Did i get cheated?

[ekmdgrf]

Except now you have a post on a public forum admitting causing the damage by slamming the door...

Also the contact does say something about reporting maintenance issues to the landlord rather than letting them have a catalogue of surprises when they receive the property back.

It's all a bit retrospective now but a few points that spring to mind:

* Shut the doors in future, don't slam them
* If you find things wrong, tell the landlord
* Leave the property as you found it. Surely you knew of these issues and maybe it would have been a good idea to have had a go at fixing them? Piece of crap though the fan installation was, I'm sure it could have been fixed by pushing it back up into it's hole. The door could be fixed by tightening the screws. If you don't own a tool for fixing the screws a good place to start would be ScrewFix.
* If you were willing to have a go at fixing it and can't work out how, there's a good DIY forum on the Internet

I think maybe you should pay the £100 and learn not to make the same mistake twice.

 

[SimonH2]

Speaking as a landlord myself, I agree with the other comments that the fan wasn't fitted properly in the first place, and slamming a door should not have made it come loose. So fight that one.
The door handle coming loose is also probably just the screws having come loose - either that or the threads have stripped or corroded away. So that isn't your fault either.

However, if one of my tenants has a problem like that then I expect them to say something about it. Short of making a highly detailed and regular inspection (which would be unwarranted and an intrusion into the tenant's privacy), I can't be expected to know of a fault if a tenant doesn't tell me about it. So while this is a bit of a post horse leaving, stable bolting instruction thing - you should really have raised these issues when they occurred.

One other thing, if a tenant failed to mention something that needed fixing, and lack of fixing caused further damage - then I'd expect the tenant to pay for the additional damage.

 

[zanzibar]

Don't waste your time pay up and move on, I fail to see how anyone can see from the photograph whether or not it was fixed properly, it could be that the fixings were torn out of the ceiling, it is hard to say without actually seeing it. Of course if he has taken the money out of your deposit, your only recourse is to sue him, which would be a waste of time.

 

[zanzibar]

Ah I see from your post that the cash has been deducted, which reinforces my suggestion to move on which has also been suggested by SimonH2 and ekmgdrf, try to respect other peoples property.

 

[phatboy]

try to respect other peoples property.

It sounds like he did, and the landlord is being unreasonable to me.

From the picture it seems fairly evident that the fan has no screw fixings - I cannot see any torn out rawl plugs or screws.

 

[ekmdgrf]

try to respect other peoples property.

It sounds like he did, and the landlord is being unreasonable to me.

How did you arrive at that conclusion? The OP began "I slammed the door so hard that both the ceiling fan and door knocker broke".

I agree that the fan installation was probably done by a guy in stetson and spurs hitting the ceiling with the sledge hammer and then pushing the fan into the resulting hole and that the door knocker could have worked its way loose. However, the OP clearly attributed *both* to their misuse of the door.

Clearly the fan was an accident waiting to happen but if, as the OP says, the photo of the door knocker is a result of the aftermath of a single closing of the door, it gives some indication of the energy involved in doing so.

 

[SimonH2]

Sorry, but no way can I see the loose knocker being the result of slamming the door ! If you think about the forces that would be required to make the knocker fixing fail, and what that would translate to in terms of door closing speed and it's effect on the frame, I think there's naff all connecting the two.

Even so, doors do slam even with the best of intentions. Got your hands full give it a shove and fail to catch it, little bit more wind that you expected, left it open and a guest of wind catches it. But we don't know how hard he slammed it anyway - at one extreme some "slams" are nothing but a firm closing, at the other extreme is trying to put the door out the other side of the frame.

 

[phatboy]

If you can slam a door with such force that it loosens the bolts on the knocker, I cannot see how it wasn't torn of its hinges!

Clearly not misuse?

 

[ashh123]

hi guys thanks to all for the replies.
well the cause was a little complicated, so to cut it short, the door was slammed and and I was only told about the damages the next day. And the whole point was that I wanted to know if I was ripped off. by the way the house was in awful state, with things broken, old and slugs around by the door. and those damages were not in pristine condition initially when i moved in but then again i should have fixed it before leaving, taking it as a pinch of salt there. ):