Tenant - Water Meter Installation - Help Please
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Hi All,
I am a tenant with a 12 month tenancy agreement. The landlord refuses to allow me to request a water meter installation. The water charges are £400+ in this property without a meter. In my last property I used less than 60 cubic metres in the 12 months. This would cost around £150 where I am now.
The local provider has sent me the request papers and it states the landlord should sign if less than 6 months tenancy.
Could somebosy advise me whether this means I can get the meter installed anyway, despite the landlord refusal. I do not see why I should pay more than twice as much because he is a 'dinosaur'.
Many thanks in advance.
I am a tenant with a 12 month tenancy agreement. The landlord refuses to allow me to request a water meter installation. The water charges are £400+ in this property without a meter. In my last property I used less than 60 cubic metres in the 12 months. This would cost around £150 where I am now.
The local provider has sent me the request papers and it states the landlord should sign if less than 6 months tenancy.
Could somebosy advise me whether this means I can get the meter installed anyway, despite the landlord refusal. I do not see why I should pay more than twice as much because he is a 'dinosaur'.
Many thanks in advance.
Edited by Kevin VRs on Wednesday 26th May 10:42
Just to clear up a few things.
I rent because it is not practical to buy since my wife and I both work in the contract market and move around the country every 6-12 months based on the contracts we win.
We did not know until after signing the contract that there was no meter (nearly all prpoerties now have them), it is a question I have now added to the list.
The question I am asking is looking for a legal response, perhaps I did not word the original post very well, so here goes again:
Is there a legal requirement for a landlord to allow a water meter where there is a long-term contract (greater than 6 months). I ask this because it is implied in the correspondence from the water company. If so I would like a link to the law concerned.
Many thanks.
I rent because it is not practical to buy since my wife and I both work in the contract market and move around the country every 6-12 months based on the contracts we win.
We did not know until after signing the contract that there was no meter (nearly all prpoerties now have them), it is a question I have now added to the list.
The question I am asking is looking for a legal response, perhaps I did not word the original post very well, so here goes again:
Is there a legal requirement for a landlord to allow a water meter where there is a long-term contract (greater than 6 months). I ask this because it is implied in the correspondence from the water company. If so I would like a link to the law concerned.
Many thanks.
Thanks SuperlightR, that is the kind of answer I was looking for. As mentioned before the paperwork from the water company implied that if it was a longer term lease I did not need the landlord's permission.
I have now been in 7 rented properties in the last four years, only one other has not had a meter for the water. When I was in the Herts/Essex area the water company told me they always fitted a meter when a house was sold if it did not have one, they also implied this was a legal thing.
As regards TV etc, I always check what is available at the property.
I have now been in 7 rented properties in the last four years, only one other has not had a meter for the water. When I was in the Herts/Essex area the water company told me they always fitted a meter when a house was sold if it did not have one, they also implied this was a legal thing.
As regards TV etc, I always check what is available at the property.
JustinP1 said:
Regardless of this, myself and the wife are pretty low users of water too, and we just paid £240 for 6 months on a meter and that is being careful not to waste it and even using the shower rather than bath etc.
I would happily swop to paying £200 for as much as I wanted.
Blimey, my last 10 months water bill was less than £200. We used less than 5 cu m a month. What charge per cubic meter was that?I would happily swop to paying £200 for as much as I wanted.
Obviously we will not have a meter fitted without the landlord's consent, what I was trying to find out was whether he was legally obliged to let us fit one.
As a matter of interest we are considered model tenants by our previous landlords, we take good care of the property and generally return it in better condition than when we moved in.
As this thread has been resurrected I thought I would give you an update. Landlord agreed to reduce my rent by half of the water bill on the understanding I will not fit a meter. Thereby costing himself £200+ a year rather than allow the fitting of a free meter. That's fine by me although I think him a bit daft....
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