found out my boiler was not fitted correctly.

hi hello hopefully you got to see my amazing Sunset video that I did earlier I was so overwhelmed by the sunset I had to take the photographs as quickly as possible because as you know the sun changes really really fast in the morning so today I'm doing something a little bit different um I live in a rented property which I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before in my videos now I can't sit on this I cannot stand on the unit if I could I would but I can't so I won't so I'm currently on a little bit of a stall so I'm raising my arm as high as I can to show you my boiler now I'm in a rented property and it is my landlord's job to make sure my boiler is serviced every year it's an annual service if you're a homeowner then obviously it's your job your responsibility to make sure that it is serviced but if I was a homeowner and I found out what I have found out about this boiler I would be demanding my money back from the person that installed it now I'm not a plumber my dad was um and the boiler that I'm about to show you this is the top of the boiler so if anyone who is an expert I don't want people guessing I mean people that are actually fully qualified have a gas what is now called a gas safe 50 certification it used to be Corgi registered now it's gas safe I will slowly pan down scroll down with my with my camera and show you this boiler so this is the top of the boiler I do apologize for the dust but again because I can't stand on the units I don't really clean it so it's what I call my little spiderweb Corner um fantastic in the summer especially when I had loads of wasps living in the roof of the house I just left all the spiders webs in the window and they actually helped to keep the Wasps from coming into the house so that was a plus um you can actually see from this angle that the space on the wall was where the which was shows how big the original boiler was or the space the original boiler took look so as we pan down slowly slowly slowly we can see that none of this has been filled in by my landlord or by the person who installed the boiler who was supposed to be um a plumber and obviously gas safety registered we have then come to the make and model of the boiler and do not use this person okay I am naming and shaming you on social media this is the person who installed this boiler this is the person who I need to now report to gas safe as being a Dody plumber all right this boiler has not been installed correctly all right this is the pipe work [Music] underneath some of it is copper some of it is plastic and it leaks luckily it's just the water that is the problem and it hasn't been a gas leak it's been a water leak I have been waiting since this boiler was installed in 2021 for my landlord to have this boiler serviced yes environmental health are involved I contacted them again in January of this year and somebody finally came out to see me on Tuesday so I don't care what anyone says it's an absolute load of crap all right the local companies are not being named and shamed enough for not doing their jobs properly and environmental health in Theon and bedworth burough Council have taken from January uary until until Tuesday of this week we are in June to come out and speak to me about the fact that I have got a boiler that hasn't been serviced and despite me trying to get my landlord to service this Appliance he has refused I then found up environmental health again and again and again and again like everybody would probably do and he basically turned around and said to environmental health oh the person who rents that house she is bullshitting you she has never phoned me to tell me the boiler needs serviceing she has never phoned me to tell me that there's been an issue with the appliance well I shouldn't have to ring him he is my landlord it is his job to know when his boiler in his house that he owns needs to serviced I have got text messages I have got photographic evidence of the amount of times I have contacted him and nothing has been done so hopefully today someone is going to come out we've given them a time frame we have said between 10 till 2:00 that is because obviously I homeschool my son he is not with me today I have had to his dad's had to take a whole day off work to homeschool him on my behalf so that I can have this boiler fixed now luckily the plumber that did come out is sadly not the one my landlord's going to use it's going to use somebody else surprise surprise and he basically told me straight away I will not touch that Appliance it cannot be registered as being a safe Appliance it hasn't been installed correctly whoever installed it needs to be reported but that's your decision to make I can't do that on your behalf this is what needs doing so you're looking at at least a day's work but I cannot do anything without your landlord's consent so to then have my landlord have the audacity to turn around and lie to environmental health I mean what if there had been a gas leak if there had been a gas leak let's admit it I'd be dead by now all right um his house probably would have exploded um and me and my kids would have died or we would have had carbon monoxide poisoning that is how serious it is the fact that it's been a water leak has meant shame on him all of his units have blown um all under here there is no units because of the water damage to the property underneath my sink again I have had to have all of this p work replac and I did that myself because my landlord refused to do it all down here again Rising damp there is a water leak in the ceiling and all environmental health said to me when they did finally come out again was I've seen worse and it's like yeah great I bet you have seen worse and I bet half of the worst properties that you've seen have probably been properties that you actually own you know they're these Council Properties or Housing Association properties because believe me I have lived in worst squala but then what happens is people then get into the mindset of it you know if my landlord is not going to fix my boiler isn't going to service my boiler to keep me safe why should I mow the grass and and maintain the lawn and so for the last year I I only got it strimmed last week I just couldn't be bothered I thought what's the point why am I oh wow look there's actually a bird in that in on the thistle I don't know whether you can see it I'm not going insane I do apologize that I think it's probably found like one of my caterpillars because um we keep the r ragwar in the garden throughout the year so um the c bar moths and can uh have somewhere to to to live but anyway bit of diversion there but I did I literally got to the point where I was ringing him and texting him every single day saying come on when are you going to service this boiler when are you going to service fix the leak in