Myself and 3 friends recently moved into a rented property and unfortunately instantly discovered some major issues with it.
The plumbing in the kitchen is in a really bad way (floor flooding from normal use of appliances/sink, sink not draining etc).
Two of the four hobs of the cooker don't work.
The cistern of the upstairs toilet is broken and as a result won't flush and is constantly making noise from the refilling mechanism.
The electric shower in the on suite bathroom is extremely temperamental and rarely has hot water.
The seal on the fridge door is broken to the extent that the temperature never really gets cold enough.
There are more issues but these are the most major.
Now, we contacted our LL about the issues, but unfortunately, due to the Christmas period, LL was on holidays and told us they would be sorted out when LL got back (which would have been 10 days from the time LL was informed)
In the mean time, the plumbing situation got so bad that we had to ring an emergency plumber.
The first plumber did an initial inspection, made some minor changes and left telling us it was fixed.
Issue kept happening, rang a different plumber, this time we were told there were serious issues and but that he didn't have time to fix it.
The third plumber spent ~2 hours fixing the issue, only for it to issue to start happening again.
Now the LL is back soon, and we've decided basically to not use the kitchen until the LL's return (~4 days) as we are unsure as to the extent of the potential cost properly fixing the issue would incur.
Now my question is, when we do talk to the LL, are we entitled to ask for ~1 month's rent compensation as the inconvenience of calling out plumbers, waiting for plumbers to arrive, not being able to use kitchen/appliances, general inconvenience of other issues stated above, we believe warrants the compensation of such an amount.
The plumbing in the kitchen is in a really bad way (floor flooding from normal use of appliances/sink, sink not draining etc).
Two of the four hobs of the cooker don't work.
The cistern of the upstairs toilet is broken and as a result won't flush and is constantly making noise from the refilling mechanism.
The electric shower in the on suite bathroom is extremely temperamental and rarely has hot water.
The seal on the fridge door is broken to the extent that the temperature never really gets cold enough.
There are more issues but these are the most major.
Now, we contacted our LL about the issues, but unfortunately, due to the Christmas period, LL was on holidays and told us they would be sorted out when LL got back (which would have been 10 days from the time LL was informed)
In the mean time, the plumbing situation got so bad that we had to ring an emergency plumber.
The first plumber did an initial inspection, made some minor changes and left telling us it was fixed.
Issue kept happening, rang a different plumber, this time we were told there were serious issues and but that he didn't have time to fix it.
The third plumber spent ~2 hours fixing the issue, only for it to issue to start happening again.
Now the LL is back soon, and we've decided basically to not use the kitchen until the LL's return (~4 days) as we are unsure as to the extent of the potential cost properly fixing the issue would incur.
Now my question is, when we do talk to the LL, are we entitled to ask for ~1 month's rent compensation as the inconvenience of calling out plumbers, waiting for plumbers to arrive, not being able to use kitchen/appliances, general inconvenience of other issues stated above, we believe warrants the compensation of such an amount.