To sue the arse off my landlord

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TWO years we've been asking him to replace the loose stair carpet. All requests logged through the agents. He came round and ummed and ahhed. Hit it back on the carpet rail with a hammer despite me telling him we do that everyday and it just comes back off again. Logged at all inspections.

I've tried fixing it numerous times. It's so frayed around the edge it won't attach. I've tried with carpet glue, it still won't stay out for more than a few days.

The carpet is at the top of the stairs, if you aren't careful and step on the edge of the top stair the whole carpet comes with you.

DD stepped on the edge yesterday and went flying down the stairs (along with the fucking carpet). Possible fractured coccyx (they weren't sure) in so much pain, will miss her netball tournament and a dance competition. Hurts when she goes to the loo for a poo, sits down for too long, can't walk to the bus for school.

I am bloody furious and feel like suing the tight bastard. I don't bloody care if he evicts us!

You don't leave an accident waiting to happen in place just because you think someone else should sort it?

She didn't. She tried to make any repairs she could within the terms of her lease.

And it's not a question of 'thinking someone else should sort it', it was probably forbidden under the terms of the lease and would put her at risk of eviction.

Still laughing at "my dad is an insurance surveyor.... Very high up." What has this ridiculous comment got to do with the thread? Ignore RougeSeas op

Another poster above suggested removing the carpet completely and then replacing when leaving...

Yes, I think you should look at compensation. The carpet is the landlord's responsibility to replace. You have plenty of evidence to say you repeatedly asked for it to be fixed.

My landlord does love me actually probably because i don't threaten to sue him because I'm not a moron that leaves a dangerous carpet in situ thus causing my daughter to seriously injure herself.

No but you're pretty fucking clueless about landlords' responsibilities and what tenants are liable for. I bet your landlord loves you, you must be a total cash cow for him/her.

Well if op sues, the landlord will have to accept responsibility for his lack of common sense yes.

They have a contract, a tenancy agreement, part of that will be that the LL must ensure the house and contents he is responsible for are safe. He has breached this contract, OP has not breached her end of the contract by not doing the job herself.

motherfucker I was pointing out i know a lot about this stuff.

I bet you're the kind of person who would drive into the back of someone and claim it's their fault you didn't hit the breaks in time

The complete irony of this thread is hilarious

Alors you are forgetting that Rouge knows a lot about this stuff.

motherfucker I was pointing out i know a lot about this stuff

Yep. Mind blowing irony on this thread, just keeps on giving.

The only hilarious one is you!

You literally have no knowledge at all in this department. Seriously. None.

IT. IS. NOT. THE. TENANTS. RESPONSIBILITY. TO. FIX. SHIT.

That's what we pay the (fucking extortionate) rent for

Ginmakesitallok

Channelling judge rinder - he'd say that yes your landlord was in the wrong, but that you were contributorily negligent as you knew the carpet was dangerous and still allowed your child unsupervised access to it.

I am not the only person who thinks this was..

Well my dad's a polylingual pharmaceutical translator. Doesn't mean I speak any foreign languages or know anything about drugs. Rouge half of what you are posting is simply not true.

I bet you're the kind of person who would drive into the back of someone and claim it's their fault you didn't hit the breaks in time how does anything I have said point to this RougeSeas?

Whatevs...

I'm sure that ops daughter understands her mummy leaving a dangerous carpet in place in the home for TWO YEARS now she has to suffer lots of pain..

I stand corrected because it's not ops responsibility to keep her safe and ensure the house is safe, I'm sure she did absolutely everything by phoning citizens advice, environmental health, the estate agents every single day because she was terrified about this accident waiting to happen.

The multi million pound payout will take away the pain I'm sure.

Rouge, if one weren't as charitable as Barbarian one might think you were a mean-spirited goady fucker who was intentionally ignoring the OP's daily efforts to keep the carpet as safe as possible for her family.

Yes, I'm sure the courts would deem anything less than calling CAB, environmental health and the estate agents every single day for 2 years as negligent.

so the landlord has been told to replace the carpet, which is made-to-measure and worthless outside his home, but it's the OP's fault he hasn't done so ?

fuck off.

Well, exactly donttouch in that case i am in total agreement.. Go forth and sue the fucker.

Oh Op ignore the deliberately goady posts on this.

I am just agreeing with everyone, because if someone doesn't agree and then voices it they are attacked.. So I'm agreeing.

Public forum, free to give opinions unless they are different to the majority

Rouge you are completely missing the point. Even if it is true that the OP should have done something, that does not in any way lessen the landlord's legal culpability.

But you've had a judge and a defence solicitor tell you that you're wrong, Rogue.

It's nothing to do with holding the minority viewpoint; on this point you are firmly in the wrong!