LL or Tenants responsibility

[birdladyfromhomealone]

Hi, could you settle a question please,
looking for opinions from both LL or tenants or any legal bod,
1, blocked drain on outside of property, a few drains feed into this, shower, washer/dishwasher, sinks. never been blocked before in 5 years. who pays dynarod, LL or tenant?
2, Lino over floorboards in dining room, office chair with three wheels makes holes in lino due to unlevel floorboard,
3, leaking shower head from taps, over bath , not tiled, LL says dont use shower just as a hand held shower hose, use walk in shower, tenant continues to shower with hose, bathroom floor falls through into kitchen below.
4, LL agree to let tenant paint garden fences seagreen as long as it is oil based. Tentant paints fences baby blue with garden paint, water based.

French with Tennant. The rest ll unless the shower was out of order less than aobth and was imminently to be fixed.

1 is tenant. If drains are faulty landlord to fix, but it is usually confusion between bin and drain.
2 is landlord. Fix floor.
3 is landlord providing crap property. No tiles above bath? I'm afraid you have to make properties robust.
4 don't let tenants paint! You can deduct from deposit on the presumably imminent end of tenancy.

Drainage is the landlord unless they can prove the tenant did something unreasonable (like flushing a nappy down the loo) to cause the blockage.

The Lino wasn't fit for purpose if laid on an uneven floorboard so I think that's the landlord.

Shower over bath - it depends. It is was mounted on the wall then it is the landlords fault for not fixing the problem (assuming the tenant informed the landlord it was leaking). If it was one of those shower heads which sits on the taps (i.e. not designed for a stand-up shower) then its the tenant's fault for not using the shower head for its designed purpose.

The last one is the tenant - making permanent changes which haven't been agreed is unreasonable.

1: A tenant once tried to get me to pay for a blocked drain, due to the enormous dump he had done. as the toilet had been working until the point he had the dump, I declined.

It depends why it was blocked - if it is due to the tenant, then it is their fault.

2: Even on perfectly level floorboards, the wheeled chairs can cause damage, as a different tenant did t my laminate in the study. It was gouged from the chair. Because it the floor was over 8 years old, even though it was in perfect condition, I got £40 out of the deposit to pay for it. I ensure that there is a substantial rug under the wheeled office chairs in my rental. In both the houses we have rented, there have been no marks due to wheeled chairs, as there have been rugs used.

3: Insurance, and have the shower attachment used from the bath. If there is a walk in shower, then the tenant has ignored instructions.

4: Tenant.