The difference between lawnmowers and toasters?
10:40 AM, 31st October 2016, 10 years ago
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I have been advised not to supply any gardening equipment, including lawmowers, on health and safety grounds.
We would be liable if the tenants hurt themselves on equipment we have supplied. Does everyone think this is correct? But what about cookers, kettles, toasters etc.
If those health and safety grounds apply, shouldn’t kitchen equipment also be banned? The tenant could burn themselves?
Jennifer
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10:46 PM, 2nd November 2016, About 10 years ago
Consider a hand powered mowing machine such as
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/handy-thhm-push-cylinder-lawnmower/?da=1&TC=GS-030113012&gclid=CKjzwJCSi9ACFVW7GwodCgwALA
Very few tenants expect that they will need to buy a lawn mower and having a massively overgrown garden can be expensive to clear and may permanently ruin it.
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5:09 PM, 6th November 2016, About 10 years ago
Why don’t you sell the mower to the tenant for a nominal sum n hv him sign the receipt ?
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1:36 PM, 30th November 2016, About 10 years ago
Reply to the comment left by “Paul Franklin” at “01/11/2016 – 14:55“:
I am a qualified PAT tester and it would need to be a very small portable fridge to come under the equipment testing regs (like the ones you sometimes get in B&Bs that hold a few cans).