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Garden flooding with sewage / LL ignoring

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  • 04-01-2016 2:11am
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    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭


    We have a plumbing issue the the LL is ignoring
    We have a family and the garden may be unusable if this continues. Repeated calls / messages have been ignored

    How can we get the LL attention as its a health and safety issue at this stage

    Is private rented property covered under some sort of health standard ?


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    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    worded wrote: »
    Is private rented property covered under some sort of health standard ?

    Simple answer-yes.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/renting_a_home/repairs_maintenance_and_minimum_physical_standards.html

    If your home does not meet the minimum standards

    Local authorities (in their role as housing authorities) are responsible for enforcing these minimum standards. If you think that your home does not comply with the standards, you should complain to the local authority, whether you are a local authority tenant or housing association tenant. If you are a private tenant and you think your accommodation is sub-standard or your landlord refuses to carry out repairs that are included on the aforementioned list, you can ask the local authority to make the landlord comply with the standards. See 'Where to apply' below.

    Failure to comply with the minimum standards can result in penalties and prosecution. Housing authorities can issue Improvement Notices and Prohibition Notices to landlords who breach the minimum standards regulations. An Improvement Notice sets out the works that the landlord must carry out to remedy a breach of the regulations. If the landlord does not do these works, the housing authority may issue a Prohibition Notice, directing the landlord not to re-let the property until the breach of the regulations has been rectified.

    Further disputes between landlords and tenants in the private sector can be mediated by the Private Residential Tenancies Board.
    Contact your local authority.http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/LocalGovernmentAdministration/LocalAuthorities/

    Private Residential Tenancies Board
    PO Box 47
    Clonakilty
    Co. Cork
    Ireland
    Tel:+353 (0) 818 30 30 37
    Fax:+353 (0) 818 30 30 39
    Homepage: http://www.prtb.ie/


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    eoinfitzokk
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    If it is liquid you could get somebody to sample the liquid and test for Faecal Coliforms. If the sewage is coming from the ground, then you could get soil samples and a laboratory could do a leachate test for you and test for Faecal Coliforms.
    In both cases you are proving that there is a human health risk by testing for Faecal Coliforms. Submit the results to the landlord showing the risk to health.

    In either case, you'll have to spend some small cash when it's not your problem to fix.


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