What can someone actually demand of a landlord? Or in my case, landlady? There's a quite terrible leak in the bathroom, which, if the showerhead should find itself pointing the wrong way, can induce a torrent of water into the lounge-dining room beneath, but certainly takes in water whenever I have a shower. Now the landlady has suggested the quite insane idea of simply placing a large piece of clear perspex over the back of the shower, so that you can "still see the colour" of the tiling, that colour being genuine 80s avocado, no less, whilst she conveniently forgets the black mould that would spring up behind it, and shortly look like a not-sexy H. R. Geiger drawing. However, even my derranged, broken, barely functional brain knows that a won't do, even though it might well stop the immediate leaking. So is that all she has to do, what someone with a half-rational mind would not call "the bare minimum"? For what it's worth she lives in the way-down bit of the country and I'm in the quite-far-up bit.
I'm not entirely sure if this qualifies as "economics", but it seemed the best fit overall. Further apologies if this is barely sensible, but I'm mad.
In the UK your landlord is legally required to give you a safe, functional and working house and pay for ALL the repairs for your house. However there are sketchy landlords who refuse to do this and fulfil their legal requirements.
You can politely ask, but if you apply pressure by insisting angrily or lengthy, or even worse, reporting them to the council which regulates them, your landlord could and most likely will retaliate by giving you a revenge eviction. The government banned no fault evictions in 2019 under Theresa May being in power in an attempt to tackle revenge evictions, but just because it's illegal doesn't stop it from happening.
In the UK an eviction is done via a Section 21 that gives you 6 months notice to leave the property. Given that you have a sketchy landlord who is breaking the law and is a cheapskate, your landlord already lacks morals, so I recommend you don't apply pressure or you'll be given an illegal eviction.
>>8624 To add to this, water damage like this can be incredibly destructive to a building if it occurs long term, never mind the mould problem that would spread to the joists behind the clearly no longer water proof wet cell. So on top of being an irresponsible landlady, they also clearly do not care about the longevity of their investment or sustainability of their asset. Given such behaviour, you can hopefully imagine how little they'll care about you.
