Who is liable for the charge?

[moonlight]

I visited a property today, to repair a running overflow. The building has a roof space with twin cold storage tanks. 2 float valves, 1 overflow and connected in the middle. This supplies 3 flats. Who would you expect to be liable for bill or would you expect this to be covered by the building, Service charges? or would you expect the 3 flats to pay?

 

[Ric2013]

Wouldn't that depend on the nature of the contract between the occupants and the building management? And the ownership structure etc?

In terms of who is going to pay YOU, I'd suggest whoever calls you out should pay you if no one else comes forward first. The others may not have wanted you there or not wanted the work done at all or may have chosen another plumber instead, but if the customer called you off their own back, it's up to them to get the others to cough up.

 

[Last Plumber]

The person who asked you to do the work is responsible for paying you in my opinion.

 

[moonlight]

The person who called me is paying my bill no problem there. Further update to this question. The building manager had someone go in and say it was my persons tank as the float was under water. If they knew what they were doing they would see, one overflow, several expansion pipes over one tank and connected tanks. It turns out it was the float valve that was not under water that was the problem. I think some people should not be plumbers as they don't know what they are looking at.

 

[Stanios]

The person who called me is paying my bill no problem there. Further update to this question. The building manager had someone go in and say it was my persons tank as the float was under water. If they knew what they were doing they would see, one overflow, several expansion pipes over one tank and connected tanks. It turns out it was the float valve that was not under water that was the problem. I think some people should not be plumbers as they don't know what they are looking at.

So they sent someone else, paying for their time instead of using that money to pay for the actual job done. Great way of managing the payment / budget of leaseholders.