Our Responsibilities
We have legal duties to repair and maintain your home. We will:
• Keep the structure and outside of your home in good condition.
• Repair fixtures and fittings inside your home, for example heating systems, bathroom fittings, kitchen units and doors.
• Make sure you receive gas, electricity and water into your home and that waste is taken away properly.
• Repair any shared areas that form part of your home, for example, staircases and shared entrances.
We will do this through our day-to-day repair service and our long-term planned maintenance and improvement programme.
Your Responsibilities
You are responsible for your own minor repair work. Examples of the things you are responsible for are:
• Fences, gates and gate latches.
• Decorating the inside of your home.
• Changing any locks if you lose your keys or have them stolen.
• General fixtures and fittings such as:
- Refix/renew w/c seat
- Renew plug and chain
- Cylinder jackets
- Internal door handles and latches
- Cupboard door handles and catches
- Clothes line hooks and clothes posts
- Fluorescent tubes and starters
- Light bulbs including outside lights
- Smoke alarm batteries
- Fill nail holes and minor decorative cracks in walls and ceilings
- Grouting wall tiles
- Clear blocked gulley grate
• Plumbing in your washing machine and connecting your cooker.
• Your own fixtures and fittings.
If you employ trades people, please ensure they are suitably qualified and registered with the appropriate governing bodies.
For further information please contact your local 
2010 Rotherham Ltd Neighbourhood Office.
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