Owning your own home

Who is the lease with, who owns the freehold of the building? That's who needs to enforce that.

I know someone who had a similar issue in their block (they weren't directly impacted) and after lots of other attempts to stop them it ended up with the freeholder informing the mortgage company that they were in breach of their lease. It stopped fairly quickly after that

£3 to obtain title deeds which will detail the lender which has a mortgage secured against the property 😄

I’m travelling at the moment be back Friday and will dig through details

https://www.essexbrickworkandrepointing.co.uk/brickwork/

Yes this is it. Freeholders would take care of that.
Generally it means fees for their sollicitors so they are more than happy to oblige.

Meant to reply to @bobble

Lease is with the management company which each of the flats own 1/5 of. Cheers that's really useful

Cheers and @pifko
Informal freeholder situation

Does the management co have any appointed officers?

Usually, first step would be for the management co to write to lessors reminding them of the lease terms.

Ugh, something is tripping the main Protected Circuits RCD at our gaff. Trouble is, it does it at night. so the lights go off in the kids rooms which freaks them out resultant in freaked out kids and double freaked out parents.

I'm looking suspiciously at the tumble dryer, but although the first time it happened it was on, the second time it happened it was on timer.

First thing to think is anything that can get wet. Any outdoor lights/sockets top of the list for trouble. Washing Machine/Dishwasher are possibilities. Could just be damp in the walls penetrating a cable and causing the insulation resistance to break down. You need an IR tester to track those down.

I hope it's an appliance - the tumble dryer - and not something more sinister.

How much would people expect cleaning the gutters on a standard semi to be?

Too much.

There will be a local person - get on the neighbourhood WhatsApp and ask around.

Anyone you get from search / Facebook adds etc will fleece you

OH got a quote for £120. Which just seems like a lot of money.

It's so fucking annoying as we have a electrician a few doors down with a massive ladder he's happy to lend out. And a tree surgeon, who might.

But the intersection between it not being on site/another van, me being free, and there not being some sort of horrific weather event has been non-existent.

120 sounds good to me.

I'd pay that to not go up a ladder 7m.

I paid £100 recently for gutters cleaned and windows too.

If you have a window cleaner ask them, they're used to big ladders but seem a bit cheaper than those who do guttering.

£150 in London's famous.

Our bathroom has an electric towel rail mounted into a fully tiled wall.

its never worked properly since we moved in, the control unit was not working properly and only let you turn it on or off manually, now that unit is totally bust and we cant turn it on at all. Its ‘chrome’ but rusted badly. Googling it seems like an off brand very cheap unit.

We want to replace it with something better quality..

1. They dont seem to be very standard sizes so i guess we’re going to have to make new holes?
   
2. How easy is it to replace individual (square 10x10cm) tiles without ruining the wall?
   
3. I feel like i might need a professional.. who to call?
   
   

Photo? I (re) installed the one in our loft bathroom (builders somehow fucked up what turned out to be a very easy job).

Depending on what's there now, if you can change a socket you can install an electric towel radiator.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ddN_Q_jsJa6SKbozki_9Z5Mg

Power cable goes through the wall to a regular socket on the next room

They dont seem to be very standard sizes so i guess we’re going to have to make new holes?

Not necessarily. The standoffs are usually movable horizontally so "all" you need to do is find one where the bar spacing means they align vertically (don't forget to budget for the position of the tails - you may have to trim them to get it sat just right).

Edit: electric means no tails so even easier.

That said, get some filler to match your grout and you won't notice the old holes behind a new rail.

Shouldn’t it be on a fused spur?

They don’t always use a ladder - there are machines that allow it to be done from the ground.

Even if they are ladderists, it’s a lot of money for two hours of fairly unskilled work.

Maybe if it’s inside the bathroom? But i guess they got round it by running the cord into the next room..?