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If you live in a flat and something has gone wrong with the water, the first question is not who can fix it. It is whose problem it is.
A meaningful number of the calls we get from apartment residents turn out to be things the building should be dealing with, at no cost to the leaseholder. We would rather tell you that than take the job.
Based in Two Mile Ash, around fifteen minutes away. Gas Safe registered, registration number 981362.
- Gas Safe registered 981362
- Around fifteen minutes from Two Mile Ash, plus parking
- We would rather tell you it is the building's than take the job
- Booked work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm
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Roughly where the line falls
Every lease is different, so this is a guide rather than an answer, and yours is the document that decides it.
Usually the building’s responsibility
- Communal risers, the vertical pipework serving multiple flats
- Communal cold water storage and any communal pumping
- Communal heating or hot water plant, where the block has it
- The structure, roof and external elements
- Anything serving more than one flat
Usually yours
- Everything inside your demise, meaning your flat
- Your own boiler or heat interface unit, where you have one
- Your own taps, showers, toilets, appliances and the pipework serving them
- Your own isolating valves
Frequently argued about
- Pipework running within a wall or floor between two flats
- The point where a communal riser branches into your flat
- Anything that has been altered by a previous occupier
What to do before paying anyone
- 1
Establish whether it affects more than one flat.
If your neighbours have the same problem, it is almost certainly communal
- 2
Check your lease
for the demise definition and the service charge schedule
- 3
Report it to the managing agent
and get a position in writing
- 4
Then call a plumber
if the answer is that it is yours
That sequence takes a day and can save a bill you were never liable for.
Escape of water, which is the exception
If water is actively coming in, do not wait for anyone to establish liability. Contain it, isolate what you can, and get it stopped. Sorting out who pays comes afterwards and is usually an insurance matter between two households and the building policy.
If it is coming from the flat above, contact them and the managing agent immediately. If nobody is home above, the agent may be able to gain access.
Our emergency page covers what to do in the meantime.
Two things worth knowing about apartment water
- Stored water, if your block has it. Some blocks feed flats from communal cold water storage rather than directly off the mains. If yours does, water quality and temperature in that storage is the building’s responsibility, and it is checked as part of the block’s own regime rather than by you. Worth knowing simply so you report the right thing to the right people.
- Isolating your own flat. You should have a valve that isolates your flat from the communal supply, usually in a service cupboard rather than under your sink. Find it before you need it, because in a flat the alternative is asking someone to shut off a riser serving your neighbours too.
What we do get called to here
Boiler and heat interface unit work within individual flats, subject to whatever the lease allows about alterations. See boiler repair.
Leaks inside the flat, traced properly, because in an apartment the ceiling below belongs to someone else. See leak detection and repair.
Unvented cylinders, common in apartments and frequently never serviced since the building was finished. See unvented cylinders.
Bathroom and kitchen plumbing, within the lease terms.
Hard water
Same Anglian Water supply as the rest of the city, around 300 mg/l of calcium carbonate against a UK average of 207. See our hard water guide.
Getting to Campbell Park
Around fifteen minutes from Two Mile Ash, plus parking. Tell us about access when you book.
Frequently asked questions
My neighbours have the same problem. Whose is it?
Almost certainly communal, which makes it the building’s rather than yours. Report it to the managing agent before paying anyone.
Water is coming through my ceiling. What first?
Contain it and get it stopped rather than waiting on liability. Contact the flat above and the managing agent immediately.
Is my boiler my responsibility?
Generally yes, if it is inside your flat and serves only you. Communal plant is the building’s.
Can I move my boiler?
Check the lease first. Many restrict alterations, and flue routing in a flat is constrained anyway.
Do you cover Central Milton Keynes?
Yes, along with Newlands, Willen, Woolstone, Springfield and Fishermead.
What we do in Campbell Park
Where we cover in Campbell Park
- Campbell Park
- Central Milton Keynes
- Newlands
- Willen
- Woolstone
- Springfield
- Fishermead
Get in touch
Call 07514 312117 or send a WhatsApp. Gas Safe registered 981362, CIPHE member, fully insured.