Who, ultimately, decides whether a property is a 'standard' residential dwelling or an HMO?
Having spoken with the customer again it turns out that the single female lodger is a family member also!
Thanks again for the replies.
This is a family house and not an HMO. The top floor is a lodger (a single female currently), the next floor down is the elderly father that the family receive a caring grant for i.e. effectively a lodger. When the father passes another lodger may be taken on to...
hmmm yes that's food for thought. There's separate billing currently, this is to be done away with for a single bill so that the owner can have an idea as to where her electricity usage is going and then set lodging rates accordingly.
However I do think that there will be various paperwork...
Brilliant, thank you.
The property is not divided into flats, there is only one entrance. It's a large Victorian family house but to help pay the mortgage the top two floors are let to lodgers on a casual basis rather than separate flats, tenants and tenant agreements. There is however a...
I have been tasked with the re-wire a large property local to me. Seeing as it's a few years since i passed my 16th Edition and Part P and completed my last re-wire I need some help with the current state of play.
(I am not registered with ELECSA or similar, I will have to get my tester...
there's no immersion heater, this is a very basic system. there's no air release valves either. how could an air lock suddenly occur? the system was working really quite well for months on end before the hot water was only mildly luke warm water a few days ago.
the only way i can think that a...
only the large (hot water tank) level drops when a hot tap is opened.
if i drain the rads (i flushed them all through and re-filled with clean water and fresh inhibitor around 2 years ago) then obviously the small tank level drops.
my issue is not really about keeping warm, the heating is...
i hear you agile. i would love to be in a position to call out help, unfortunately due to a very work short winter i am only just covering the mortgage and feeding us, my rather large overdraft is what's keeping us going. the question for me is - do i not pay the mortgage or go hungry for some...
'all good as well' :- water in tank to about 2/3 full. valve allows water in when pushed down and shuts off when water at upper limit. no overflow leaking.
yes, very sure that it's a gravity hot water system. there is no 3-way valve and the central heating pump was replaced by me in november last year, so pretty sure that's fine too.
it's puzzling (to me anyways) that the hot water just suddenly stopped from one day to the next, i'd have...
same results when heating requested via timer.
just been to loft, hot water header tank full and ball valve operating correctly. i checked the radiator header tank too while there, all good as well.
any help with this is most gratefully received.
our baxi bermuda 551 has been fine until recently when the hot water temperature dropped to just about luke warm. (gravity fed system) i figured that this would be a thermostat issue and ordered and fitted a replacement. this however, made no...