We rent, have been here for nearly 2 years. Never had problems with rent or the landlords personally.
However, I'm so sick of the agents instructing crap quality repair work.
We had a leak coming from the bathroom, through the floor and into the kitchen. I first told the agents about it in August 2017 at which point it wasnt too bad. They finally got someone out to fix it in 2018!!! Everything was on email and the landlords got involved in the end because I contacted them directly.
The first repair job didn't work so in May 2018 they instructed someone to replace the bath.
This Workman was a young lad who replaced the bath on his own. He was lovely enough but to be honest the job was just utter crap.
The seal came off from around the bath within a week and now the seal trom the sides of the bath panels have started to come away too.
The skirting around the bottom of the bath covering the gap between it and the floor tiles is just two pieces of sheered off plastic.
There is silicone all over the tiles.
He's removed a fixed wall cabinet and put it on lower down so the original fixings are just sitting above it looking messy.
I took pictures and I told the agent so they can't say it was us when we leave but they didn't respond and have done inspection's since and don't seem to care.
Fast forward to now, there's been a damp smell coming from the kitchen for quite some time and we've not been able to work out from where. After taking a look, DP announced that the floorboards under the bath are completely rotten due to the leak which is causing the smell.
I know it's all to save money for the landlord but I'm so sick of these substandard repair jobs. It isn't the first time they've instructed a repair and the result has been just shoddy workmanship.
We pay good money to live here. It's a nice house and we enjoy it here but I'm so sick to death of having to deal with these agents. And frankly, it may not be my house, but it's my home and I can't be arsed with more people traipsing through it to fix the latest bodge job. I just don't trust the people they send out and I'm terrified of losing our deposit as a result of it. I'm trying to document/photograph everything but worry about missing something.
Is this the done thing in letting agencies?!