Repairs charter

Our repairs charter was developed with our residents, it sets out what you should expect from our contractors when they visit you to carry out repairs, and how we ensure you feel safe in your homes.

Safety

Our contractors will:

  • Guarantee staff, workers and sub-contractors are suitably skilled and competent.
  • Always follow health and safety procedures and never put anyone at risk.
  • Guarantee particular care is given when children are present, and never enter a resident's home or continue working, where children (under the age of 16) are unaccompanied.
  • Provide additional help and show extra consideration to elderly residents, or anyone with special requirements.

Consideration and standards of behaviour in your home and neighbourhood

Our contractors will:

  • Always let you know if they're going to be late for an appointment with a revised estimated time of arrival.
  • Always have shoe covers.
  • Always carry a photo id card and show it to you when they arrive at your home.
  • Be professional, polite and courteous at all times.
  • Respect your homes and belongings.
  • Respect your knowledge of your home.
  • Communicate effectively the works to be completed.
  • Not use offensive language or behave in an improper manner.
  • Try to minimise noise and disruption.
  • Never smoke or vape in your home, or directly outside your doors/open windows.
  • Never use your electricity, toilet or washing facilities without your permission.
  • Never play music when working in or around your home, without your permission.
  • Drive and park considerately at all times, leaving contact details visible if using a resident's bay.
  • Be properly dressed at all times in clean company uniform.
  • Give notice if electricity will be turned off even for short periods of time and check whether doing this may impact on a residents health.

Clean and tidy

Our contractors will:

  • Leave your homes and communal areas secure and clean & tidy.
  • Protect flooring using clean dust sheets where necessary.
  • Never leave tools and/or materials overnight in residents' homes without their permission (and at contractor's own risk).
  • Remove or recycle all waste materials on the same day and remove from site- not using your bins or the communal bins.

Responsibility

Our contractors will:

  • Communicate only with the resident or their officially appointed representative.
  • Guarantee that all information concerning residents is kept strictly confidential at all times, and is only used in accordance with data protection principles.
  • Monitor levels of customer satisfaction and aim to resolve any complaints within ten working days.
  • Listen to residents' feedback and take resident comments on board where possible, to improve the overall service.
  • Let our customer service centre know (as soon as possible) if you're not going to be in for your appointment.
  • Let our customer service centre know if the contractor doesn't turn up as arranged.
  • Always have your job number when you contact us.
  • Make sure the area to be worked in is cleared.
  • Keep children away from where the work is being done.
  • Keep pets in another room if possible.
  • Give us feedback (both good and bad) so we can improve the service delivered.

What you can do to help:

  • Let our customer service centre know (as soon as possible) if you're not going to be in for your appointment.
  • Let our customer service centre know if the contractor doesn't turn up as arranged.
  • Always have your job number when you contact us.
  • Make sure the area to be worked in is cleared.
  • Keep children away from where the work is being done.
  • Keep pets in another room if possible.
  • Give us feedback (both good and bad) so we can improve the service delivered.

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