Neighbour has spilled petrol and my whole house stinks

[Heysiriyouknob]

Ok, so my powers of smell are obviously shit and I thought it was a gas leak (in my defence it's the living room that stinks and there is an old gas fire in there we don't use).

Called the "if you smell gas" emergency number they came out within half an hour. He immediately knew it wasn't gas but checked everything. He knocked next door and after much swearing (our next door neighbour is a fucking joy), was told that he had spilled some petrol on his patio.

This was at 11pm. The whole down stairs of my house stinks now.

Am I being stupid about worrying about fire risk from next door? I didn't go to sleep last night worrying there would be a fire next door.

I can't tell you how much my living room stinks. Front windows open all night (another reason for no sleep, we live in a crap area).

A night of no sleep so anxiety is off the scale this morning, always worse on no sleep so I'm not really thinking.

What do I do?

Worth asking the landlord to do a licence agreement on the decant property with rent payable on normal property just reduced via notification in a letter.

Then you don’t need to sign new tenancy.

@mumwon

op presumably IL have signed form to say they are giving you deposit (isnt that required? I am sure that I read that somewhere -probably on another thread on here!) breach of contract (reaching!)?

Yes they had to sign paperwork for the mortgage company stating it was a gist and provide bank statements showing they had the amount.

@CornishTiger

Worth asking the landlord to do a licence agreement on the decant property with rent payable on normal property just reduced via notification in a letter.

Then you don’t need to sign new tenancy.

He's getting all paperwork together for us to sign.

stating it was a gift*

[quote CervixHaver]@Heysiriyouknob Do NOT accept the deposit from in laws!!!! They will believe that THEY own the house. Will walk straight in, tell you how to decorate, how to have the garden, wi be sat there on sofa when you arrive home, will decide utility companies etc etc - Hopefully I'm wrong but this all sounds extremely likely from how you describe them and how I've read on MN that in laws like them usually behave when providing/loaning deposit.
One thing is for certain though, they'll ALWAYS use it as leverage against you both [/quote]
Believe me, I've had my reservations from the beginning.

@CornishTiger

Worth asking the landlord to do a licence agreement on the decant property with rent payable on normal property just reduced via notification in a letter.

Then you don’t need to sign new tenancy.

Sorry meant to say thank you for your advice! Will Be speaking to him again tommorow.

I can't think how the LL could have done more especially given it's not his fault!

If FIL feels the need to have a word with anyone it’s bonkers NDN. He’s the one at fault. Not your LL.

Just found this thread, what a nightmare op. Your LL sounds lovely though, so great to hear of a good one for a change. Good luck with the move.

How's things, OP? @Heysiriyouknob

Hi!

We've not spoken to the the landlord about it actually. The last thing he said was that it was going to take time to sort out as obviously it's a shared wall.

Still in the flat but things seem to be progressing well with our move, so hopefully this time next month we will be on our way to moving.

In laws still not speaking to Dh though.
I'm trying not to think about that situation.

@Heysiriyouknob

Hi!

We've not spoken to the the landlord about it actually. The last thing he said was that it was going to take time to sort out as obviously it's a shared wall.

Still in the flat but things seem to be progressing well with our move, so hopefully this time next month we will be on our way to moving.

In laws still not speaking to Dh though.
I'm trying not to think about that situation.

Sorry, I've only just seen your reply.

Staggered that your in laws are sulking with your DH because they're angry with your Landlord!?! That's almost funny.

Glad things are fairly uneventful. Uneventful means calm!

Best of luck with everything x

@CervixHaver thank you!

They are speaking again now. With a lot of digs thrown in. I'm keeping well out of it.

House move progressing well. Hoping to exchange in two weeks 🤞🏻

[quote Heysiriyouknob]@CervixHaver thank you!

They are speaking again now. With a lot of digs thrown in. I'm keeping well out of it.

House move progressing well. Hoping to exchange in two weeks 🤞🏻[/quote]
Sorry to reprieve a zombie thread, but OP if you see this please update on how it turned out!