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  • Antisocial behaviour
  • Repairs and maintenance
    • Repairs responsibilities
    • Report a repair
    • New build repairs during defect period
    • Emergency repairs
    • How to guides on repairs and looking after your home
    • Planned maintenance
    • Making improvements to your home
    • Near miss reporting
    • Stock condition surveys of your home
    • Contractors' code of conduct
    • Getting connected – Project Gigabit
  • Rent and service charges
  • Advice and support
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  • Managing your tenancy
  • Looking after your home
  • Moving home
  • Cleaning and grounds maintenance
  • Customer Involvement
  • Disability aids and adaptations
  • Car parking
  • Right to Buy and Right to Acquire
  • Brent Coefficient tenants
  • Customer policies

Hear from our Repairs team, as they take you through some tips on looking after your home in our videos below

Finding and using your fusebox

Finding and using your stopcock

Changing lightbulbs

Preventing damp, mould and condensation

Bleeding a radiator

 

 

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