As a tenant, you have a responsibility to care for your home and to undertake some minor repairs yourself.As a tenant, you have a responsibility to care for your home and to undertake some minor repairs yourself.

You are responsible for the following:

  • All repairs to fixtures and fittings installed by yourself
  • All internal decorating
  • Sweeping chimneys
  • Electric lamps and fluorescent tubes (unless in sheltered scheme)
  • Plugs and chains to baths and sinks
  • Coat hooks and curtain rails
  • Clothes posts and washing lines (except in communal areas)
  • All garden maintenance, including tree and hedge cutting
  • Floor coverings
  • Minor cracks to plaster
  • Door bells
  • Changing locks caused by lost keys (unless in sheltered scheme or elderly)
  • Cracked or broken glass, unless caused by vandalism, in which case a police incident number must be submitted
  • Boundary fences
  • All repairs caused as a result of damage, misuse or negligence. St Leger Homes will carry out such repairs but the work will be subject to a charge

Your Tenancy Agreement will give you further details about your responsibilities as a tenant of St Leger Homes.

 

Communal areas

Please report any repairs that are needed to communal areas, including lighting. If you are aware that any damage has been caused deliberately, please let us know so that this can be investigated and, where appropriate, charged to those that caused the damage.

If you have any comments, please contact us or fill in our online Comments Compliments and Complaints Form.

 

How to Report a Repair