Recent content by Jackdown

Sorry it is a Kiddie consumer smoke alarm....... not sure of the model but a fairly cheap one I think. It usually goes off when we turn the sockets that our computers are plugged into on but it has also gone off when we've plugged in lamps and or phone chargers.

Hi there myself and a friend have recently started renting a newly converted flat and we are having some trouble with one of the fire alarms in the place. It is wired into the mains and mounted on the ceiling downstairs in between the two bedrooms. However it has a recurring problem that...

Hi there myself and a friend have been renting a house for a couple of months or so now and one of the rooms has a problem with recurring fluffy efflorescent salts coming through the plaster. The room in question is at the front of the house and is below street level. The front wall opening...

.......point taken and duly noted

We found out because we found the boiler installation log book shoved down the back of the boiler and not filled in. Phoned CORGI and asked them if the installation had been registered with them.... lo and behold it hadn't. Then proceeded to pester landlady until a gas inspection man came out to...

Hi there just a note to get a bit of feedback really. Myself and a friend moved into a rented property a couple of months ago. Before we moved in a new boiler had to be fitted which it duly was. However the short version of the story is that we found out that the work had been carried out by...

Yeah things are looking interesting. The current argument is that it is 'technically' not a 'basement' it is a 'lower ground floor' conversion i.e you used to go down the steps from street level to the front door but the front door has now been replaced by the front bedroom window. The...

Cheers for the demoralising replies folks!! To be fair it is all, mostly, stuff that I've mentioned to the ladlady and I was looking for reassurance that I wasn't just being a pain. It's a shame because it could've been a really nice flat if it'd been put together properly in the first place...

Hi there myself and a friend have recently moved in to a new flat conversion in an end of terrace house. Having been there a month or so a few problems have started to emerge and although the landlady is being very nice about trying to get things sorted the builders she is using appear to be...