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Hi All,
Just discovered this forum today, what a wonderful resource. Has already been bookmarked and will no doubt be added to a list of many to view from time to time for the great information provided.
I have a slight query that I am hoping someone with far better legal expertise than me, may be able to advise on.
We have an issue with our Landlord over work that was done at the property. They were suppose to secure the services of someone to attend to undertake a minor outside maintenance job from the beginning of July.
We were advised this would be done but never happened. We prompted the LL again at the end of August and were assured this would be arranged.
On 3 separate occasions their contractor was suppose to attend to undertake the work over a number of weeks but this never happened.
As the issue was getting worse we advised the LL that there was a local company that could do the work should they need to find another contractor. We had used the local company for another job and found their services to be very satisfactory.
The LL asked us to check their availability and price and get back to them, which we did.
On a 4th occasion their contractor was due to attend and my partner messaged 26 minutes before this was due to happen asking to confirm whether this time they would turn up. She was instructed to contact the contractor we had provided information for and see if he instead would be available.
Ultimately we did. He arranged to come, they authorised it and transferred the money to my partner to pay the contractor.
The issue now is that the LL is not happy with the work done by the contractor and also claims their original one would have done it at half the price. There has been a lot of written dialogue back and forth but they are insistent that it was our contractor not theirs and that we have breached the TA by employing work to be done without it being authorised.
My thinking is that given that we have written confirmation of approving and requesting the services of said contractor, not to mention payment for said contractor coming from the LL, surely from a legal standpoint we were merely the intermediatory and that the contractor is theirs, not ours.
Sorry if I have made that more complex than it needs to be. This is such a minor issue in the greater scheme of things we are experiencing in this tenancy and new issues are appearing almost daily, from further leaks to major building work being required.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Just discovered this forum today, what a wonderful resource. Has already been bookmarked and will no doubt be added to a list of many to view from time to time for the great information provided.
I have a slight query that I am hoping someone with far better legal expertise than me, may be able to advise on.
We have an issue with our Landlord over work that was done at the property. They were suppose to secure the services of someone to attend to undertake a minor outside maintenance job from the beginning of July.
We were advised this would be done but never happened. We prompted the LL again at the end of August and were assured this would be arranged.
On 3 separate occasions their contractor was suppose to attend to undertake the work over a number of weeks but this never happened.
As the issue was getting worse we advised the LL that there was a local company that could do the work should they need to find another contractor. We had used the local company for another job and found their services to be very satisfactory.
The LL asked us to check their availability and price and get back to them, which we did.
On a 4th occasion their contractor was due to attend and my partner messaged 26 minutes before this was due to happen asking to confirm whether this time they would turn up. She was instructed to contact the contractor we had provided information for and see if he instead would be available.
Ultimately we did. He arranged to come, they authorised it and transferred the money to my partner to pay the contractor.
The issue now is that the LL is not happy with the work done by the contractor and also claims their original one would have done it at half the price. There has been a lot of written dialogue back and forth but they are insistent that it was our contractor not theirs and that we have breached the TA by employing work to be done without it being authorised.
My thinking is that given that we have written confirmation of approving and requesting the services of said contractor, not to mention payment for said contractor coming from the LL, surely from a legal standpoint we were merely the intermediatory and that the contractor is theirs, not ours.
Sorry if I have made that more complex than it needs to be. This is such a minor issue in the greater scheme of things we are experiencing in this tenancy and new issues are appearing almost daily, from further leaks to major building work being required.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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