Hi everybody !
Apologize in advance for my bad english but I'm french ans speaking about heating issues is quite complicated when it's not your language.
We moved in a new house in december and unfortunately, discovered that the house is bloody cold even with all the heaters on.
There is no central heating, only old storage heaters wich I think are probably 20 years old at least. It's cold and quite expensive tho, around 300 quids a month. Just to be precise, they are correctly set up and we have a "peak off" system. Downstairs the temperature is around 14 degrees at the maximum.
I've contacted the agency and the landlord about this. In first instance the landlord offered to get cheap radiators at Argos. I told him that I'm not going to pay more electricity just because he doesn't want make any improvments in the house. He says he doesn't have the money to put a central heating system and he recently told me that he will probably put the house for sale.
I'm 5 month pregnant and I'm totally struggled with this situation. We live in a remote location and there is no private tenants at all in our area. The waiting queue for a council house is about a year and I really don't know what to do.
Does anyone know if there is a way to get this fixed by the landlord ? Or if there is any financial help for him ? The electricity bill cost us a fortune every month, and the house is still bloody cold.
Any help will be more than appreciated !
Thanks in advance.
Apologize in advance for my bad english but I'm french ans speaking about heating issues is quite complicated when it's not your language.
We moved in a new house in december and unfortunately, discovered that the house is bloody cold even with all the heaters on.
There is no central heating, only old storage heaters wich I think are probably 20 years old at least. It's cold and quite expensive tho, around 300 quids a month. Just to be precise, they are correctly set up and we have a "peak off" system. Downstairs the temperature is around 14 degrees at the maximum.
I've contacted the agency and the landlord about this. In first instance the landlord offered to get cheap radiators at Argos. I told him that I'm not going to pay more electricity just because he doesn't want make any improvments in the house. He says he doesn't have the money to put a central heating system and he recently told me that he will probably put the house for sale.
I'm 5 month pregnant and I'm totally struggled with this situation. We live in a remote location and there is no private tenants at all in our area. The waiting queue for a council house is about a year and I really don't know what to do.
Does anyone know if there is a way to get this fixed by the landlord ? Or if there is any financial help for him ? The electricity bill cost us a fortune every month, and the house is still bloody cold.
Any help will be more than appreciated !
Thanks in advance.