To ask to be temporarily rehoused whilst new kitchen installed?

[SENwoes]

I will preface this by saying I KNOW I’m very lucky to have a HA house, and I KNOW I’m very lucky to be getting a brand new kitchen for free.

So as above, I have work commencing on 22nd January to rip out the old kitchen and replace it. I don’t have a choice in this, according to the documents, I am unable to say no it’s fine, I’ll keep the old one. I’ve been told the works will take 2 weeks, as it also involves taking up the tiled floor and replacing it with lino.

It’s just dawning on me what a nightmare this will be. I have to completely empty the kitchen obviously, but there’s not really anywhere to put the stuff, it’s a very small house (just living room leading to kitchen/diner downstairs). The big appliances will go outside in the back yard apparently, but everything else will have to be boxed up and kept somewhere. I’ll have no cooking or washing up facilities, and no way of washing or drying clothes.

That’s all pretty standard I know, but my main concern is that I have a disability (CFS) and also both DC are diagnosed with ASD and currently in the house all the time as neither in education. We will essentially be trapped in our bedrooms for 2 weeks as we won’t be able to move in the front room as realistically that’s the only place everything from the kitchen can go. I need to rest…a lot, and the works will be noisy, which will also affect both DC as they struggle badly with loud noises and not being in a calm environment. They’ll also struggle with a team of workmen being in their space for 2 weeks, They both have completely different food aversions and neither of their limited range of foods is conducive to being able to batch cook and set the microwave up somewhere. Realistically it will mean a lot of eating out, but that’s not really affordable for 2 weeks.

Has anyone been in a similar situation and WIBU to ask the HA if there’s anything that could be done to move us while the works are going on? The only family member I could stay with is my DM but she’s a long way away and having works done on her own house which means she doesn’t have a functioning bathroom, so that’s not ideal really.

No, she wants YOU personally to pay for it.

Have you read the thread or even OP's posts?

I don’t think she personally asked @Hopelesscase32 to pay for it?
Hopeless can you clarify?

I know, I was being facetious.
It has a 'taxpayers are paying for you, so lump it' tone.

On a par with 'you're lucky to get what you're given at the Foodbank' posts.

It's sad.

@Hopelesscase32 she actually doesn't want a new kitchen at all.
Did you even read the thread?

I remember this being done to our house when I was a teenager my aunty had to help us create a tiny kitchen in the corner of the living room while the council spent I don’t how long dragging out redoing the kitchen and it was a load of shit by the time they finished they didn’t even bother to use kitchen and bathroom paint they used normal paint and the condensation from cooking and the kettle made all the paint peel off the walls. They created a nightmare and left us with a nightmare. But they never offered to house us temporarily even though both my parents are disabled and I have autism we where all just made to live with the disruption while they took their sweet time over half arsing the kitchen.

Ah you were being ironic?

I was going to say no taxpayer is funding OP’s kitchen as HA’s run themselves and are not supported by taxpayers

The Op doesn't actually want the " brand new" kitchen
And why would she pay for a,( frankly shoddy mess ) kitchen in a house she doesn't own??

She was being facetious. She already told you she was being facetious. It's not 'ironic' because 'ironic' means something else completely.

Do you usually try to cause arguments in empty rooms?

WTH - have you had your nap today?

have I done something to upset you?! I feel like you are causing an argument. Have I even engaged with you ever before? What a weird post.

No @CharlotteBog was being ironic in a facetious way - hence her comment about foodbanks. Or did you think she was actually serious about this comment?!

I'm not getting sidelined into any strange discussion with you.

I understood the comment exactly as it was intended, it was very clearly intended as a facetious aside. You incorrectly introduced the concept of irony because you obv don't understand what 'ironic' means and despite the fact the poster had already stated her intention was 'facetious'.

Therefore, you seem like someone who can't let it lie and here again you also can't let it lie. I will not respond to anything further you post as I don't have that issue and I suspect you have comprehension issues and / or enjoy arguing.

Having read op's posts and understanding a little of her situation, I suspect the Travelodge thing was an initial knee-jerk "we're never going to be able to cope with that here, need to go somewhere" sort of thing, rather than an actual concrete plan. I don't want to speak for her obviously but that would have been my reaction.

I really don't think it's that @SENwoes doesn't want to make it work, it's that she's not sure if/how she can.

You could ask for temporary accommodation and you may be granted. However, I think you are completely naive about what temp accommodation looks like. Where I am you would get a small room that fits a double bed and a single bed, so one of your children would be sleeping on the floor. You would have shared bathroom and kitchen facilities with numerous other people. There would likely be noise from the other rooms 24hrs a day. I can't see how that would be preferable to just spending the two weeks in your bedrooms at home?

You’re getting a brand-new kitchen for free, and you have the audacity to moan?

Hundreds of comments in and you think you're the first to throw in that pearl of wisdom? Learn to read.

Lol! Do you expect me to have gone and read all 20 pages of this thread?

@mrsclaus1984 if you don't want to read 20 pages fine - but don't put a stupid comment like you did.

Oh dear, it’s called an opinion, are you new to the Internet?

Yet you felt you needed to have your say

Obviously. It’s a forum.

Well said!!

Hi op, I’ve only read your comments and little a bit of the thread so forgive me if this has been mentioned, but you should be able to ask the HA not to go ahead with the works, even if it’s part of their cyclical maintenance programme (which I assume it is as you haven’t requested them). My mum is in a HA property, and had a new kitchen she didn’t want, and that turned out to be a lot worse than the old one (cyclical maintenance replacing 30 year old but solid kitchen with something new but shoddy). So when they said they wanted to do the bathroom she said no, and managed to get it agreed with them in writing that they wouldn’t. It does mean she’s now liable for anything that goes wrong with the bathroom, but she recons it’s worth it. Interestingly her bathroom is still fine, whilst two of her neighbours (who all had theirs replaced early last year) have already had problems with theirs. Might be worth a go? The fact that they are proposing the replacement of solid tiles with Lino indicates you’ll probably get something lower standard than you’ve got now!

@mrsclaus1984 well your opinion can be filled under "clueless and rude".

It’s an opinion which is different to your own. Shock horror…

Again the Op is a tenant so tenants dont pay for refurbishment, s landlords do
And I really wish I could post a picture of my housing association kitchen that I got " Brand new four years ago for all those jealous posters
Living the dream I'm not with my shoddy,cheap badly installed kitchen.

@mrsclaus1984 whatever 🙄