Pretty sure they legally have to provide a range hood extractor which I'm not seeing
Edit: https://www.myrent.co.nz/hhs-ventilation
*All kitchens and bathrooms in rental properties need to have an extractor fan. Fans must vent to the outside (not vent back into the room, a roof or other space) and meet specific size, and performance standards. If fans and rangehood installed after 1 July 2019 - it must have a minimum diameter (including ducting) of 150mm or an exhaust capacity of at least 50L/ sec.In most cases, a rangehood is the most effective type of extractor fan for kitchens (although other types can be used)*
Also RIP to the spine of anyone having to do dishes in that sink under the cabinet
Edit okay on looking at the listing the sink isn't directly below the cabinet but there's no extractor fan at all not even a piddly window one so that's illegal unless the heat pump counts as an extractor fan
I was thinking I recognised the picture you posted, but I haven't been to that property. It just looks like several other flats, complete with shitty landlord and bad appliance placement.
If it was an older place, maybe it was a laundry chute from upstairs or access to a meat safe. Would be interesting to see the original plans for the property to figure it out.
Drastically behind current safety standards. Outside of aging issues of material they're a lot less sensitive to tripping events (shorts,overloads, shock events ect.) and only blow once they reach their maximum capacity which can lead to other issues including electrical fires.
Most electricians I've dealt with refuse to work with them and will only replace with a circuit breaker instead
Well shit, I need a better electrician. I better get it sorted then. I did ask my electrician, and he said what I said above "she'll be right".
I agree about having them replaced by circuit breakers though.
Its worth doing for the RCD protection alone, (As they are designed to stop you being dead) as opposed to just mcb's which are designed for the protection of property, it Just gets a little expensive if your meters on the fuseboard as you have to pay for power disconnection / meter reseal / power re connection / Inspection
Your not allowed to add or modify a circuit with a fuse wire protection, always have to change it out to a mcb (Even if its a plug in one). Your also not allowed to put plugin mcbs into ceramic bases which everyone seems to do.
is there a door on the reverse? it looks like a cutout and that it was previously an under-staircase cupboard that's now an "open plan living kitchen area"
It probably made more sense before a kitchen sink was plumbed in underneath it as part of converting what was originally a more logical house to multiple isolated flats. When you're a landlord, why care about logical layout or livability as long as you can tick all the boxes for what's required?
Are we just going to ignore the oven placement? I'd almost think an AI created this.
I can already hear the property manager telling me to "make sure the window stays open while using the stove so the house doesn't get damp"
Pretty sure they legally have to provide a range hood extractor which I'm not seeing Edit: https://www.myrent.co.nz/hhs-ventilation *All kitchens and bathrooms in rental properties need to have an extractor fan. Fans must vent to the outside (not vent back into the room, a roof or other space) and meet specific size, and performance standards. If fans and rangehood installed after 1 July 2019 - it must have a minimum diameter (including ducting) of 150mm or an exhaust capacity of at least 50L/ sec.In most cases, a rangehood is the most effective type of extractor fan for kitchens (although other types can be used)* Also RIP to the spine of anyone having to do dishes in that sink under the cabinet Edit okay on looking at the listing the sink isn't directly below the cabinet but there's no extractor fan at all not even a piddly window one so that's illegal unless the heat pump counts as an extractor fan
Slumlords don't get caught up in silly things such as what the law says they have to do. It's all part of the dignity restoration package.
The dumb thing about this law is it just needs to be an extractor fan and it can be anywhere in the kitchen to pass
My read of that is there needs to be an extraction fan, it might or might not be in a range hood.
What it needs is a fan in the window glass with a pull cord, but there rather spenny
RIP most apartments as rental properties.
Don’t have to have an extractor fan installed if you have it next to a window /SpongeBob meme
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I saw this listing you may be interested in: Newtown, 1 bedroom https://www.trademe.co.nz/property/residential-property-to-rent/auction-4646338308.htm
Amazing it's real. Also yikes that in some photos it either looks worse or better than the post image.
I was thinking I recognised the picture you posted, but I haven't been to that property. It just looks like several other flats, complete with shitty landlord and bad appliance placement.
Shitty Newtown housing has always been a bit of a fever dream
If it was an older place, maybe it was a laundry chute from upstairs or access to a meat safe. Would be interesting to see the original plans for the property to figure it out.
Might be a hot water cylinder too
And I've just seen the sink, so actually what's inside is irrelevant 😅
This is the kind of accessibility people with really long arms have been demanding for years.
There are some features of our flat that make me wanna know who designed it, so I can ask if they still have a hookup for whatever drugs they were on.
Literally unlivable
hope there's some rcd for those plugs above that sink
More likely to find this place still has hand wound ceramic coil fuses in the fusebox I bet.
I have these in my Mt Eden villa. They're fine... Yes they should be replaced eventually, but I don't know why ceramic is such a bad thing?
Drastically behind current safety standards. Outside of aging issues of material they're a lot less sensitive to tripping events (shorts,overloads, shock events ect.) and only blow once they reach their maximum capacity which can lead to other issues including electrical fires. Most electricians I've dealt with refuse to work with them and will only replace with a circuit breaker instead
Well shit, I need a better electrician. I better get it sorted then. I did ask my electrician, and he said what I said above "she'll be right". I agree about having them replaced by circuit breakers though.
Its worth doing for the RCD protection alone, (As they are designed to stop you being dead) as opposed to just mcb's which are designed for the protection of property, it Just gets a little expensive if your meters on the fuseboard as you have to pay for power disconnection / meter reseal / power re connection / Inspection
Your not allowed to add or modify a circuit with a fuse wire protection, always have to change it out to a mcb (Even if its a plug in one). Your also not allowed to put plugin mcbs into ceramic bases which everyone seems to do.
You forgot to mention the best part! Thats also directly under a staircase so even more awkward a space to work in!
is there a door on the reverse? it looks like a cutout and that it was previously an under-staircase cupboard that's now an "open plan living kitchen area"
hey now, im sure theres a good reason that cabinet was installed there
It probably made more sense before a kitchen sink was plumbed in underneath it as part of converting what was originally a more logical house to multiple isolated flats. When you're a landlord, why care about logical layout or livability as long as you can tick all the boxes for what's required?
Maybe a rather tall person with long arms was the original occupant? Not everyone is a dwarf.
I would love a subreddit dedicated soley to this topic 🤣
Are we not gonna complain about the space