Renting a freezing cold flat!

rsgreen28 · 27-11-2012 08:10PM #1

hi im renting a freezing cold flat in boyle, im just wondering what can i do about this or what can i ask the land lord to do have i any right's, if i turn heat on for a few hours and thin turn it off again ill have a blanket back on me after 10 min,

Any help be great thanks

Fr_Dougal · 27-11-2012 08:14PM

Keep the heating turned on for the night, tis cold out there.

As a matter of interest, was the flat warm a few months ago?

3ndahalfof6 · 27-11-2012 08:15PM

small blow heater (not expensive) just have it in the room you are using, if you decide to move room take it with you.

in saying that if I was renting a freezing cold flat I would expect it to be that, if it was warm I would be kinda piiissed off.

rsgreen28 · 27-11-2012 08:18PM

it was warm when i moved in and was told its a nice warm flat and im not paying mental esb bills to keep warm, there has to be something that can be done can i ask him to do an energie rating or anything like that.?

El Guapo! · 27-11-2012 08:19PM

Put on a jumper.

3ndahalfof6 · 27-11-2012 08:22PM

Dean09 wrote: »

Put on a jumper.

so you want him to carry a body around with him.

Fr_Dougal · 27-11-2012 08:23PM

rsgreen28 wrote: »

it was warm when i moved in and was told its a nice warm flat and im not paying mental esb bills to keep warm, there has to be something that can be done can i ask him to do an energie rating or anything like that.?

Sounds as if you're experiencing something we call 'winter'. The last few nights have been very cold.

brimal · 27-11-2012 08:24PM

tell the landlord it is too cold to stay there and you will move out if he doesn't do something about it.

are the windows double-glazed? insulation in the walls? etc.

if he says he won't do anything about it, then find another flat - there are loads available these days.

frozenfrozen · 27-11-2012 08:25PM

You should be worried if it wasn't cold... I've got 2 t shirts and 2 hoodies on right now. It's cold out... How cold is your flat? Like is it see-your-own-breath cold inside? If not just man up and insulate yourself

El Guapo! · 27-11-2012 08:28PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

You should be worried if it wasn't cold... I've got 2 t shirts and 2 hoodies on right now. It's cold out... How cold is your flat? Like is it see-your-own-breath cold inside? If not just man up and insulate yourself

Apt username is apt

3ndahalfof6 · 27-11-2012 08:29PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

You should be worried if it wasn't cold... I've got 2 t shirts and 2 hoodies on right now. It's cold out... How cold is your flat? Like is it see-your-own-breath cold inside? If not just man up and insulate yourself

Let us know where you will be walking tonight so we can avoid.

LivelineDipso · 27-11-2012 08:32PM

Boyle is a very cold place in winter being so far from the ocean and the wind comes down off the Curlew mountains.

Is it a modern apartment?

I rented a place above a chipper in an old building in Longford a few years ago. Needed almost no heating a winter. A good tip for looking for a place to live in a provincial town. The old flats above the shops are usually much warmer in the winter. The new ones are cardboard walls.

Knasher · 27-11-2012 08:34PM

rsgreen28 wrote: »

can i ask him to do an energie rating or anything like that?

Any building that is rented since January 2009 is required to have a BER certificate which will tell you how energy efficient it is. You are entitled to see it so you can ask for it if you like. I don't know if you can do anything if you have already signed your lease without asking for it.

You have my sympathy though, the year we had that really bad winter I was living in an apartment with single pane windows. If you left the heating on constantly and didn't go too close to the windows, it was almost bearable.

antodeco · 27-11-2012 08:37PM

Is the flat really small?
When you close the front door do the lights go out?

If so, you're probably living in the fridge.

Hippies! · 27-11-2012 08:56PM

Did you ask to see the BER rating before you moved in OP?

No would be the answer there, tough sh*t I say.

WoollyRedHat · 27-11-2012 09:01PM

rsgreen28 wrote: »

hi im renting a freezing cold flat in boyle, im just wondering what can i do about this or what can i ask the land lord to do have i any right's, if i turn heat on for a few hours and thin turn it off again ill have a blanket back on me after 10 min,

Any help be great thanks

Put a jumper and a hat over the flat outside, if it's cold outside, well then inevitably it's going to be cold inside.

Hippies! wrote: »

Did you ask to see the BER rating before you moved in OP?

No would be the answer there, tough sh*t I say.

As in, Brrrrrrrrrrrr it's cold?

frozenfrozen · 27-11-2012 09:04PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Put a jumper and a hat over the flat outside

Apt username is apt

Hippies! · 27-11-2012 09:04PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

As in, Brrrrrrrrrrrr it's cold?

As in, give the poor lad your wooly red hat

phoenix999 · 27-11-2012 09:07PM

Invest in one or two DeLonghi Dragon oil heaters, they could heat China. They are the job.

Fromthetrees · 27-11-2012 09:19PM

Hibernate in 14 sleeping bags.

WoollyRedHat · 27-11-2012 09:47PM

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Apt username is apt

Yes, it is quite fitting.

Hippies! wrote: »

As in, give the poor lad your wooly red hat

It doesn't come off.

hardCopy · 27-11-2012 09:56PM

Dean09 wrote: »

Apt username is apt

It's a flat not an apartment.

stateofflux · 27-11-2012 09:59PM

amateurs. my old georgian apartment has no central heating. it was so cold in my kitchen in 2010 that i could leave all the food out of the fridge.. olive oil had solidified & taking ones hand from under the covers in bed for more than ten seconds would cause skin to go blue.

KKkitty · 27-11-2012 10:04PM

Shouldn't you be Boyl-ing

Seriously complain to your landlord.

Sauve · 27-11-2012 10:06PM

stateofflux wrote: »

amateurs. my old georgian apartment has no central heating. it was so cold in my kitchen in 2010 that i could leave all the food out of the fridge.. olive oil had solidified & taking ones hand from under the covers in bed for more than ten seconds would cause skin to go blue.

I think you're the amateur here for putting yourself through that!

PucaMama · 27-11-2012 10:06PM

stateofflux wrote: »

amateurs. my old georgian apartment has no central heating. it was so cold in my kitchen in 2010 that i could leave all the food out of the fridge.. olive oil had solidified & taking ones hand from under the covers in bed for more than ten seconds would cause skin to go blue.

mine was the same. we got ice on the inside of the windows.

not yet · 27-11-2012 10:06PM

Break up a few pallets and burn them on the middle of the floor.....job done.

SafeSurfer · 27-11-2012 10:09PM

Days of speed and slow time Mondays -
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday -
Watching the news and not eating your tea -
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls -
That's Entertainment.

JonathanAnon · 27-11-2012 10:12PM

Get a skipping rope.. Really good for warming you up...

Spiritual · 27-11-2012 10:46PM

Get a girlfriend and a BER rating.

27-11-2012 10:49PM

Spiritual wrote: »

Get a girlfriend and a BER rating.

Girlfriends come with BER ratings now?

Renting a freezing cold flat!

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