Landlady Endangering Lives

[winkyridg]

My sister lives in a private rented house,the hot water and heating broke down last year in October , it took , said , landlady until just before xmas to get the heating sorted , a new boiler had to be fitted , once the plumbers had finished she then discovered there was no cold water coming out of the tap in the bath , luckily for some unknown reason the hot water for the bath is only lukewarm ( we have no idea why as the hot water in the sink in the same room is quite hot ) so this is not so much a problem which is good really as she is still waiting for the plumber to rectify it , she has really bad damp in the bathroom and main bedroom, she has been waiting for nearly a year for a gas and electric safety certificate , and just last week when she finally had an electrician round discovered that 95% of plug sockets and light switches had not been earthed , the house looks like it may have been rewired at some point in the past ,but the live and neutral cables were connected and the earth cables had been cut back and not connected ,the earths that were connected had no sheath on them , the shear devastation at this particular discovery no words can describe , the drain blocked last week the same cowboys that have done some of the work in the house came out to unblock it and have done something wrong as now when my sister empties her bath the downstairs loo bubbles one can only assume there may be some sort of airlock , my sister has been in touch with her local council and they are willing to help her out of the situation and are currently starting court procedings against the landlady as this is one of many house she owns , she has offered no apology she just asks for rent all the time , is there any thing my sister can do to get some form of compensation for the way she has been forced to live , which has also made her ill at times ? any help would be greatly appreciated , thanks in advance

[tamborine]

am over 'spoon-feeding' minors chuckf.....

Tenants are more aware of conditions in their properties; they can call in estimates to be agreed by landlords etc.