Tenants and repairs

Use this guide to help you understand your repairs responsibilities as a tenant.

Repair timescales

The target time for the repair depends on its risk and urgency.

Emergency repairs

We will attend to make a repair safe within two hours and fix the repair within 24 hours when you report an emergency repair that:

  • is a risk to residents’ and visitors’ health and safety
  • may damage the building or security to your home.

These repairs could include making safe and repairing:

  • flooding that is damaging a property
  • gas escape
  • damage to your front door that makes your home insecure.

Emergency repairs that are not a risk to health will be repaired within one working day. These would include repairs to fix:

  • lift breakdown
  • total loss of electrical power
  • total loss of mains water supply.

Urgent repairs

We will attend within three working days, unless otherwise stated.

Non-urgent repairs

We will respond to non-urgent repairs within seven working days, unless otherwise stated.

Routine repairs

We will respond to a routine repair within 28 working days, unless otherwise stated.

Planned repairs

We will respond to a planned repair within 90 working days, unless otherwise stated.

For more details on what repairs fall into these categories, read the repairs manual on the first page.