Gah. I have posted about this before.
My oven is STILL broken in my rented house. The heating is rubbish - we are having to sleep downstairs as our bedroom is too cold. Luckily the kids room is downstairs anyway.
Oven has been broken now for nigh on three months. It was disconnected by an emergency gasman as the carbon monoxide alarm was going off.
We are using a bedsit oven, which is ridiculous sat on top of the huge range oven.
We rent through an agent, but they say they are having trouble getting in touch with the landlord as they live abroad. We had one visit from the menders who said it has never been properly serviced (they were covered in soot from just looking) and it needs a hole putting in the wall. That was about three weeks ago and we have heard nothing since.
We have lived here for 18 months, this is the second time the oven has broken.
This is bloody stupid. Any other service wouldn't dare do this to a customer, yet a landlord somehow gets away with it.
Shelters website says that, if we withold rent, the landlord is likely to simply serve notice. They only need to give two months and don't need a reason.
ARGH!