Rechargeable Repairs
You are required to conduct your tenancy in a tenant like manner, taking reasonable care of your home both inside and out, carrying out some basic routine maintenance.
You are required to report any repairs as they arise to help minimise any damage that could get worse if unattended, allowing us to get repairs done as quickly as possible.
Following consultation with tenants a definitive list of repairs has been established which identifies tenant’s responsibilities:
· Repairing minor plaster cracks
· Internal decoration
· TV aerials (except communal aerials)
· Loose screws on cupboards, windows, doors or gate furniture
· Washing machine installation
· Curtain rails
· Gaining entry to the property
· External door locks
· Additional household keys
· Re-glazing windows
· Shower curtains and poles
· Laminate flooring
· Loose floor coverings and carpets
· Bolts or locks to outhouses or garden gates
· Coat rails or hooks
· Plugs and fuses for electrical appliances
· Light bulbs, fluorescent tubes and starters
· Batteries for smoke detectors
· Clothes posts
· Safety chains
· Door bells
· Blocked gulley’s
· Sink and bath plugs and chains.
Further Information
You can obtain further information by contacting our Repairs and Maintenance Unit:
Telephone: Text us: Fax us:
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Write to:
Blyth Valley Housing,
Cowley Road,
Blyth Riverside Business Park,
Blyth,
NE24 5TF.
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(01670) 542424
07950 08 09 08
(01670) 542420
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RNID Typetalk service
prefix number 18001
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75 Marine Terrace
Blyth
Northumberland
NE24 2BX
Phone: 01670 542542



