Our repair responsibilities
The following repairs are our responsibility. Please report them to us.
• Repairs to garden paths, walls, fences and gates installed by the landlord
• Replacing wheelie bins every seven years, when deemed necessary
• Replacing rotary clothes driers
• Maintaining communal areas (unless they are the councils responsibility)
• Repair to walls, outside doors, windows (but not replacement of glass), roofs, chimneys, valleys, gutters, downpipes and house drains
• Electrical wiring
• Repairing electrical appliances, fires and heaters where fitted by the landlord
• Door entry systems to communal blocks
• Ceiling roses, lamp holders and flexes
• Socket outlets and switches
• Repairing defective solid fuel cookers and stoves
• Solid fuel room heaters
• Fire hearth and surrounds
• Annual service of heating appliances
• Clearing blocked sewers, drains and external waste pipes (not gullies (drainpipes) or waste pipes blocked through tenant misuse
• Boilers and hot water cylinders
• Pipe work, radiators, fittings and valves
• Window frames, sashes and window furniture
• Repairing defective internal and external doors, saddles and door frames
• Hinges, locks, handles, trapper bars and letter boxes on external doors
• Walls, staircases, structural timbers, roof, chimney and rainwater goods
• Wall and floor tiling
• Skirting boards, architraves, timber sills and other internal decorative woodwork
• Airbricks and ventilators
• Roof space insulation (if the tenant in not able to apply for grants)
• Timber rot.
For more information
Repairs desk
Tel: 0800 0742130
Email: repairs.desk@sbhg.co.uk |