to pay for the skip if he supplied the labour, still dragged his heels. It took him two weeks to fix the electric shower, which was leaking into the kitchen. We're still waiting on the rest of the garden to be fenced by him so our dog can take a leak outside without his lead on
So why are you surprised he is doing nothing about the boiler. Does indeed sounds like its time to move out of the lazy fookers property.0 -
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He should have the original deposit locked away. He could use that. The OP should say it to them and then tell him that she'll hold back the last month when she's moving in case he hasn't had a chance to save it up again
I am the OP :P Original deposit was only €500 in any case!
Case closed anywho, he just arrived down and told us the new boiler will be delivered and installed tomorrow evening. Hopefully he follows through, getting sick of using perfectly good tea-water for the bottles! 0 -
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ShaShaBear wrote: »Definitely so! I'll not ask where the boiler or the money came from :rolleyes:
If anyone in the North East is mysteriously missing a boiler, they went thatta way
Joking, really. Just looking forward to being warm and having dry clothes!
Shashabear do you not have a line outside or tumble dryer ? I think you have to have somewhere to dry your clothes that is not the radiators! I just read the thread and I think those cats scare me more than no boiler!0 -
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ShaShaBear wrote: »We do have an outside line, but in fairness it has rained here for hours on end every day for weeks, they'd get wetter outside! We're hoping to buy our own drier in the next week or two. The cats do worry me as well. My dog goes toilet outside and we've had to confine him to one area to try and make sure I'm not picking up the wrong poop :-/
That's good you have a line, you can't beat a line even if they only get a couple of hours on it for freshness
dryers are very handy and not too expensive. I am not a cat person so those cats would just scare me! Plus they would drive my dogs mad! Does anyone fees those cats? Or they feral? If so I would try and see if someone or rescue would do that trap neuter release thing! 0
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