Repair Service Standards
The Repairs Team are available to take your repair requests 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. Outside of these hours we have an out of hour’s service for emergency repairs.
These Service Standards set out what we will do, and how quickly we will do it. These standards are our commitment to you and they explain the level of service you can expect from us in relation to the repairs service.
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Emergency repairs will be carried out within 24 hours.
An emergency is defined as something which could not have been foreseen and which could cause danger to health, residents’ safety, or serious damage and destruction to property.
Emergency call out contractors will normally make safe to enable full and proper repairs to be undertaken during normal working hours. The types of work they attend include, but not limited to:
- Severe roof leaks
- Burst pipes or uncontainable leaks
- Blockage of your only toilet (this may be rechargable, see Rechargable Repairs)
- Severe loss of electrical power or light
- Unsafe power, lighting socket or electrical fitting
- Loss of heating in cold weather where there is no other form of heating available
- Loss of immersion heater if this is the only source for hot water
- Insecure external window or door .
We recognise that pensioners and vulnerable tenants will need special consideration in certain circumstances.
If a contractor is called out to carry out a repair as an emergency when an emergency repair is not justified then you are liable to be charged for all costs concerned.
These are less urgent repairs that can wait a short time before being dealt with and include minor problems with toilets, baths, sinks, doors or windows sticking, plaster repairs, brickwork, and other non-urgent internal and external repairs.
These are less urgent repairs that can include repairs to fences, gutters and meter box doors.
