As a leaseholder, you are responsible for keeping the inside of your flat in a reasonable condition and not doing anything or allowing anyone living with you, renting or leasing your property or visiting you to do something resulting in damage to the flat or building. You have a duty to report damage or faults you find in the building to your landlord.
Repairs to the inside your flat include:
- window glass
- partition walls (not load bearing) and ceiling plaster
- floor boards and concrete floor coverings
- internal doors
- plumbing and electrics servicing your flat only
- water tanks serving your flat only
- individual heating systems
- all fixtures and fittings
- timber fences in your garden - not party fence walls.
You're also required to keep the property in a generally good decorative repair internally.
As a leaseholder you will have to pay your share of the costs of these works as indicated in your lease.
This includes:
- the roof
- external walls
- internal supporting walls
- joists, beams and lintels
- external doors and frames
- window frames
- guttering, down pipes and soil stacks
- drains (serving the whole building)
- lifts
- booster and pit pumps
- alarms
- TV aerials
- communal heating systems
- external lighting
- entrance lobbies and stairways (communal)
- roads and paths
- gardens (communal).