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Asking for repairs

Use this letter to ask your landlord to make a repair to your flat or tower block.

A letter you can copy

What to do:

  • Copy and paste the text below into an email or document.
  • Replace any text [in brackets] with your own information
  • Include details {in curly brackets} if they are relevant, or remove them if they are not.
  • Send the email to your landlord, or print out the document and send it by post.
  • If you are sending by post, keep a copy for yourself and a record of the date that the message was sent.

[Your address]
[Today’s date]

[Name of your contact or landlord]
[Your landlord’s address]

[Your rent/tenant ID number]
{REF: any reference number you were given when previously raising this subject}

Dear [your landlord’s name],

I am a tenant of [name of your block or building] and I am writing to formally request {a repair/repairs} to my accommodation.

The {area/s} that need attention {is/are}:
[List the things that need repairing here].

{Ideally, this needs to be rectified as soon as possible, as in the current state it could cause an accident/is a health risk/will rapidly become worse}.

{OR While at the moment this is a minor issue, if left unattended it will worsen, and I am keen to get it seen to before that stage.}

Please could you contact me at your earliest convenience to arrange a visit, during which I can show you the problem and discuss the best way forward.

I look forward to receiving your reply by [date, two weeks in the future] at the latest.

Yours sincerely,
[sign your name]
[print your name]

If you don’t get an answer within two weeks