Daft TikTok videos tell tenants how to get around ‘no decoration’ contract clauses

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TikTok videos watched by millions of people advising tenants to get around ‘no decoration’ clauses in rental contracts risk causing more headaches for landlords, according to trade professionals.

One ‘renter-friendly wallpaper hack’ suggests tenants should use painter’s tape, followed by double-sided tape in ladder formations on their walls to hang wallpaper. Toolstation reckons it’s the second wort DIY hack on the social media platform, despite gaining more than 43,000 likes.

It polled 100 professional painter and decorators, 82% of whom warned against it. Explains one: “If it is a rental and you can’t decorate, the painter’s tape and double-sided tape will leave ladder marks.

“The longer it is left up, the worse it will be. It is not a hack I would use. I would go back to the landlord and ask permission to paper a feature wall.”

Complete shower

Landlords might also want to check that tenants haven’t been watching a shower pressure video – along with 4.8 million others – that suggests removing a flow restrictor from a showerhead, but isn’t recommended by 65% of professionals.

One plumber and bathroom fitter warns: “Flow restrictors are in place for a reason – removal can cause temperature issues, especially in the case of combi boilers. I would say never remove them unless the manufacturer clearly states they can be removed entirely.”

Another water leak hack suggesting home DIYers place an epoxy ball into a pipe to stop a water leak has had more than a million views on TikTok, however 87% of professionals reckon they should leave well alone.

“I feel that will not work and for the UK you will be contaminating the water supply as you have introduced a foreign body into the water supply,” advises one plumbing and heating engineer.

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These landlords sold 75 BTL properties in less than 2 weeks with tenants still in situ

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There’s no doubt that now is the time to start downsizing our property portfolios. With many of us reaching our 50s and 60s, the property machines we built have become more of a financial burden than a financial gain. Taxes

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Licencing – Financial tsunami incoming?

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With Selective Licencing now coming to Birmingham I have been trying to get a grip on what this means financially by reading other landlords’ experiences/demands by councils to achieve certain requirements.

Has anyone managed to get a ball park figure of what it has cost them to ‘upgrade’

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Government swings behind heat pumps with £30m fund to install 5.5m by 2030

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The government will spend £30 million making British heat pumps this year as part of its bid to reduce demand for gas and address the current energy crisis.

A Heat Pump Investment Accelerator Competition is part of the UK Energy Security Strategy to ‘supercharge’ clean energy and expand nuclear, wind, solar, hydrogen, oil and gas, while supporting domestic oil and gas production in the short term.

It follows the announcement of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme last week, allowing landlords to claim £5,000 towards the cost of an air source heat pump.

The Heat Pump Association has welcomed the news after calling on Ministers to help strengthen the UK supply chain and remove barriers to installation.

Chair Phil Hurley (pictured) believes it has never been more important for heat pumps to be deployed at scale in UK homes. “We remain committed to collaborating with government and industry to make this happen,” says Hurley.

“Not only can heat pumps reduce carbon now but their benefits will increase over time as the grid continues to decarbonise.”

The government hopes to fit 5.5 million heat pumps in UK homes by 2030 with the aim of phasing out all gas boilers by 2035. However, the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering has previously warned that the infrastructure is not in place for wholesale adoption of low carbon heating and that 100,000 engineers trained to install the new technology are needed. 

The Energy Security Strategy published yesterday (7th April) includes an ambition to produce up to 50W from offshore wind by 2030, more than enough to power every home in the UK and also promises to look to increase the UK’s current 14GW of solar capacity by up to five times by 2035, by consulting on the rules for solar projects, particularly on domestic and commercial rooftops.

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