No hot water for 6 WHOLE WEEKS!!!!! What are we going to do???

[TinselgalacticWalrus]

We live in a rented house, which we pay through the nose for. We chase the landlord daily to get it fixed, but to no avail. We have thought about witholding our rent, but we are a)scared shiutless of our landlord, who is huge and has a reputation for talking with his fists, and b) we can't afford to pay out nearly 2 grand in deposits for somewhere else if he kicks us out for non payment of rent.

I am sick to daeth of having cold showers in the winter. It's getting me down so much. We are current;ly having to boil kettles for the DSs bath, which is a right PITA.

What can we do?????

We have been waiting for it to be sorted since the very beginning of Nov.

This is the 5th time it has broken down since August.

I'm hoping it won't come to that Drac, but it's a possibility.

Even then though, we'll have to wait until after the new year as DP won;t get paid until then, and all our bill etc ahve gone out this month

You do have to go through all sorts of procedures before you can withhold rent in lieu of repair (ie. letter I've mentioned below) - if you don't do it properly you could be evicted very quickly. Please take legal advice (cab) before doing so and risking all.

thanks Lizs. I suspected that to be the case. It will be a last resort