Advice for living without hot water

[HunterofStars]

I moved house a month ago and the boiler has never worked properly since I moved in. I now have to wait a week for my LL to send someone to look at my boiler and even then there's no guarantee I'll have hot water again by next week. So I'm looking for ways to cope with no hot water. All suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA.

Where we used to live we had a combi boiler which was great, but since moving to a house with an electric shower and an immersion heater our electric bill went through the roof - and the immersion heater only goes on about 3 times a year.

We wash up in cold water. It's fine. If the dishes are really greasy we boil a kettle. You can wash yourself with a couple of bowls of warm water from the kettle. Hair is trickier but not undoable.

And try and negotiate a reduction in rent to cover extra costs - if you're heating or accessing hot water in other ways it does cost.

I hope it gets sorted tomorrow!

Boiling kettles is the best way in the meantime. I have lived in Africa with very random access to hot water sometimes!
I used to bath all the DC in a plastic baby bath (even age 6!) and wash my hair in that too.
I had multiple cheap kettles to save time as well .

Has it been fixed OP?

To the person who said to withhold rent.... never withold rent. It puts you in a very weak position legally and could see you evicted.
Yes the landlord should get it sorted quickly.... but that is a different matter to withholding rent.... really bad advice.. .. check with Shelter on that one if you don't believe me.
OP, I hope this is sorted quickly for you.... you would think a housing association would be able to organise it faster than a private landlord .... but still it can be a few days .... good luck

Instead of a shower use a bowl or bucket and a jug. Use kettle to heat water and mix with cold to get the right temperature. Place in bath, stand in there yourself, use the jug to pour water over yourself, wash as usual, then use the rest of the water to rinse off the shower gel. This works as well as a shower. You can do the same for washing hair (lean head over bath) but if you have long thick hair you might need 2 buckets of water.

As someone with long thick hair who tried that once it doesnt quite work effing When bent over the bath long hair draped up and over your head.......it doubles its thickness making it impossible to rinse it properly. I remember talking about it with my hairdresser who wasnt surprised it didnt work for me the one time i tried it.

OP if you have an electric shower then you have hot water. If you want a bath, fill it by unscrewing the shower head and leaving the hose in the bath.

Not having hot water at a sink is not an emergency. As OP has heating and a source to heat water they are not a priority.

I worked for housing in the past and a week is a good and reasonable time frame to fix an electric water heater (unless OP has a child under 2 in the property).

Helena I often wash my hair over the bath and mine is long and thick. It works fine for me. I've even done it that way for a dye job.
It is tricky to get the front bit rinsed but I lift my head up and pour the water at an angle.