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Social housing electrical check.

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JenniferBooth · 08/01/2024 13:08

Has anyone had this done and what did it entail.

Ive just received a letter saying that if i cancel the electric check with less than 24 hours notice this will be treated as failure to provide access to your property and legal action may follow. God forbid i have an emergency with my elderly mum or finally get the GP appointment to get my change in bowel habits looked into and i havent even booked the appointment yet. So there was no need for the bully boy tactics.

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MagnetCarHair · 26/06/2024 15:03

A full freezer will remain frozen for a couple of days so long as you aren't constantly opening it. The fridge will be fine too.

JenniferBooth · 26/06/2024 15:09

48 hours
Keep fridge and freezer doors closed as much as possibleYour fridge should stay cold for up to 4 hours. The food in your freezer should stay frozen for up to 48 hours in a full freezer (or 24 hours if it's half full), but these are estimates From Food Standards Agency

Estimates arent good enough

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Desecratedcoconut · 26/06/2024 15:20

Of course it's going to be fine for the amount of time that are there. Just don't stress yourself out over it. This isn't a big problem.

JenniferBooth · 26/06/2024 15:24

yes i forgot its one rule for the HA and another for the tenant. Its only an emergency when the HA says it is and can only wait five months when the HA says so.

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Desecratedcoconut · 26/06/2024 15:26

Okay, but how much are you willing to stress yourself out for something that is unchangeable, temporary and fairly painless?

JenniferBooth · 26/06/2024 15:32

@Desecratedcoconut its the last in a long line of things. I found being tested for bowel cancer recently less stressful than dealing with these cunts

I had a visit from my housing association income officer on Monday . Insisting we owe rent when we dont.

Get a load of this.

"OneSanctuary SAP is the name of a multi-million pound software system brought in by Sanctuary in 2016, designed for use by all areas of the business. It has been an unmitigated failure, and is a huge drawback of working for this company.
The issues caused by SAP are staggering and difficult to keep track of. Because SHA tried to implement SAP in a cost effective manner, they ended up vastly under-investing in critical elements. There is no tailoring of the generically presented system ('vanilla SAP'), which is an issue as social housing is a unique environment from a service delivery and CRM perspective, whereas vanilla SAP is more geared towards providing a solution for manufacturing industries. Thus, the system uses corporate nonsensical buzzwords and methods of handling accounts which absolutely do not reflect industry practice.
Here are just some examples of the more specific issues faced by staff:
No rent statements have been issued since it was implemented in August 2016, and if a resident insists on a rent statement it has to be prepared manually in a spreadsheet
The rent and calculations for accounts are hard to use, and often completely wrong. Mostly because the system was never designed to understand housing benefit payments, and this has a very convoluted workaround which a computer cannot make sense of.
SAP cannot interface with Local Authorities Housing benefit systems so payments are missed, lost or misattributed
Direct debits do not work reliably, and for a long time following the implementation did not work at all. Front line staff are now preferring standing order.
The front end system of SAP requires far more testing and money spent on it. Each customer account is a total mess of information, with no discernible way to separate notes left between differing departments, with information left by staff often going into the wrong account entirely. This needs looking at as from a compliance (DPA) point of view the breaches are serious
From a usability point of view, the view of a customers account within SAP CIC does not display appropriate information to the user (as stated before this is likely because the system was never designed to be used by a HA) and the user often has to go trawling around back end systems to find obviously relevant data (e.g tenancy start date, account balance, property type etc). This is a seemingly minor but considerable waste of resources"

And just like Horizon and the PO they will not admit that anything is wrong.

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JenniferBooth · 26/06/2024 15:36

TippedOverTheGravyJug · 26/06/2024 14:36

Fridge and freezer will be just fine turned off for a few hours. Mine was in heatwave 2 years ago for hours and hours due to a power cut.

We lost all the money on our PAYG electric meter during a power cut. It went blank and remained so after power came back on. Over £200 on there at the moment

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TippedOverTheGravyJug · 26/06/2024 15:42

JenniferBooth · 26/06/2024 14:59

In a flat in the middle of a block at the top?

Yes of course ours in in an outhouse. It's absolutely stifling and was fine. What would you do if there was an actual power cut all day.. it's fine as long as you dont keep opening it

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