Just a quickie here, it's the time of the year where I have a tremendous spat with my landlord.
So when I moved in (December), the landlord had had some renovations done to the flat (secondary glazing and painting). They were told by whomever did the work that the water pipes would need replacing throughout the flat as they were lead and likely to burst at some point - I'm guessing they're just corroded with age. The house is Victorian, so fair enough.
The landlord neglected to inform me of this or that the work would need to be done when I moved in because "they didn't want to add to the stress of moving." They came knocking on Sunday to tell me that this work needed doing, but they had "forgotten" (quite how you forget something like that for 7 months is beyond me). Given the size of the flat and the complexity of the pipework, the place will essentially be a building site for the best part of 2-4 weeks depending and during this period will obviously have no running water.
The landlord has said I can use the kitchen and bathroom in another flat, but this means having to leave my flat, go out to the street and enter the next flat every time I want to have a dump, get a glass of water or shower. They also said that they wouldn't charge rent whilst the work is being done (lol, thanks).
So, my options (as I see them) are as follows:
I'm tending toward option 2 personally. What do you think?
So when I moved in (December), the landlord had had some renovations done to the flat (secondary glazing and painting). They were told by whomever did the work that the water pipes would need replacing throughout the flat as they were lead and likely to burst at some point - I'm guessing they're just corroded with age. The house is Victorian, so fair enough.
The landlord neglected to inform me of this or that the work would need to be done when I moved in because "they didn't want to add to the stress of moving." They came knocking on Sunday to tell me that this work needed doing, but they had "forgotten" (quite how you forget something like that for 7 months is beyond me). Given the size of the flat and the complexity of the pipework, the place will essentially be a building site for the best part of 2-4 weeks depending and during this period will obviously have no running water.
The landlord has said I can use the kitchen and bathroom in another flat, but this means having to leave my flat, go out to the street and enter the next flat every time I want to have a dump, get a glass of water or shower. They also said that they wouldn't charge rent whilst the work is being done (lol, thanks).
So, my options (as I see them) are as follows:
- Hand over the keys and say nothx. The tenancy agreement doesn't have a break clause, but as far as I'm concerned it was signed uberrima fides, something clearly not reciprocated. If I'd known of this, I would not have moved in.
- Inform them that the work is unacceptable and that they will simply have to postpone the work to be done until I move out in December. It has managed to go 7 months with my light water usage and will, in all likelihood, manage another 4.
- Suck it up and live with the fact that I can go for a dump rent free in somebody else's house for a month.
- Cease all communication with the landlord and deal instead with the letting agent and instruct them to find another similar spec property for me to move into immediately. As per the first point, I was effectively mis-sold the let on the property.
I'm tending toward option 2 personally. What do you think?
