Very scary near miss with our LO :(
Hi all
We had a horrid incident last night in our house.
By way of background, we are renting and have had problems ever since we moved in with the boiler not working properly, leaks etc. The landlord is completely useless - he lives out of the UK and has his daughter managing the property. She is totally incompetent and generally ignores our phone calls/e-mails. But we are stuck with a fixed term lease which doesn't run out till the end of July so don't have a lot of options at the moment.
One of the recurring problems is that the shower (which is in a bathroom above the nursery) has developed a leak. They "fixed" this twice while I was pregnant - on one occasion taking the entire nursery ceiling down, right after we had finished decorating it . The plaster dust made me really ill and I was sick for weeks because I couldn't take anything for it.
Last night after my husband had a shower, water started pouring through a light fitting in the nursery - straight into Toby's cot. We didn't discover this until after he got out of the shower and went downstairs. THANK GOD Toby wasn't in his cot at the time - we have been transitioning him from his Moses basket and luckily he was still in the basket (about to be moved into the cot!!).
When I think of him lying in his cot unable to move (he is swaddled at night) while water poured onto his little face, I feel so upset and angry. Hopefully he would have woken and cried out before anything terrible happened but he could have drowned!
Naturally the landlord has not returned our calls or replied to our e-mails. We can't use the shower now (charming) and there is water damage in the nursery so I'm reluctant to put Toby in there again.
We are seriously considering just walking away and forfeiting our deposit - we just don't feel that this is a safe place for our LO anymore. If they have to take the ceiling down again I don't want him being exposed to all the dust etc like last time. If it made me that sick imagine how bad it would be for a 2 month old baby? This is just the latest in a long line of problems we have had to deal with.
Sorry for the long rant but I am a bit upset as you can understand. I'm not really asking for advice (unless anyone has experience with residential lettings disputes!!) but just wanted to get that off my chest. Needless to say my LO has been getting lots of hugs today.
C xo
We had a horrid incident last night in our house.
By way of background, we are renting and have had problems ever since we moved in with the boiler not working properly, leaks etc. The landlord is completely useless - he lives out of the UK and has his daughter managing the property. She is totally incompetent and generally ignores our phone calls/e-mails. But we are stuck with a fixed term lease which doesn't run out till the end of July so don't have a lot of options at the moment.
One of the recurring problems is that the shower (which is in a bathroom above the nursery) has developed a leak. They "fixed" this twice while I was pregnant - on one occasion taking the entire nursery ceiling down, right after we had finished decorating it . The plaster dust made me really ill and I was sick for weeks because I couldn't take anything for it.
Last night after my husband had a shower, water started pouring through a light fitting in the nursery - straight into Toby's cot. We didn't discover this until after he got out of the shower and went downstairs. THANK GOD Toby wasn't in his cot at the time - we have been transitioning him from his Moses basket and luckily he was still in the basket (about to be moved into the cot!!).
When I think of him lying in his cot unable to move (he is swaddled at night) while water poured onto his little face, I feel so upset and angry. Hopefully he would have woken and cried out before anything terrible happened but he could have drowned!
Naturally the landlord has not returned our calls or replied to our e-mails. We can't use the shower now (charming) and there is water damage in the nursery so I'm reluctant to put Toby in there again.
We are seriously considering just walking away and forfeiting our deposit - we just don't feel that this is a safe place for our LO anymore. If they have to take the ceiling down again I don't want him being exposed to all the dust etc like last time. If it made me that sick imagine how bad it would be for a 2 month old baby? This is just the latest in a long line of problems we have had to deal with.
Sorry for the long rant but I am a bit upset as you can understand. I'm not really asking for advice (unless anyone has experience with residential lettings disputes!!) but just wanted to get that off my chest. Needless to say my LO has been getting lots of hugs today.
C xo
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By the way, we own a property which we rent out and I would be MORTIFIED if this happened to our tenant.
Hope things get sorted for you xx
sarah
We have previously written to the landlord pointing out all the ways in which he has breached the lease (there are lots more which I haven't mentioned!), and we ring his daughter ALL the time, but they just don't seem to care! I just can't understand it. I think the problem is that they don't want to have to pay for the repairs and are hoping that we will just give up and leave
We will definitely be ringing the council on Monday, thanks for the tip WoW Baby!!!
C
Yeah, definitely speak to CAB tho. I bet you have some sort of right to quit the tenancy early. Especially as it could have put your baby at risk x