Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To be annoyed at council waiting times

416 replies

Dancingfairy · 02/08/2017 19:54

My council has a 3 week wait for all repairs. The light in my bathroom has gone, it's not a standar bulb so someone from the council has to come to sort it. I have to wait 3 weeks! So I cannot use my bathroom after a certain time, I usually bath my children before bed but won't be able to for 3 weeks. Aibu to think it should be sorted sooner?

OP posts:
Thread gallery
6
Laulau79 · 03/08/2017 22:26

ClopySow - everything you say is true, don't let the ignorant/Thick person wind you up ,
I know it's easier said than done but some people are obsessed with the idea that they pay for others 😬

Floggingmolly · 03/08/2017 22:20

Oh get a fucking grip, clopy, I didn't advocate for anyone, I explained basic microeconomics. No skin in the game whatsoever.
You sound vicious Confused

ClopySow · 03/08/2017 22:17

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Aquathest · 03/08/2017 22:01

@Dancingfairy A friend has advised that if there is a faulty light in a bathroom with no window, it is a priority 1 job; especially where if the household has vulnerable/young children. This is because it is a health and safety risk ( unseen water puddle on floor causing a serious fall etc)

Maybe this is just applicable to her HA and not generic across all social housing but the reasoning for the priority makes a lot of sense to me and I would query this H&S issue further this with your council.

I know your light isn't faulty but as PPs have pointed out, if it is the responsibility of your landlord (outlined in your tenancy) then the blown bulb should only be changed via the the same repair process you would use if it were faulty.

Floggingmolly · 03/08/2017 21:36

Bollocks? It's the way the world works, whether you like it or not.

ClopySow · 03/08/2017 21:34

Because technically, the market value of an item is whatever someone is prepared to pay for it, and selling below that value (for whatever reason) is subsidising the product

Bollocks. Prepared to pay for it? Nobody wants to pay market value. There is no choice. Capitalism is fucked up.

colinthecaterpillars · 03/08/2017 21:27

I have the same bulb as that and I buy mine in a hardware shop.Smilehope this helps

LonelyGir1 · 03/08/2017 21:13

So...what did the OP do?

HelenaDove · 03/08/2017 21:10

Beebee did you read any of my links.

Its not as simple as that.

Floggingmolly · 03/08/2017 21:10

Do people choose to pay the higher rate at Boots? Because technically, the market value of an item is whatever someone is prepared to pay for it, and selling below that value (for whatever reason) is subsidising the product.
They're foregoing a portion of potential profit = subsidy. A little off topic, though??

HelenaDove · 03/08/2017 21:06

There is a thread on this board about Boots overcharging for the morning after Pill.

Superdrug sell it much cheaper.

Yet no one is saying that Superdrug are subsidizing women by selling it cheaper.

If Boots or anyone else had come out with that how would it have gone down?!!!

zukiecat · 03/08/2017 20:49

Your photo looks more interesting than mine Clopy!

zukiecat · 03/08/2017 20:48

I tried three times to post that pic

Kept saying failed

ClopySow · 03/08/2017 20:47

Spacey

To be annoyed at council waiting times
ClopySow · 03/08/2017 20:46

Same as mine zukie

Except my photo came out looking like a ufo

zukiecat · 03/08/2017 20:42

Is this the fitting OP?

I don't have a clue how to change mine, I can't physically anyway

I'm not allowed to touch it even if I could

To be annoyed at council waiting times
ChasingHighs · 03/08/2017 20:19

What do you think tamper proof means?

CosmicPineapple · 03/08/2017 20:16

Or you could comply with the fire regulations.and not put everyone else in your tower block at risk.

Erm changing a light bulb will not cause a fire. The most it will do if done incorrectly is blow the bulb.
That kind of hysterical thinking is not helpful.Hmm

HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 03/08/2017 20:14

It depends on your council OP, what does your tenancy agreement say regarding repairs and maintenance?

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 03/08/2017 20:13

Does your bathroom not have a window OP?

OP has mentioned her bathroom does not have a window.

HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 03/08/2017 20:09

Does your bathroom not have a window OP?

I work in this area, for us depending on the household circumstances it would be done within a week. Not council tho.

dishwasher71 · 03/08/2017 20:05

All in all, I just think it is a sign of the times that we are now envious of people who live in council houses. I admit, I wish I'd not bothered to buy a house. I was a bit horrified to hear of a woman who'd bought herself a one-bedroomed flat many years ago and was now having to share her bedroom, albeit with a curtain running down the middle, with her 17 year old son. If she had rented, she might have had a chance of a two-bedroomed flat, either council or private, and perhaps with housing benefit to top up the rent. Buying is no longer affordable or even desirable for people, when they can't afford to make even the most basic repairs and some people, in houses that they have bought, are living in pretty much slum conditions. Backwards we go.

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 03/08/2017 20:03

Beebee7 I was not addressing you. I was addressing the pp, per their quote in bold above my comment.

Beebee7 · 03/08/2017 19:52

@WhatToDoAboutThis2017

??? Confused EH?

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 03/08/2017 19:49

And?

That's the way our world works. So if you don't like it, go off the grid and leave the modern world behind you.