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Theoverthinkingqueen · 25/11/2022 20:26

Name changed as might be too revealing

i am posting here for advice really and traffic as I have searched online and I am finding nothing (any landlords that see this would be a bonus)

so I am moving house soon there is a floor board under my carpet on my landing that has became loose and subsequently fell under the floor boards. Last inspection I did tell my landlord about it among other things and he sort of just shrugged it off and in a roundabout way asked me to get it fixed. I genuinely haven’t had the money to have it fixed myself.

bit of a back story so not to drip feed, before I moved in I took the house on knowing I had to decorate as it was bare plaster and carpet the upstairs and stairs as there was none down. A couple of weeks before moving in he had still quite a bit of furniture left in here he asked me to sell for him and get rid of so I could move in. This was my first time private renting so I stupidly went along with it. During the process he did mention a couple of times he was getting a couple of floor boards fixed upstairs one on the landing and one in the main bedroom. I don’t want to assume he didn’t but now this has happened.

obviously like I have said I am moving out in a few weeks and the new tenant has purchased the carpets off me as I would of taken them with me so now I don’t know if I am expected to pull the carpet up fix the floor board and have the c/m carpet out back down again??

side note my tenancy agreement wasn’t like a normal agreement you would normally get it was a paragraph written out by himself and printed out, with nothing like this detailed.

any advice would be great thank you for reading

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Theoverthinkingqueen · 25/11/2022 21:23

Bumped up incase been missed

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Cluelessdiyer · 25/11/2022 21:27

Floorboards not your responsibility obviously

did he register your deposit?

bwr he didn’t - if so you’re in luck! Call shelter and/or citizens advice for advice

and educate yourself about yours rights - you should have entered jnto such an arrangement!

Theoverthinkingqueen · 25/11/2022 21:32

Cluelessdiyer · 25/11/2022 21:27

Floorboards not your responsibility obviously

did he register your deposit?

bwr he didn’t - if so you’re in luck! Call shelter and/or citizens advice for advice

and educate yourself about yours rights - you should have entered jnto such an arrangement!

Thank you for your reply, I have read through the shelter website, I haven’t actually contacted them though so I will do this.

I did find that the building was his responsibility but was just with him asking me to fix it in a round about way that he may withhold the deposit because I hadn’t.

thanks again

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Cluelessdiyer · 25/11/2022 21:34

Has he given you info on the deposit and where it’s registered?

Theoverthinkingqueen · 25/11/2022 21:37

Cluelessdiyer · 25/11/2022 21:34

Has he given you info on the deposit and where it’s registered?

Yes he gave me the information when I moved in and told me when I gave him my notice. I also took photos band videos of the house before I moved in and decorated and also the same once I had decorated

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