On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:23:19 +0000, Lobster wrote:

Those things can be a bloody nightmare for rental properties in
particular... your typical tenant on a water meter won't give monkeys
about the fact that water starts running into the toilet bowl 24/7,
and/or won't put two and two together and come up with the simple truth
that they are wasting and having to pay for gallons of extra water per
day. Then months later, the massive water bill comes in, and they
expect the landlord to stump up the difference because it's down to
fault in the property, as they see it. (Not BTDTGTTS, as it happens!)

Where upon Landlord points to clauses in rental agrreement requiring that
faults are notified within a set period of time and also to an Appendix
forming part of the agreement that has a non-exclusive(*) list of
possible faults. An entry on which is a description of how to spot a
failed ball valve in the loo cistern.

(*) Is that the right term? A list that doesn't include everything and
something not being on the list doesn't exclude it from being considered
on it.

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Cheers
Dave.