Providing Quality Housing
Painting and Decorating your home
What Painting and Decorating will the Consortium Maintenance Team do?
The Team will redecorate your home at least once every 5 years where it is agreed that the Consortium will do this. We will do this where the landlord has made this part of the tenancy agreement.
If you are unsure of this ask you Housing Support Coordinator to tell you whether the Consortium has been asked to decorate your home.
The Consortium has drawn up a plan for the next 5 years which lists when each property will be redecorated.
You can ask the Maintenance Manager to tell you when your house is due to be decorated next. He may change the plan if tenants need this, or new tenants move.
What will this re-decoration cost tenants?
Tenants pay for this painting and decorating as part of their Rent.
Tenants pay a Service Charge as part of their rent for ‘Internal Decorations and Repairs’. This charge is £13.46 per week per tenant, between April 2007 and March 2008.
Most tenants pay this charge with the Housing Benefit that they claim for their rent.
