- Housing Disrepair
When you are a tenant in a rented property, landlords are required by law to make sure certain aspects of your living space are kept in good working order and repaired if necessary. It can be very disheartening if a landlord refuses to make arrangements to repair your home after falling into disrepair for whatever reason. There are steps you can take to make a claim for housing disrepair and a claim for compensation for the effect it has had on you as an individual.
- Faulty Heating
If you are making a housing disrepair claim against your landlord for boiler or heating system issues, you should be made aware of the rights you have as a tenant to a property providing safe, reliable heating for you and those you live with.
Generally speaking, your landlord is required by law to make sure you have access to hot water, within an agreed timeframe of course.
If your landlord is refusing to cover the costs of repairing a serious heating issue, especially if this lack of heating has caused illness, you will be able to make a compensation claim through us.
- Leaking Roof
If you’re a housing association tenant or are renting privately, there are fewer more distressing issues than leaking water due to loose slates or broken tiles. As well as keeping you up at night whenever you hear the sounds of rain against your bedroom windows, the real concern with a leaking roof is just how much damage could be caused if not rectified as soon as possible.
- Damp And Mould
Unfortunately, damp walls are a common problem in many homes across the UK, and you may witness several different types of damp in your council house or privately rented accommodation.
When making a housing disrepair claim against your landlord for damp, or damp leading to mould, it’s important to know what type of damp issue you are dealing with, and whether your landlord is responsible for carrying out repair work.
- Vermin
There are probably fewer more distressing sights or sounds as a tenant in a rented property than seeing a mouse or rat scurrying through rooms in your house, or scratch against cavity walls while you’re trying to sleep.
Making a housing disrepair claim for vermin can also include infestations of bedbugs, fleas, and other unwanted inhabitants in your living space, and are likely caused because of disrepair to windows, or cracks to external walls.
- Rotting Windows
If you are a tenant living in a housing association, council house or private rented property, you might be wondering whether you can claim against your landlord for rotting window frames.
While you have to give your landlord a reasonable amount of time to respond to and ultimately fix issues relating to dry or wet window rot, there are certain circumstances where you are able to escalate your legal right to live in a safe and secure household.
- Vegetation Growth
While many housing disrepair claims against landlords will naturally revolve around the state of living in terms of the interior of a rented property, there can also be scenarios where a claim can be brought for overgrown vegetation on the exterior.
Vegetation growth that hasn’t been managed carefully over the years can actually cause damage to the exposed brickwork outside.
This can lead to cracks and holes that can make a property less insulated at best, or a threat to the safety of you and others living there at worst.
- Plumbing & Drainage Problems
Given that UK law states that landlords are obliged to make certain repairs to a property without passing on the cost of any repair work to tenants, issues with plumbing and drainage are among the most important to have fixed.
As the legislation dictates that all sewers, drains, guttering and rainwater pipes should be in good working order, any issues of this kind should be attended to as swiftly as possible – and within 24 hours should it involve a burst water pipe or inability to use sinks or toilets.
