To expect my landlord to fix my toilet before Monday?

[Overthinkings]

Tuesday night my toilet started leaking. Landlord came over that night to inspect and said he’d hopefully have someone out the next day (Wednesday). He turned the pipe leading to the cistern off, the toilet is still usable but having to fill it with a bucket after each flush. Yesterday he messaged to say he couldn’t get his usual plumber round mine til today. The plumber has just been and said he can do it but not til Monday - and that was only a ‘hopefully’, by which time it’ll be nearly a week. Is it unreasonable if I text my landlord and say I need this sorting sooner? I’ve left the lid off the cistern so I can fill it easier, it’s just a pain in the arse especially with a 13yo DC also in the house... I’m privately renting. Do I pester or just leave it?

if you were a council/housing association tenant - you would, believe me - be waiting for a lot longer (from experience with family member in social housing)

I've just looked. There are 5 plumbers within 30 miles of me.

3 of them seem to have a waiting list, one is on holiday and the other might be available, I suppose... but you can't check prices, you get taken to a chat line thingy... or have to have a policy!

@chillpizza my landlord is exactly the same. Has a plumber he has always used who drags his feet and tries to get into endless conversations presumably to up his hours for the job. He also has a handyman who bodges everything he does, but has worked for him for years. My landlord owns about 10 properties so perhaps that’s why he sticks to what he knows.

I’ve just remembered, when we didn’t have a flushing toilet for 4 weeks he told me his plumber was on holiday. Of course when the plumber did arrive and I asked if he’s had a nice holiday - he hadn’t been on one. All very odd. We pay £1k per month and I know the landlord has owned this house for almost 50 years so I assume it is now mortgage free. He’s just fricking tight!

Where do you al live with so few plumbers? A quick google popped up over 30 in my area without going to yellowpages/check a trade. A few of which promise 1hr response times.

And I know lots of landlords who have very good plumber and electrician, etc on tap who would still need a few days to get work done, sometimes.

My point being the law is one thing, individual stories another. You can't generalise like that and be accurate!

OPs LL has acted quickly and reasonably.

mary my landlord is also an investor landlord. I don’t think they know half the stuff that goes on when they give over the properties to be ran by agents. My old Landlord no agent was hot as anything even used people we recommend but he was a small landlord not loads of properties.

Rurally! And not in the South East.

There are loads who promise a 1 hour response. But they aren't really local, they are national clearing houses. Nobody in their right mind would use one of those if they had any choice!

Ah that explains it, we have tons here and some National as said that offer the 1hr response.

@chillipizza I've rented before and my OH did until very recently. What you don't seem to understand you can get someone who claims to be a plumber in even as an emergency call out and they can really screw up the work. My OH's LL did this.

I own my property and I couldn't get the part I needed for a broken toilet for a week. I had to use a bucket to flush. Pissed me off but what can you do.

It would be totally different matter if you couldn't use toilet at all.
Like this it's still usable so it's not an emergency. Good plumbers are few and far between. As with any tradesman.

Forgive me for this, but you have genuinely made me laugh now and I really needed that (thanks!) with not realising you can pour bucket in pan directly. I don't mean anything bad. People rarely see the easiest solution straight away.