so ****ed off

Gaygle

Gaygle

Gaygle

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Yesterday i had a little incident with my oven/grill in that i set it on fire.

The landlords guys came round ummmed and ahhhhed and said that we need a new oven and it'll cost about £200 quid.

i haven't got 200 quid! and its only a realllly **** oven, and from what i've been looking at, ovens similiar to this are only around £120. Will they take it out of the deposit, or will it have to be paid upfront?

/rant
 
Unfortunately you damaged the oven and you have to cover the costs of it. Try to find the same oven in a catalogue or on a printed internet catalogue page and show to your landlord that you'll pay for that one and get it fitted for him.
 
Argue it. Don't see why you can't have some input. They can't put a crap one in, wait for something to happen, replace it with a top notch one and charge you for it.

Get some prices together for a similar spec oven.
 
They should take it out of the deposit, normally that's what it's for. I know when I was renting in a student house our deposit would cover an damage that might happen. But surly they can pay something towards it?
 
I mean, i know it's my fault entirely. The oven they want to replace it with is a direct replacement for the one that i burnt. Around here, all the student houses use the same ovens and stuff (they all get them from Howdens Joinery) which is a trade only company, so naturally, i can't see any of the prices. The oven is a Diplomat ADP3242 and it truly is a basic oven.

On websites like Ikea they have their basic ovens for £120!
 
InvaderGIR said:
Me and my mate did it in halls last year, flames licking up the front of it. :eek:

But we cleaned the front off and you couldn't tell. :D

InvG
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Yeh, this is basically what happened (using the grill at the time) and the fat caught fire - spent about an hour yesterday with cillit bang cleaning it up, and it cleaned up nicely. The grill seems to still work ok, but the fan inside seems to be buggered. All you can hear it the hum of it trying to turn.

EDIT: its a private landlord guy
 
:eek:

We actually set sausages on fire that were under the grill, so nothing broke, just smoke/burn marks. Brilliantly we didn't set the smoke alarm off either. :)

InvG
 
Gaygle said:
which is a trade only company, so naturally, i can't see any of the prices
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Just ring them up and ask for a price. If they ask pretend you're about to buy/furnish a student house in the area.

Does the cost include the ~ £50 they'll have to pay a corgi registered engineer to disconnect/connect the oven?
 
If you can prove that nothing is broken then you have a good case to fight the need to replace it.
 
Gaygle said:
Yesterday i had a little incident with my oven/grill in that i set it on fire.

The landlords guys came round ummmed and ahhhhed and said that we need a new oven and it'll cost about £200 quid.

i haven't got 200 quid! and its only a realllly **** oven, and from what i've been looking at, ovens similiar to this are only around £120. Will they take it out of the deposit, or will it have to be paid upfront?

/rant
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How did you manage to set it on fire?

They should take it out the deposit. Ideally. I don't see what you have to complain about.
 
Lysander said:
How did you manage to set it on fire?

They should take it out the deposit. Ideally.
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The fat from the burgers, caught fire, which then burnt the inside top of the oven (and obviously melted the fan) and flames were coming out of the front and melted the control knobs and blackened the front.

Hopefully they'll take it out of the deposit...
 
InvaderGIR said:
Me and my mate did it in halls last year, flames licking up the front of it. :eek:

But we cleaned the front off and you couldn't tell. :D
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Impressive.
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Gaygle said:
The fat from the burgers, caught fire, which then burnt the inside top of the oven (and obviously melted the fan) and flames where coming out of the front and melted the control knobs and blackened the front.
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You'd think they would make them fireproof really. Defies logic.
 
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