Home Disasters
Recently I have been considering what it would be like should I have a real emergency at the house I live at. Luckily I am not the homeowner, that responsibility lies with a poor chap called Kevin…
Let me tell you about the catalog of problems which he faces when we move out later this year.
1. A massive hole in ceiling – caused in part to a badly tiled bathroom which has leaked every shower in the last 2 years onto a poor plaster board wall the result? A wobbly wall… And as I found this Saturday morning a partly collapsed ceiling in the kitchen (directly below the bathroom) Resulting in me having to bring the old man over to clean it up ha.
This hole has since enlarged slightly and various bits of pipe have fallen out and a tile nearly hit me on the head.
2. A hole in the outer wall. About 3 months ago the boiler exploded sending water flying across the poor (starting to feel sorry for it yet?) Kitchen. This happened at about 10pm and I hastily called the emergency landlord contact number and in due respect sent someone immediately. About ten minutes later a huge burly man knocked on the door, I opened it and he proceeded to dash past me uttering expletives about a boiler. After literally ripping the thing off the wall he then turned the water off at the outside stop cock. The next day a group of lads knocked on the door and refitted a new boiler and its been great… apart from the hole in the outside wall that they left and haven’t filled in yet…
3. The sink in the KITCHEN started leaking and it meant that every time we needed a pan it was soaked and smelt funny – really annoying. We called the landlord who eventually sent round a smelly man who then fixed it – but somehow since we have been attacked by mice and there is mouse poo everywhere.
We are leaving soon Thank the Lord. Now the real moral to this story is that yes its the landlords responsibility. Now should I have a first time buyer mortgage, with no or little savings, I surely would be up the creek…?
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