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bugsychick
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Currently renting a property and am just wondering who is responsible for the cleaning of the chimney ? Any ideas ? Is it the tenant or the landlord?
As you don't own or insure the property (apart perhaps from your own contents insurance) I can't see how you could be held to be responsible. Trades like roofers, sweeps, steeple-jacks need their own insurance. If you need peace of mind, ask for the details when they show up and take a copy of the cert.... I would have to get someone to do it as I'm not qualified ! If they happened to fall and hurt themselves would I be responsible?
I paid for someone to come in to clean my tenant's chimney - would have thought that's a LL responsibility, like getting the boiler serviced.
+1As a landlord this would be something I would expect to pay for. As mentioned, it is effectively a necessary safety maintenance, much like boiler servicing etc