Rent rebate for dangerous boiler?

[turquoise]

My boiler broke down on the saturday before christmas. I couldn't get anyone out until the wedensday to look at it, and the man who came said it's unsafe and not to use it till a backplate has been fitted.
It is serviced regularly by a corgi agent, (the emergency guy was also corgi, but a different company) so it's not really the landlord's fault that we've been living with a potentially lethal boiler(carbon monoxide).
However, we've been without heat or hot water the whole of christmas/NY - do you reckon I'm entitled to a rent rebate?

possibly, your Landlord is obliged to provide you with a source of heat and a source of hot water. So it would depend on whether there was other heating or hot water in the flat.

Well they will probably argue not, but once when we rented a house the same thing happened and we were without heating and hot water for a week.

I rang the landlord up and told him I was deducting a full weeks rent. He argued that I couldn't do it as it was only the heating and hot water that we couldn't use not the whole house.

I went into full rant mode and asked him if he'd ever had to try and clean up a child covered in sick without having hot water, or had to sit and freeze. I said I would be deducting the full rent, for the lack of services and inconvieniance and if he wanted to try and do anything about it, fine but that i suggested not.

He agreed in the end

There is sme act or other which states about a property being fit to live and stuff like that. Can't remember the exact details now, but did mention it to my landlord mid rant.

Have just bought a CO detector - though haven't used the boiler since it was declared unsafe.
We have a couple of gas fires, but no alternative hot water - so worth a try!
Thanks for replies.

Thanks Nutty, will rant too

Has he been getting gas checks every year ?
You could ask for a rent rebate but don't be surprised if your notice arrives in the next post.