Good day everyone, new joiner here, just seeking advice if these wooden floorboard damages are under wear and tear or should the tenants have it repaired? The scratches are not deep but got through the floorboard finish. Cheers
If you ever find a tenant who looks after a property like (or better than) you would, hold on to them or send them my way It will be classed as fair wear Ours are 8 years old, only a gum polish/finish, not polyurethane They have endured the 4 kids and granddaughter sitting at the kitchen table in that time Fair wear my A Usually a lack of cleaning and being too lazy to lift a chair causes this sort of damage
I would also say fair wear and tear. To put it another way, is it something that you think a reasonable future tenant would expect to have rectified before accepting the property?
That flooring has been well taken care of. The tenant has Thanks for your input, and that is a well maintaned floorboard, looks really nice too
Thanks Swept every day (sometimes twice), mopped 2-3 times a week, polished once a fortnight. Keeping a floor nice takes effort who would have thought It's little wonder marks like yours occur in a tenanted property We had timber look/pattern tiles installed to our last IP, has a great look, easy maintenance, very hard wearing
Timber look vinyl is great for tenanted property. Few tenants will look after real timber well and would drop their jaw if some knew what it cost. And then there is cheap laminate flooring which may wear very badly with a thin wear layer at best. Heels can be a floor killer too. They will take time to clean up spills and leaks and put a tub with ice on a floor or spill a glass of wine etc and the damage will be done before they notice. Cat and dog "accidents" too.
As far as I can remember these are thin laminates haha did not know they wear like this, shouldve opted for vinyl
Vinyl can be overlaid onto laminate timber if its clean and smooth But if water penetrates its not good.
It was a somewhat rhetorical question but the answer was no. I cant see anyone declining the property based on the wooden floors being scratched. Its almost an expectation. A large patch of stained carpet in a prominent position or badley rotten floor boards would be a different story. Scratched floorboards not so much.
