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IANAL either but I think tenant in this case just means flat and is used to mean the different parties that make up the share of freehold (the landlord) rather than like a rental tenant.

We have 2 kids and the difficult other owner lives alone so we would have a majority that way anyway.

Thanks so much for your patience in helping me understand this. Our lack of understanding is causing a bit of stress.

Your reply is very reassuring although I'm slightly concerned now that by only giving you a snippet of that clause, I might have changed its meaning. Could I have one final question please and ask you to read the whole paragraph and confirm that my understanding is still correct:
So often as reasonably required to decorate the exterior of the Building in such a manner as shall be agreed by the majority of the tenants of the flats or failing agreement in the manner in which they were previously decorated or as near thereto as circumstances permit and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of this covenant) will paint the exterior parts of the Building usually painted with two coats at least of good quality paint at least once in every four years.

Btw, it's a south facing wall that hasn't been painted for almost 20 years.

Thanks again for your help!

Edit: I think that's the only place in the deed that it mentions a majority.

thanks very much for such a thorough reply!

the position that we are in is that we and one other flat are willing to pay for the work (external decoration) and it is the other owner who is threatening legal action.

if we went ahead with the work, would he have any comeback on us? the deed says that we are "required to decorate the exterior of the building in such a manner as shall be agreed by the majority...". do I understand this correctly that the 3rd owner (25%) doesn't need to agree to the work? his windows are in poor state so we have said we'd skip his frames if he didn't contribute so as not to be responsible for the condition (all the brickwork will be painted). Frankly we would paint his frames for the sake of an easy life.

the costs you mention are quite chilling! the decoration costs are much less than that. if he did take us to court, would we pay fees as individuals or would the freeholder have to pay (meaning we'd pay 50%)? is there any likelihood that he could have costs awarded so that we'd have to cover his share?

sorry I've come back with so many questions. I really appreciate your help so far.

yes, I think that's right. we have a deed of co-ownership which I am now reading for the first time in many years.

it says we can appoint a solicitor for mediation and, if that doesn't work, any of us can go to court "for a decision pursuant to section 14 of the trusts of land and appointment of trustees act 1996".

presumably that court is something very expensive that I'd want to avoid? does it have power to make decisions on any matter? could it appoint a management company if one or more of the owners wanted it?

We own a flat in a converted London terrace house with a share of the freehold. There are 2 other flats who also have a share (we have 50%). We have been having a problem getting any maintenance done on the building because one of the other owners keeps coming up with delaying and blocking tactics. I think it's just because he is skint.

There's a piece of work that we had all agreed to do but now it is time to start he has started delaying. Ourselves and the other normal flat are fed up and have decided to just go ahead and do the work ourselves and the other normal flat sent an agro email to that effect at the weekend.

It's all kicking off over email now and, amongst other nonsense, the delayer is threatening us with a tribunal for not maintaining the building (extreme lack of self awareness!). My question is - what sort of tribunal could he actually take us to? I thought tribunals were only for leasehold.

I wondered the same thing. the ranger seemed pretty convinced though. he seemed to think that anyone getting in the water was nuts.

yeah, we were briefly there a few weekends ago. after he had cut down the rope swing, the park ranger told us that the river is (usually, at least) very heavily polluted and there's a real risk of Weil's disease. doesn't seem to have put off the swimmers though.

what did they conclude about the low R number in London? Telegraph has a front page headline today saying there are fewer than 50 new daily cases in London.

there's mention of it in the guardian's ticker. 5% nationally but more than 10% in Madrid.

also spotted that UK government has approved an antibody test and is negotiating to buy millions of them so I guess we will soon find out what the prevalence is here.

I wonder if initially (but after year 6) they'll bring the kids back part time so that on any given day there are only about 40% in each year group and everyone does 2 days a week (or something like that).

i think that's why year 6 are going back first. they'll be trained up to teach the younger years.

Sunday's speculation was that year 6 would go back right after half term followed by, I think, A-level students.
I think that reception and year 3 should be first to go back.

Dumbbells have gone now. Would anyone like the hamax for £25?

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I've got a used Kamax Kiss child seat in green that's in decent used condition. £28

I have also uncovered a set of York vinyl dumbbells 4 * 2.5kg, 4 * 1.25gk, 1 * 10kg. £20

Collection from N16 only, please.

Photos to follow once I work out how...

i spent a morning calling back every 10 minutes. i got through eventually and got a refund with no quibbles. refund hasn't actually arrived yet though.

that's just England as well. will be a few more when they add the rest.

I managed to get a DT Swiss XR 331 working with 2 layers of orange seal tape yesterday. it didn't make a noise mounting but held pressure overnight with some sealant.

it was my 2nd go. first time I put tiny holes in the tape at the spoke holes by pressing the tape too firmly into the well. could hear the air coming out. 2nd time I didn't press it into the well.

I have the same rim in a factory wheel and it came with a metallic looking tape with "tubeless ready" printed on it. that one did make a loud pop and mounted very easily. you can buy DT brand tape. not sure who makes it.

tried just adding another layer of tape?

Was Rishi not brought in by Johnson and Cummings because Javid wouldn't do what he was told? The new spending plans sound very much like a Cummings plan.

I seem to remember reading that Dominic Raab would take over if Johnson was incapacitated. So let's wish him a speedy recovery! He says he is currently still in charge.

It's not "just" deaths either though. It would break all the health services if it was left unchecked.

ha!

I don't know how badly behaved people were in viccy park but surely it would be better to police it rather than shut it.

I'd be gutted if my local park was shut.

They have also recently added a cities/regions chart below it. New York and Madrid looking very bad. London is in the same state at this stage as Wuhan and Lombardia although it is maybe on a slightly slower trajectory right now (having started worse). Lombardia still bad more than 2 weeks "later" than us.

Thanks. I know what you mean but I am actually really relieved. It is an auntie who was in her 80s and the funeral would have been full of her friends of a similar age. And I have another auntie in her 80s who was making her way down from the hebrides for it. I would have hated to have gone along and made someone ill. Strange and sad new priorities that seep into everything now...

I was supposed to be going to a funeral on Thursday but it is now being live streamed instead.