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Rented house & no heat

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  • 05-02-2009 3:42am
    #1
    Caroline_ie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I've been renting a house for the past 3 years with a room mate. Everything has been fine until the past few weeks when the heating problems began.
    Tonight, the heating has stopped working, again. I'm writting the in my fleece and wooly socks, in a 12 degres house.

    The heating was also down for a week a week ago. We contacted the landlord who sent a plummer. Altogether, the heat was back on for 4 days. I will call the landlord again in the morning.

    Am I pushing it if I tell them I refuse to pay rent fully at the end of this month since I was freezing cold in my in bed half the time ...

    The landlord tend to always do the thing on the cheap, sending friends to fix stuff when they're not working ...

    Thanks ...


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    sorella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭sorella


    Check the Tenancy Act on the Threshhold or PTRB sites.

    The Act says that if there is undue delay re repairs and it is a safety lisue, then you get the repairs done and send landlord the bill...

    In this weather, it is a safety issue.

    Ring Threshold?

    http://www.threshold.ie/

    Not sure withholding rent is a good idea unless deducting the cost of repair? But they will know.

    Caroline_ie wrote: »
    Hi,

    I've been renting a house for the past 3 years with a room mate. Everything has been fine until the past few weeks when the heating problems began.
    Tonight, the heating has stopped working, again. I'm writting the in my fleece and wooly socks, in a 12 degres house.

    The heating was also down for a week a week ago. We contacted the landlord who sent a plummer. Altogether, the heat was back on for 4 days. I will call the landlord again in the morning.

    Am I pushing it if I tell them I refuse to pay rent fully at the end of this month since I was freezing cold in my in bed half the time ...

    The landlord tend to always do the thing on the cheap, sending friends to fix stuff when they're not working ...

    Thanks ...


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    #3
    Traditional
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭Traditional


    Tell him you want a rent decrease and a heater for your room


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    #4
    athtrasna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    You are allowed to make a deduction from the rent for time without heating. As a landlord we learned this to our cost (not that we deliberately left the tenants without heat - our agent didn't alert us for ages so we couldn't get someone in to fix it when we didn't know it was broken!)


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