We're currently renting a place with 2 bedrooms and 1.5 bath.
So, last week, my husband took a bath for the first time in the rental we've been living in for about 2 months. When I arrived home, there was water running down the walls of the dining room, which is under the upstairs bathroom. Messaged the landlord, cleaned up the water as we could, took pictures.
She came out, had a plumber come out, etc. Plumber said the damage had been happening for a while; said there was mold in the ceiling above the dining room. Brought in a industrial dehydrator, and told the land lord more work would need to happen. At this point, I felt bed for the landlord, because ouch, that has to cost a lot.
Stuff happened, and now our dining room is empty because there's a hole in the ceiling, they had to pull off the popcorn ceiling because of asbestos, an industrial fan and an industrial dehydrator are in there, and our upstairs bathroom has a toilet sitting in the bath tub, the floor's ripped up, the sink is ripped out, and apparently the toilet had been slowly leaking under the floor for a while. And it smells, and it also has it's own industrial fan and industrial dehydrator going.
Which leaves us with no shower or bath in our rental, and enough fans and dehydrators going that our house is too warm for our comfort (not to mention loud!), and I'm starting to get worried about what our electrical bill will be this month. We're the kind of people who don't turn on the a/c in summer, and keep the house in the mid-sixties in the winter, and I don't know how much money these things are pulling.
Would it be unreasonable to ask the landlord to cover some of the electrical bill? My husband also thinks we should think about asking her for compensation, as we're paying for a place with 1.5 bathrooms, and we only have a toilet and a sink in the downstairs right now. I know stuff happens, but at what point should we ask? Or should we just not?