My landlord installed me blinds after two months asking. Also, I complained about some stains and cracks and humidity in my place but she just bitched all the time. Eventually I gave up and stopped moaning for things I don’t give a shit. But since she feels she has been really compassionate arranging the blinds and all she keeps bitching me with his annoying e-mails and phone calls. So I decided to kick her ass with the e-mail below. Take a sit.
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Hi Sinead,
thanks for your email. The blinds are OK.
Regarding the other issues. Maybe we didn’t make ourselves understood, so let me go over the email track again, so if we can be done with these issues.
On the 5th of January we wrote you an email.
We've two requests to make to the landlord:
1 A small heater for the bathroom since there is no heat at all in there and in winter it's a bit cold.
2 Blinds for the windows - currently we only have white curtains."
We got a prompt response, 8th of January:
Hi Raul,
Hope your keeping well, I have been in touch with the landlord and we presume that there is some kind of blow heater in the bathroom, can you confirm this as maybe there is a problem with the fuse.
You stated that you and the landlord “presumed” that there was some kind of blow heater in the bathroom. Since I’m not fully confident with my English I look up for the verb “presume” in the dictionary, and it says, surprisingly:
1. to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you’re tired after your drive.
2. Law. to assume as true in the absence of proof to the contrary.
3. To take something for granted; suppose.
So this is telling me -and please let me know if I am in a mistake, because I tend to be extremely dull when reading dictionaries – that neither you or the landlord knew what was installed in the flat. In fact I presume that I could put an elephant in my kitchen and you won’t notice it. Which really puzzles me is that you and the landlord are renting a flat without knowing what is installed in it.
On Wednesday the 17th, you came to my apartment and you meet me there. You checked that there’s no blow heating, in fact I “presume” you didn’t know if there were any other means of heating the bathroom. You even took a picture with your mobile phone of what you “presumed” it could be a switch for the underfloor heating.
The 19th you replied to my email:
Your heating system in the bathroom will only heat the bathroom floor as it is underfloor heating, this is the only form of heating in the bathroom.
Despite of using “bathroom” three times in the same sentence, we still think we got the message: “there’s no heating in the bathroom”. Got it, thanks.
And the same day I wrote to you:
Still, we want a proper heating method for the bathroom since we are facing the risk of health issues when using the bathroom. Please forward this request to the landlord as we consider it a reasonable petition.
The 25th you replied, stating:
The issue with the heating in the bathroom, all I can suggest is that we get an electrician to have a look at putting a blow heater in the bathroom, John McSomeone, our electrician will try to get to it tomorrow to have a look.
Your suggestion was OK, but still we would have accepted a portable blow heater, as we let you know. But the same day:
A portable blow heater will not be sufficient as to have anything electrical plugged into a bathroom is dangerous, as water and electricity don't mix at all, so the safest solution is to get a proper bathroom heater installed.
The safest solution is to get a proper bathroom heater solution. This time you didn’t use “I think, I presume, we might… etc.” You stated: “the” safest “solution”. And then “proper bathroom solution”! Proper! So the current bathroom heater is not proper? So you, on behalf of the landlord, are telling me that the solution is to get a proper bathroom heater installed? What?!
So far, we don’t have any proper, improper, safe, insecure or pink solution at all from your side. Nothing.
In some point between this day and the 2nd I received a call from you and explained that:
a) The heater installation is too expensive, which I considered to be reasonable. That’s to do with the builders – I will refer to them later.
b) The underfloor heater should be enough. If that was the solution (proper this time? Or no solution at all?) from the beginning, why did you “presume” that there were a “blow heater”, that the “safest” solution was a non-portable heater, and etc?
The 2nd of February you wrote an e-mail:
The underfloor heating in the bathroom, this needs to be left on at all times, as you are turning this on and off, this will in fact be more costly than leaving the under floor heating on all of the time.
