in my experience, in situations like this, when the OP asks his flatmate for the money, his flatmate will go "hahahaha, no" and the OP will be out of pocket by £370
Rough cost of door window repair?
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in my experience, in situations like this, when the OP asks his flatmate for the money, his flatmate will go "hahahaha, no" and the OP will be out of pocket by £370
You will be lucky if your mate pays out unless you can produce 3 quotes and give reasons for picking the one you did. Yes his fault and he should foot the bill, but he shouldn't have to also foot your lack of looking around/effort.
Hardly - the people who broke it shouldn't have been there in the first place - and certainly shouldn't have left with a bit of card in the window. I shouldn't have even had to call the 3 places I did (first two were local ones and shut - third was a 24 hour place).
My flatmate will have to pay me (he lives with us, we have to share bills, rent so one person not paying someone else for X will just result in the other person withholding a payment for Y etc... and the other two are already annoyed at him for this happening too - one of them just wants to kick him out) as for whether his 'friends' pay him that's a different matter but they don't really have a right to complain - if they were that worried about how much it would cost then they should have arranged to have it repaired themselves.
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Agree that cardboard isnt sufficient as a temp repair and I had missed that your mate left to go abroad, thought he was just being lazy and not getting things done in a time scale you expected, not that he damaged the flat, left it unsecured and went on holiday. Fair enough but make sure you have all the other people to back you up/kick him out as payment wont be easy to come by esp if he away spending all his Christmas money.
As much as I can see your side of it dowie, I do think you should have tried somewhere else that was open, you can't say you tried 3 places when 2 of them were closed, you went with the first place. If the guy wants to be a **** about it, especially if you decide to kick him out then you'll struggle to get the money out of him and you're £370 out of pocket
Worse than that - he wasn't there - he lent his keys to 4 of his friends while all of us were away so they could stay in London over Christmas - they've since disappeared leaving the cardboard. None of us even knew there were there until he sent a message saying 'by the way my friends couldn't get in and so had to break a window in the door'. I then asked him to message them to get it sorted and that I'd be getting a train the next day. It seems they decided putting some cardboard in the window and then leaving was the thing to do.
He's unlikely to argue too much - I don't doubt he'll be gutted at having to pay so much but everyone else is now annoyed that there were a bunch of people there who we don't know over Christmas. Reality is that he owes me and then these people owe him - it was their responsibility to get it fixed and they left - if he wants to get angry with anyone about the cost then he can talk to his mates who broke the window then did nothing about it. He hasn't got a leg to stand on if he wants to have a go at any of us as pretty much everyone in the flat is now massively annoyed with him and he knows it.
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Your flatmate will have a heart attack when he gets your bill.
(£370 is ridiculous no matter how you look at it)
What ever, a fool and his money are easily parted.
As has been said, £370 buys a whole new door, FITTED.
Besides which, if you take home £370 a day I would boot the flat mate as you dont have a need for him, expecially if he is the kind of dumb ass who goes around smashing the place up.
I would still advise anyone else to take the hour/hour and a half it takes to get the job done from start to finish and do it themselves, it would have cost less than £20 that way.
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Unless your flatmate is a complete pushover I'm afraid your flatmates being annoyed is far from the be all and end all of the matter. You've taken it into your hands to get it repaired, should have either made him arrange it by phone or gone through the landlord, he does not in any legal way owe you that money unless he agreed for your to sort it out and he'd pay you the money.
This. If it was a moderate price you paid (~£150) then I'm sure your housemate would be more inclined to pay up but at £370 (
He won't likely be laughing - everyone is annoyed at him and he'd be lucky to stay for much longer - the room is rented well below market value (he'd probably have to pay an extra £150 a month to find a similar one in the same area) and if he wants to stay in the room he'll have to pay up.