flat woes

Oct. 11th, 2003 09:45 am
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So, the flat is warm again. After some haggling and harassing and bombarding the landlady with phone numbers of emergency sercives, she managed to find a plumber who could come out last night and fix the problem. It was an air lock near the hot water tank, which had very conveniently been boarded up (!) behind a kitchen worktop. Normally, hot water tanks are in easy-to-open cupboards. The C.H. system is so old that the engineer had real trouble figuring out what was where.

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Right, Percy should be one happy bunny now?

RONG.

See, our landlady was really upset by her bad handling of the situation. She felt that it was terrible that we were without central heating and hot water for nine days. So she is seriously thinking about handing the flat over to a property company to manage.

Which would mean a rent hike of at least £100.

Yes, one hundred pounds or roughly twenty percent. From £525 per month to £625-650.

And the shower that she promised us to have installed when we moved in? The shower for which we were prepared to SPLIT THE COSTS WITH HER because we wanted to make this flat our home for our remaining time in Edinburgh?

There will be no shower.

She is thinking about remodelling the bathroom, and anyway, the bathroom is too small for an "American-style" shower anyway.

Do you know what an "American-style" shower is?

A shower with DECENT PRESSURE.

Date: 2003-10-12 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perceval.livejournal.com
Well, it's common to charge that for 2 bedroom flats in Edinburgh, so the price we had before was really good. But I just don't want to let anybody get away with a 20% rent hike, if you get my drift?

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