Sam
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We live in a rented house (for now) and our cooker is probably about 20 years old 
I was cleaning the top of it earlier and now the ignition switch doesn't work at all. I've changed the battery for a brand new one but it's still dead, also cleaned the contacts on the battery but no dice.
Is there anything else I could easily check without blowing myself up in the process, or do I need to phone our landlord who will no doubt do sweet FA about it? 
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Brett
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Get your camping stove out mate
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Sam
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Or I could just use matches?
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Brett
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I was gonna say "as long as you only want to cook one pea at a time" but then I realised you meant to light the damn thing Yeah, you could always do that.
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AndyKent
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In all our properties we insist that cookers are the tenants responsibility for this very reason
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dannymccann
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quote:
Originally posted by AndyKent
In all our properties we insist that cookers are the tenants responsibility for this very reason
How is that fair? The cooker is a fixture or fitting provided in the contract by the landlord to the tenant, so surely it should be the responsibility of the landlord to sort it out? In the same way the plumbing, boiler etc is, otherwise what's the point in renting to have all the costs of home owning on top of the rent itself...
Genuine question by the way, not just some sarky comment...
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AndyKent
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Sorry, we don't leave cookers in place. If a tenant moves on they take it with them or we scrap it. If you move in you supply your own.
Same way as a fridge or washing machine. Repairing any consumer crap is a nightmare waiting to happen.
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Sam
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I find that very odd TBH Andy - in all my years of renting places in various forms I've never had to provide my own cooker...
Washing machines etc. yes but not cookers.
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AndyKent
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Standard practise across our 400-odd properties.
The cost of replacing/repairing stuff like that would be silly. Add the fact that if a cooker breaks it would be an emergency repair and we'd have to pay even more to get them sorted.
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Sam
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Fair enough. 
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Sam
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Update - it's working now
Guess it just needed to dry out?
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