How soon is too soon

[Motherwell91]

Moved into property this Saturday and I've already rang landlord as light were flickering. Now the sink has a leak... We've tried mending ourselves but clearly needs new piping. I'm worried that he'll think I'm complaining to much ..and will not think were good tenants.

I'm properly over thinking it. I've never lived in such a nice property and am really worried somthing is going to go wrong and they won't want us to stay.
wow now that I've wrote it down it really does spud pathetic

our previous landlord would never fix anything so never asked him. Should I not mention it straight or way or best to say.

Would love to here from actual landlords aswell

Can you afford to pay to get it fixed yourself?
If you can then why not ring to ask whether he wants you to organise it or whether he has a regular plumber he usesaid for his insurance purposes..

Just tell him you don't want to be a nuisance but that you just wanted to check ...and tell him you are otherwise delighted with the property..

OMG... Think of yourself as your landlord's client. You're paying them money and they need to provide you with service that is good enough.

I think it's better to contact them ASAP. For example, if you leave a leaky tap, the water penetration could cause damage.

As a landlady of nice properties, I like to nip things in the bud. Occasionally, I have been annoyed with tenants but I'd rather they call one time too many then leave things to rot.

You could try tightening the lightbulb to see if the flickering stops, or the bulb could be on the way out. Presumably you can cope with changing a bulb?
Why does the sink need new piping? Does a valve need tightening? Have you identified where exactly the leak is coming from?

I'm both a landlord and tenant. As a tenant, I would be checking all the basics out before ringing the landlord, and as a landlord, I would have ensured that everything was OK before I handed the property over, so would be a bit worried that you either couldn't manage basic maintenance, like changing lightbulb, and that you would call me for unnecessary reasons.

If you've just moved in, then why not give them a list of what's wrong that you have noticed?

As a landlord, I'm more surprised if I don't hear from new tenants in the first few days. There's usually something that I don't notice about the property because I'm not living there/ they're not used to/ previous tenants didn't report. A water leak would need reporting asap to avoid damage. By getting maintenance jobs done promptly from the start it shows that if the tenant takes responsibility for reporting issues promptly we can both keep the property in good repair ( can't fix what we don't know about).

Flickering was probably ye wrong word they go completely off then back on in the space of a couple of seconds. We've checked the whole sink and tightened it up at every possible area. You can physically see a small crack in the pipe plastic ubend. Guess I'm guess I'm just over thinking. I will inform him today