the in the roof in the kitchen and his attitude was oh when I come back from my bether where you know um well I'm sorry then I'm not going to do the garden and this Garden if I was to show you what it looked like originally when I moved in eight years ago that Garden gosh it would win an award for being like the way it is right now when I first moved in you couldn't even use the garden there was Bramble right up to the window frames from three directions my children couldn't even play in the garden for like 6 months because me and their dad had to physically go through the whole garden with a fine tooth comb and the amount of broken glass we found beer cans helium cans whoever had rented this house before me had obviously used it as a drug Den there was needles there was all sorts in in in that lawn it was absolutely disgusting and for the first year of being being here I took a lot a lot of pride in being here I was very happy that I had a roof over my head I felt so lucky to be accommodated but I've been here eight years now so I am very lucky to have had a tency that long but in that time frame the amount of major damage and dilapidation that has taken place in this property has just been an absolute joke and this is the problem that people are facing I actually viewed a house last week um I do have the photographs and I have already put them on social media they were trying to charge ,000 a month for a property and the bathroom upstairs was just covered in black mold all over the bathroom and all the landlord all the estate agents sorry said was while it's a managed tency will make sure that it's sorted well I'm sorry as a managed teny if you're trying to sell a property to people to rent at ,000 a month and it's already covered in black mold in my opinion you've already done a bit of a job um because you haven't made sure that the previous tenants understood how to ventilate the premises not only that it had the wrong um electric um Appliance in the bathroom because I've had electricians comment on my photos and say well how the hell has that person had a shower and not been electrocuted because they've just put a standard light fitting in the bathroom so yeah that's my like little rant from crazy KY today so you know I think landlords do need to be named and shamed and I think people shouldn't feel like they shouldn't speak their minds especially after what's just happened in Nan and with those counselors who were basically allowed to say what how they wanted and got away with it so if you have a rogue landlord or you know someone who's done some really really work in your property I think social media is the way to go and I don't want to be accused of slander but you know I'll see what this plumber says when they arrive later but as I've said do not use this person and if you're landlord is not making sure that your your property is safe and they've not made sure that the the electrics or the boiler have been serviced that is what environmental health is for and they are supposed to help you but it should not take over six months for them to come out and see you I mean it's like like I said I'm so lucky because I have literally seen photos and videos on social media of council properties in my hometown where there have been burst pipes and the council have said oh just turn the stock tap off at the mains and um we'll send somebody out on Monday and then they've literally turned the Taps off but obviously there's water still in the system and it's had to drain and it's caused loads of damage the council have told them don't go and get your own plumber otherwise you'll be liable um you've got to wait for one of our plumbers to turn up but again this isn't a a managed tency by the council this is private um and literally I I've lived in managed Properties by the council I've been in Housing Association properties and I literally had it where it took them two weeks to fix a door in my property that I couldn't open where my uniform was so I could go to work um and they said that wasn't an emergency but my argument always had been what if IID been the other side of that door and I couldn't open it how would I have got out you know I would I didn't have my phone with me at the time all I did literally I'm not joking was I closed a door in my property and it closed behind me and it wouldn't open and unfortunately the gentleman they did send out to fix the door um this was it's Stone water now but it used to be jeffon house Association um he actually cut his hand open trying to do the door and he even admitted that the doors that had been put on these new properties these new apartments were not up to fire safety regulations and I wasn't the first person to have this happen to them so I was there four years and within the four years every single door in my apartment had to be re put on again my front door the lock broke several times I used to have to throw my keys out of the window so that people could let me out of my apartment because I literally couldn't get out it was a huge fire safety risk to everybody and again the Housing Association did nothing about it but I'm going back 12 years I was very young then I was very innocent I was more naive I didn't know about the citizens advice I didn't know about you know getting help or support with housing I mean I tried but I got nowhere and as a result of the bullying and harassment that I endur for Jefferson's eventually I became homeless and I think this is why people don't complain because they don't want to become homeless but at the same time if you're being locked in your apartment and you cannot get out of it if there was a fire and you're reporting this to your landlord and they're like well what do you want us to do about it pay for a new locksmith yourself you know it's you know I wouldn't want someone to say that to my own children or if they were older or to someone who was elderly or disabled so anyway back to the spoiler so I've obviously took some a video I'm going to take some photos but again this is why landlords get away with it because there are so many people looking for somewhere to live and people don't want to be evicted but at the same time the way I look at it is what if this had been a gas leak and gas leaks are nothing to joke about luckily it was a water leak but this is why the people that put these in are supposed to be registered this is why they do their training so to be told by another plumber that straight away just by looking at this Appliance that it has not been put incorrectly is terrifying because if this has happened to me how many other people has this happened to so don't suffer in silence name and shame these people otherwise it could cost someone their life

Channel: Katrina Slomczynski

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Length: 17min 50sec (1070 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2024