Repairs and maintenance - rental

• Tenant: maintenance and small repairs cleaning, ventilation, repairs what breaks

• Tenant: has the obligation to report problems

• Landlord: everything that breaks because of wear and age and big repairs (roof, stairs....)

Electric boiler NL: Centrale Verwarming

• Maintenance - the tenant

• The tenant covers the cost - every year

Chimney NL: schoorsteen

• Maintenance - the tenant

• The tenant covers the cost

Roof leaking

• Major repairs

• Landlord covers the cost

Clogged sink

Maintenance - tenant

Trimming the trees

Maintenance - tenant

Breaking something

• Tenant - repairs what breaks

• Reports the problem - doesn't fix it himself

A pipe bursts

• The landlord

• Wear and age

Problems

• Always report problems to your landlord

• Don't try and fix them yourself, it could cost you more

• Somebody with credentials needs to do it (a plumber, an electrician...)