Who should pay?!

monkey8

I moved into a new house on July 1st.

The land lady was the previous tenant and was with airtricity and rang them to say that she was no longer living here and didn't give them our details so we had our gas and electricity cut off today. We had no warning and have a baby with medical needs so needed to pay a reconnect of €150 and an emergency reconnect fee of €150 on top of that.

Airtricity said they sent a letter to the landlady on June 26th which we obviously didn't get and they say she should have registered that there was tenants staying there.

Do we have a good case to get at least a part payment of the reconnection from the landlady?

Yawns

Why didn't you ring up and get an account with Airtricity or one of the other companies?

scwazrh

monkey8 wrote: »

I moved into a new house on July 1st

Do we have a good case to get at least a part payment of the reconnection from the landlady?

No .

Did you honestly move into a house 3wks ago and not wonder who's account was given you electricity?

ted1

You should have put the electricity in your name. Surly their was letters posted to the occupant before it was cut off

Who is charging you?
If its Airtricity tell them to take a hike.

https://www.electricireland.ie/ei/residential/manage-your-account/reconnections-new-connections.jsp

Should be less than 80 euro

Just saw that your gas is off, that will be another 70

https://www.electricireland.ie/ei/residential-gas/manage-your-account/reconnections-new-connections.jsp

So 150 is right. I guess this is a lesson in becoming an adult and having to do things for yourself.

L1011

Nope, no case. First thing you do on moving in somewhere is give meter readings to your chosen supplier.