HMO Management Regulations - Regulation 5 - Water and Drainage

Описание: Making sure there is water and that it drains away is so important in a HMO.

As landlord and/or manager it is advised you control the water bills and pay them.

If you leave it to tenants and they don't pay the bill and the water gets cut off you get the fine. It is in your control. Is the risk of a £10,000 fine worth it? You can pay the most expensive plumber or water company and it would be cheaper.

Keep those drains clear, make sure no leaves are blocking it's flow. Have fortnightly checks to be sure. It is in your control.
If the occupants block it is it worth a £5,000 fine? You'd travel from Australia for less to fix it yourself.
HMOManagement Regulations - Regulation 5 - Water and Drainage

Duty of manager to maintain water supply and drainage


5.—(1) The manager must ensure that the water supply and drainage system serving the HMO is maintained in good, clean and working condition and in particular he must ensure that—

(a) any tank, cistern or similar receptacle used for the storage of water for drinking or other domestic purposes is kept in a good, clean and working condition, with a cover kept over it to keep the water in a clean and proper condition; and
(b) any water fitting which is liable to damage by frost is protected from frost damage.

(2) The manager must not unreasonably cause or permit the water or drainage supply that is used by any occupier at the HMO to be interrupted.

(3) In this regulation “water fitting” means a pipe, tap, cock, valve, ferrule, meter, cistern, bath, water closet or soil pan used in connection with the supply or use of water, but the reference in this definition to a pipe does not include an overflow pipe or the mains supply pipe.

No matter what the occupants do, the manager must make it right.

Pay the bills, inspect regularly, respond to issues immediately, when it comes to water and drainage.

As investors invest in the management too. It makes so much sense.

Saving £100s to get fines of £1,000s is stupidity, not investing.

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