Make the screw holes a bit bigger and tell the landlord it fell out on its own, narrowly missing you, but that you won't be taking legal action if he just fixes it pdq. I don't know what you're studying but an essential part of any course should be the ability to deflect blame for everything. It'll stand you in good stead for most careers.
If it has it's not likely to be the fault of an average user in good faith. IMO.
DG
You missed the bit where he said 'I took some screws out' The average user doesn't go dismantling the window. The average student however......
Stuart, I'm shocked.
There is Chris in the unsullied world of academia with his whole life stretched before him complete with opportunities to go in any direction he chooses and here are some of us suggesting that he behaves in a less than completely honest way.
As it is, he has to deal with residing in the Livingstonesque capital with all it's challenges, and we are suggesting that he finds a B&Q at
2pm on a Sunday afternoon.When that fails, we suggest all kinds of ways to to address the problem with little or no expenditure, never mind the responsibility.
At the very least he should forward the name of his moral tutor so that we can forward our invoice for consultancy.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "SimonJ" saying something like:
Worst of the lot are groups of female students.
We've no indication that the glass is held in by such "traditional" means.
As the window frame has a "restrictor" and it's capable of dropping out after removing just a couple of screws, I'm thinking this is some sort of Velux-style hinge arrangement, not a traditional casement with painted-over hinges you couldn't remove if you wanted to. So the glass might be held in with mastic and a wooden bead, rubber filler strips, or anything.
If it can happen to a plane it can happen to a block of flats.
Landlords are exempt from normal laws of honesty and decency.
What that really means is that youre neither honest nor decent. If you treated your landlords like that, I'm hardly surprised that they viewed you with some hostility.
NT
NT
With a 900mb depression over the Bay of Biscay, a Vindaloo and a skinfull of lager anything is possible :-)
To properly impail someone, you'd to put the shards in a bucket placed on the sill.
Thanks to everyone for their advice.
I went to John Lewis, materials/fabrics department where you can buy plastic sheets by the metre.
Got some double sided sticky velcro and it did the trick
But the caretaker for the property noticed. I was at lectures today; the company went mental - because I had dared to open the window. i live in student digs with 600 other people and they've decided on a new 'policy' so no windows can open. if there is ever a fire, we will burn to death. seriously.
Got a written warning - this is your first and final written warning.
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote:
Is that so you don't jump/fall out when you're hopelessly drunk?
Hah! Care to post the exact wording? I could do with a laugh.
When my son went into student quarters he was given an official looking memo headed simply "Vomit". Words to the effect that if the offending deposit was left for the cleaners to dispose of, a sum of £XX.XX would be levied. That was before student loans. A bit different when you're pissing your own money down the wash basin.
Anyway, enjoy living in London. You probably won't ever be able to afford it again (unless you're studying law)
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