The Move Pics and Updates!

[Orcs]

Superglue really DOESNT boots, Ian, I know this from personal experience

Leon, how come your'e painting the OLD unit?! That was a rental wasn't it, and surely that's the landlords job?!

Yes surely that's down to reasonable wear and tear

[Techno II]

Superglue really DOESNT boots, Ian, I know this from personal experience.

DOESNT boots ? 

[fsn]

Yeah. Obviously. For boots you want duct tape.

[fsn]

LightRelocate by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr

Needs a mural.

[toxicpixie]

Yeah. Obviously. For boots you want duct tape.

Soldering iron and/or arc welder for proper boots

And I'm with Orcs with that - unless you've trashed the place, it's an industrial unit and the landlords responsibility?!

Mind you having had to fight every bloody landlord Ive ever had for my deposit (having left places better than when I've moved in...) my faith in them is... limited...

[Orcs]

Mind you having had to fight every bloody landlord Ive ever had for my deposit (having left places better than when I've moved in...) my faith in them is... limited...

Having had 4 girls going to Uni I would have been with you on that.   

However last year the youngest finished her degree. Her landlord had been very responsive and reasonable throughout the two years they had stayed in his property. 
When we went to collect her stuff after the end of first lockdown we bumped into him deep cleaning the house and decorating the rooms that were already unoccupied.  He said to me  " I  am going to repaint the bedrooms and replace  the hall carpet.  The only work I have is wear and tear. When I came to this country I had a landlord refuse my deposit for no good reason, so I know what its like to be cheated. They will all get their deposits back within a fortnight of them leaving.".  He was true to his word.

[toxicpixie]

Blimey!

Well done that man

[Leon]

Leon, how come your'e painting the OLD unit?! That was a rental wasn't it, and surely that's the landlords job?!

Yes surely that's down to reasonable wear and tear

And I'm with Orcs with that - unless you've trashed the place, it's an industrial unit and the landlords responsibility?!

Sadly that's true of residential lettings but not commercial unfortunately.  In a residential let the landlord has to accept 20% 'wear and tear' per annum, so after 5 years of a single tenant all of the fittings (carpets, curtains, white goods, etc) are no longer the tenants responsibility and if they need replacing then the landlord has to do it.

With commercials, the tenant has to leave the property in the same state as we took it on, so we have to repaint all walls, floors and doors, replace a water heater that's never worked in 9 years, get electric and gas safety certificates (although I'm challenging that second one as gas fixtures should be the landlord responsibility).  They tried to get us to put down carpets that weren't present when we took it on as well.  Basically we're making it all nice and ready for them to put new tenants straight in...

One of the other units in our compound used to be secondhand car dealers who left without doing anything to repair the place and the landlords sent them a bill for £6000 of work.  We heard that it went to court and the judge found in the tenants favour, but potentially having to do something like that is a headache I could do without right now.  We'll redecorate, make sure everything works and then hand the keys back.  I'm fully expecting them to find something wrong and we won't get the deposit back anyway so I've written that off.

[Leon]

Time for another update!  Saturday and Sunday we got the last of our stuff out of the old unit and then skimmed all of the plasterboards in the new office.  The electrician was back in on Saturday and got the lights and sockets installed up there for us, so we now have light!  I'll be starting the painting in there on Monday morning, while the rest of the painting team are back at the old place to get that sorted out.

OfficePlastered by Leon Pengilley, on Flickr


And as we're at the end of Week 4, I've done another update video for you:

[jimduncanuk]

Exemplary.

[paulr]

 

[Techno II]

Brilliant !!! 

Cheers - Phil.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Almost finished - whats going to go wrong 

[toxicpixie]

Sadly that's true of residential lettings but not commercial unfortunately. 

*snip*

One of the other units in our compound used to be secondhand car dealers who left without doing anything to repair the place and the landlords sent them a bill for £6000 of work.  We heard that it went to court and the judge found in the tenants favour, but potentially having to do something like that is a headache I could do without right now.  We'll redecorate, make sure everything works and then hand the keys back.  I'm fully expecting them to find something wrong and we won't get the deposit back anyway so I've written that off.

Ah, that's rather tighter then...

Problem with landlords doing the latter is that it gives a perverse incentive for the tenant not to bother - if they're gonna sting your deposit, what's the point in even trying to make good?

Still? Good job you've enough time and resources to basically renovate the whole damn premises, even for the stuff that's always been duff! Cheeky deckers about the carpet - that's well off. Cant think why landlords/letting agents have a bad rep, neh.

[Orcs]

Wow thats looking Brilliant