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As you know, my girlfriend and I moved house a couple of months ago. The plan was to share a house with my eldest brother for 18 months and save some cash possibly as a deposit on our own place. My sister and her family had a 5 bed house they were renting so we moved in. All cool so far.
Cut to a few weeks later: the downstairs toilet/bathroom hadn't been finished, the oven didn't work properly and the hot water was very temperamental. All these were jobs my brother in law said would be fixed within a week of us moving in. He came round last week with an enginneer to look at the boiler and find out what was up with the hot water. (It would run lukewarm, cold and maybe hot if we were lucky). He couldn't find anything wrong with it.
Cut to Christmas Eve: boiler dies completely. We had NO heat and NO hot water. I phoned my sister to tell her. My brother in law couldn't drive to the house as he had been drinking. Christmas Day comes and goes, nothing happens. By Boxing Day evening, the house was down to 9 degrees and the cats didn't want to eat in the kitchen as the floor was too cold to walk on. I spoke to my sister again and she told me the boiler was our responsibility as we apparently broke it. Nevermind that they are the owners and as such have to pay for repairs such as a broken boiler.
End result is I got a guy out yesterday who found three problems the first guy missed. The boiler works, I'm £100 worse off and we're now so fucked* off with the whole thing, we're looking at moving house...2 months after moving in.
*OK. I lied.
Cut to a few weeks later: the downstairs toilet/bathroom hadn't been finished, the oven didn't work properly and the hot water was very temperamental. All these were jobs my brother in law said would be fixed within a week of us moving in. He came round last week with an enginneer to look at the boiler and find out what was up with the hot water. (It would run lukewarm, cold and maybe hot if we were lucky). He couldn't find anything wrong with it.
Cut to Christmas Eve: boiler dies completely. We had NO heat and NO hot water. I phoned my sister to tell her. My brother in law couldn't drive to the house as he had been drinking. Christmas Day comes and goes, nothing happens. By Boxing Day evening, the house was down to 9 degrees and the cats didn't want to eat in the kitchen as the floor was too cold to walk on. I spoke to my sister again and she told me the boiler was our responsibility as we apparently broke it. Nevermind that they are the owners and as such have to pay for repairs such as a broken boiler.
End result is I got a guy out yesterday who found three problems the first guy missed. The boiler works, I'm £100 worse off and we're now so fucked* off with the whole thing, we're looking at moving house...2 months after moving in.
*OK. I lied.