To be pissed off with my tenants changing plugs on my appliances

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They aren't electricians. Am I legally responsible for their stupidity if they electrocute themselves? (Gawd forbid!) They did not contact me about any maintained problem.

If there is a problem with an electrical appliance I would rather they told me so I can get someone with half a brain to fix. I have a condensing tumble dryer in the flat. They moved out the dryer and complained it has water in it. Duh! It's a condensing tumble dryer and you are expected to empty the bottle. There are instructions about all appliances. For some stupid reason they decided to change to plug and now they have tripped the electrics.

Nope. Not a spokesperson for OP, just as you aren't for the tenants (are you?).

But your posts don't take in any further info on the thread. So you are asking a question that misses the legal issue, the responsibilities of the tenant, in what seems like a determined effort to insist the OP is wrong.

It is a simple thing. Tenant has an issue with a fixture/fitting, they contact the LL. The LL then must deal with it.

That is how it should work. Plenty here moan that LLs do fuck all for their money but it seems, that if a tenant acts badly some here simply cannot conceive that they should take responsibility for it, it simply must be the LL in the wrong.

You are, in my opinion, hectoring the OP, and it makes you seem a tad obssessed!

This is very simple blanche.

OP says " If you do not inform a landlord about a maintaince issue to can't complain when the issue is not fixed"

I'm asking if her tenants did this.

Not sure why you are discussing something else with me.

I am a tenant, but in this instance, the OP, the landlord, is completely right. I have insurance on the contents of my rental property, but not over the electrical items supplied by the landlord for which they have their own insurance. They have to have them be safe- and if other people mess about with them, then they are breaking the terms of that insurance/may not be able to claim. Stripping the plug back off an integrally wired appliance which is 10 years old is a completely stupid thing to do and if it then burned the house down, it may be the insurance would be invalidated (or not, it's unclear, but that's why you shouldn't do it).

I don't know why the OP is getting a hard time here, the best thing about being a renter is that when the electrics blow, you tell the landlord and they have to fix it.

Increasingly landlords are providing fewer appliances for this reason, ours doesn't provide a washing machine now, and also rental insurance increasingly specifies that you need to have tested your appliances- we cannot use unPAT-tested heaters in our house, for example, without invalidating the insurance.

This is not a moral issue, or one about competence, it's about legal responsibility in the light of insurance!