To the suggestion of using the improper solution, my girlfriend replied:
We left the underfloor heating on from last Friday to Sunday, set at the maximum level available. As a result, the floor was warm, that's
true, and the room as well, but it is not an appropriate way of heating from an energy saving point of view. The underfloor heating has been switched off as it doesn't fit at all the purpose of warming the bathroom quickly enough just we it's needed (as we don't need to keep it warm the whole day). So we consider that it's a waste of energy to leave it on.
My girlfriend is Spanish too, and she’s not confident with English, and in confidence she’s a bit dull as well. I’m trying to get rid of her because of this, but back to point: I’ll try to use simple English to clarify her message:
5 months to warm a 3×3 bathroom that will be used 5 minutes a day is a waste of money and time. In fact it’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard.
We are not going to switch on the underfloor heating for that reason. Hope you understand this time. We required a fast, cheap, proper and clean way to heat up the bathroom, say 5 minutes. If, let’s say, I come back to my place after a hard, windy, cold day of work and I feel like freezing, I boost the heaters up and everything is warm, quiet, comfortable and peaceful in 5 minutes. If it’s too hot, we just turn off the heaters. We don’t understand why should we turn on the underfloor heating on 1st of January and turn it off in May. We want a quick solution.
But we accepted that the reasons given by the technician were enough to give up. Which I dare to sum up in one: somebody screw it up with the flat plan. We managed to keep the bathroom warm without using the costly underfloor heating. In fact, we bought a blow heater, 30 euros at argos, specially designed for bathrooms. We plug it outside the bathroom – because there’s no suitable plug in the bathroom, just to let you know so you don’t have to “presume” there’s a plug in the bathroom when the next idiot dares to ask you for anything-. We plug it in, switch on for 5 minutes, switch off, remove it from the bathroom, close the bathroom door, put the blow heater in the hall closet, close the hall closet, switch the bathroom fan on, open the bathroom door, get in, close the bathroom door, get undressed and then take the shower. 30 euros/5 minutes. In comparision with underfloor heating: plus 30 euros month x 5 months = 150 euros and lots of minutes. I don’t know how you skipped this solution.
Regarding the fan. You keep asking why it’s turned off. Again, don’t let our English fool you:
As far as I'm concern, the fan in the bathroom makes up for the lack
of a window, and should be run just when needed (i.e. after having
shower). So there's no need to left it on all the time (as there is a
switch for that purpose), because that will be very annoying (and a
waste of energy) for example during the night.
We know how to use it and we do just when needed.
In simple English: “I don’t need the fan when I’m brushing my teeth, or combing my hair. I will switch it on when I fart, shit, pee, inhale glue or take a shower within the bathroom“. Hope the message is clear enough. This email was written around the 2nd of February.
Email from the 2nd:
In relation to the other matters, namely the leak in the corner of the
apartment, neither Neil McSomeone, myself or his three collogues could see
any evidence of this.
I would go over the water leaks again (namely water leaks, and namely flakes that are namely visible on the floor) and the professional builders (namely professional builders, so to speak). I’ve sent you pictures of everything, obviously highlighting the contrasts with a software because there’s no other way to notice them in white plain walls except when it rains heavily, but obviously the builders didn’t know that or didn’t want to know or they were just a couple of friends having fun at my underpants and socks drying in the living room. But since I’m not a builder, I’m not going to tell them how to do their job. As I said, I would go over but I’m just too tired. And doesn’t bother me too much, at the end of the day I pointed this out to you, so I don’t give a damn, and unless namely water starts dripping from the namely water leak, I won’t complain any more. It’s up to the landlord to fix his own apartment.
We truly appreciate your letters with suggestions and all about the humidity problem. The problem is that most of those things we knew already, as we mentioned over and over and over in our previous emails. But keep trying, you know, we in Spain live in dwells with coconuts and banana trees all around the place and do some siesta from time to time. It’s hard to make us understand some basic concepts of housekeeping.
I hope this email clarifies things and hope we are done with all this.
And I hope I never have to ask you for anything, say, neighbourhood littering the stairs, neighbourhood making parties, peeing on the lift floor and those kind of issues that nobody ever sort out despite of being notified in the monthly State Agent junk-mail.
Yours faithfully,
Hasterbin.



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