Ewwww, people

[rattfan]

This is a rant about rental agents.

Say you had been having a discussion with one about who was responsible for your broken sprinkler, which covers a common strata area, not your garden.  In your last communique, you ask, well, IF I am responsible, any advice on what to do?  Go to Bunnings, they said.  Well, yes, very helpful;  I don't exactly know what it needs.  Now they say we advised you to get it fixed.  Well, no, you didn't, you said you were waiting on advice from the owner.

Flaming heck they're useless.  I don't know if this person is just not very precise and in her mind believes she DID tell me, but I save everything and can refer to it.   I didn't ask for sprinklers in the first place;  their presence or absence wasn't a point to me.  I've spent 14 years looking after a garden with a hose.  Sprinkler gadgets aren't something I know about.  So I guess I'll pay somebody who does have the expertise to do it.

It's like having your life run by a corporation.  Hang on, wait a minute....

Comments

[leecetheartist]

Is there a contact for the strata company? They might have someone on retainer for this sort of thing.

[leecetheartist]

I really don't think you'd be responsible for paying for it!

[rattfan]

The agents have *been* battling the strata company, who have completely dodged their responsibility. [agent's words, actually]
That's the whole problem, messages batted back and forth and nobody steps up.
It's a grey area, since the grassed area concerned is outside the gate and they mow it but the sprinklers belong to the owner and are supplied by the bore. I'm supposed to keep ém in the state they were when I got them.
Not willing to go to court over it, put it that way.
One sprinkler head won't be that bad, it's the principle!

[leecetheartist]

Tsk! What a nuisance. I guess what I'd do is take a photo of the sprinkler, or better still if it's easily removable, take it to Bunnings and ask for advice.

[rattfan]

I'll do the photo thing. Not sure what'll happen if I try to pull it up. Not even certain what's wrong except that I know a geyser effect isn't supposed to happen....

[rattfan]

I think that actually may have worked.
I have embarrassed self in front of a couple of young blokes who work in Bunnings, displaying my total ignorance - what's a good gif of somebody trying to look like they have actually heard of full and partially turning sprinklers - brought the thing back, screwed thing off, screwed new thing on. Now let's find out what happens when water goes through it....

I swear, the only technical term I've managed to retain in my life is "lefty loosy, righty tighty."

[leecetheartist]

Well done! Everyone does this at Bunnings but it's usually toilet valves in my experience.
I hope it wasn't exorbitant pricewise.

[rattfan]

Oh no. Just under $7 and even I can manage that.

As for toilet valves, that is *definitely* the agent's problem and if I ever own a place, I'll probably still let it be a plumber's problem.

I remember when Lena got a new loo seat for number 86 and we took the old one along to Bunnings to make sure we got the right size.

After baking my head today, I think tomorrow's definitely a stay indoors one. Friday will be worse but I'll still be inside for the majority of it. I may skip my walk around in the afternoon.

[ladypamela]

It's even worse when you get to my age and beyond. Even if I actually knew the correct name of a thing in the first place, it's a dead cert I'll have forgotten it by the time I got to Bunnings. Or the craft shop. Or any shop, really.

[fred_mouse]

I'm strongly in favour of making toilet valves the plumbers problem. In fact, have done so twice in the last fortnight, because I wasn't clever enough to realised that because both toilets had gone in short order last time, I should just have got them both dealt with at the same time. And because of this, we had an extra bit replaced which has the same warranty period (the hose from the tap to the cistern) which may or may not have been failing, but is a few dollars rather than *another* call out fee.

[rattfan]

Yes. The thing that went on the thing has been knocked off by some other thing, so I need a new thing....When do you suppose you can claim senior moments? Or senior hours, even.