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Use the excellent idea of the crap overflow preventer.
The world isn't a nice place, never admit to anything like this or apologise. Always blame someone else or something
Advice needed premier inn damage in room!
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Use the excellent idea of the crap overflow preventer.
The world isn't a nice place, never admit to anything like this or apologise. Always blame someone else or something
This could probably be argued, on the grounds that the bath has an overflow designed to remove excess water, that it would be reasonable to assume that this would prevent the bath from overflowing as it did?
Of coures, this relies on so much else being held to be true. Unfortunately, I don't have access to any of the BS's which may contain information on overflow requirements and their legal requirements, assuming there are any at all.
No, that's a terrible argument because it's like saying "it's not my fault the house I burnt down got so damaged, I assumed the fire extinguisher was full!".
Furthermore, a overflow is there to minimise the risk of flooding, not a be all fail safe to tackle water coming out at 5000mph.
My opinion is that you are at face value liable, but you could resist paying damages until they can prove their loss.
I've still heard nothing more! However I'm feeling as I only gave them a deadline of Friday over the phone that will not come into it if it does go that long!
I will be arguing the case and waiting on full evidence!
On the phone they said they were not chargin for loss of the room for 7 days the charge was only the carpet and fitting!
I wish I hadnt been honest now!!
I will be arguing the case and waiting on full evidence!
On the phone they said they were not chargin for loss of the room for 7 days the charge was only the carpet and fitting!
I wish I hadnt been honest now!!
To be honest £500 sounds about right, removal of old carpet/underlay, supply of new carpet/underlay, labour, and sundries. They wouldn't exactly be able to carpet around the furniture so that would require moving so more labour. A hotel room will see a lot of travel so it would make sense they use a hard wearing type carpet like you would get in an office or school and not the type of thing you would expect in the family bedroom, so even if it looked crap it could have been expensive.
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Our bathroom has carpet, and I got told of for making the bath overflow and soaking the ceiling once
I CANT EVEN HAVE A NICE BIG SOAK IN THE TUB? >:X
The water is supposed to stay in the bath.. and you're not supposed to leap in like a killer whale and splash the ceiling
I had to wait 2 weeks to have a carpet fitted so it can...
My point was that it wouldn't get you out of a negligence claim for damages as flooding damage is a direct and foreseeable consequence of leaving a running bath unattended, especially when the effort taken to reduce the risk was so low (Wagonmound 1 + 2 - I can't believe I remember that case, law power!).Cleeecooo said:
If you're a hotel, it does not take you that long to have a carpet fitted.
Yes because he agreed to their terms and those terms would have included costs for damages he caused being charged to him.
Can they prove the damages were caused by him?
Well as he was the only one with access to the room apart form staff, and he admitted it, and the reception most likely has cctv which would have recorded him admitting it...
CCTV records sound?
But accidents happen. The laws/regulations/ fixtures in place are there, anticipating the accident. If you do something stupid like burn your trousers whilst ironing the the fire extinguisher should be full as it's not that unlikely that it would happen. Same with the bath. Fairly likely that somebody at some point will let it overflow
not very often