Urgent Repairs
Urgent repairs relate to essential services at your rental property that have stopped working outside of normal business hours and cannot wait until the next available working day to be attended to.
These include:
Water: (please first check TasWater for interruptions to services in your local area – CLICK HERE) The water service no longer supplies to or removes from the property the same amount of water it would be capable of supplying or removing if it were fully functional.
Sewage or grey water overflow: All water (kitchens, bathrooms and laundries) at the property required to be removed or treated is no longer able to be safely removed or safely treated within a timeframe that it should be able to remove or treat water if it were fully functioning.
Electricity: (please first check TasNetworks for interruptions to services in your local area – CLICK HERE):
All power points or wires between the walls or in the property’s ceiling are no longer safe or supply electricity. The exception is where power points are noted on the ingoing condition report as not working.
The electricity-generating device no longer safely produces and supplies electricity to the same level it should reasonably produce and supply.
Heating: The primary heating source no longer provides heat at the same level it was reasonably capable of providing when it was made.
Cooking: At least half of the stoves heating elements, or the oven, no longer function.
Hot water service: The same amount of hot water at the same temperature is no longer provided by the hot water service as when it was manufactured.
Urgent repairs relate to essential services at your rental property that have stopped working outside of normal business hours and cannot wait until the next available working day to be attended to.
These include:
Water: (please first check TasWater for interruptions to services in your local area – CLICK HERE) The water service no longer supplies to or removes from the property the same amount of water it would be capable of supplying or removing if it were fully functional.
Sewage or grey water overflow: All water (kitchens, bathrooms and laundries) at the property required to be removed or treated is no longer able to be safely removed or safely treated within a timeframe that it should be able to remove or treat water if it were fully functioning.
Electricity: (please first check TasNetworks for interruptions to services in your local area – CLICK HERE):
All power points or wires between the walls or in the property’s ceiling are no longer safe or supply electricity. The exception is where power points are noted on the ingoing condition report as not working.
The electricity-generating device no longer safely produces and supplies electricity to the same level it should reasonably produce and supply.
Heating: The primary heating source no longer provides heat at the same level it was reasonably capable of providing when it was made.
Cooking: At least half of the stoves heating elements, or the oven, no longer function.
Hot water service: The same amount of hot water at the same temperature is no longer provided by the hot water service as when it was manufactured.
Please ensure that any urgent repair required after hours meets the above definitions before you contact the nominated repairer directly or you may be liable for the cost.
Please see below the nominated after-hours repairers servicing your local area:
