Now it's these sorts of questions that really make me loose my faith in humanity. And before I go anywhere with this, it is not a personal attack against you papercut2008uk, just my view on the whole "who can give me money" attitude of people.
You ask the question who is liable? Why on earth should someone else be liable, why don't you take the necessary precautions to protect yourself from power outages? There are options and alternative methods of power such as UPS or Generators to provide back up power. How about using Surge Protection sockets that will lessen the risk of damage to your electronics?
Why is it always someone else's fault, why do people take no responsibility?
The answer is simple: not everything is the responsibility of the person.
There is a problem of contract and engagement to provide services. I do not know about the U.K. system works but, at least in France, the energy providers are required by law and contracts to provide currents which voltage is 220 more or less 10%.
But this is a requirement that stops at the electrical power meter.
After that, it is the responsibility of the owner to ensure that the house electrical installation is properly built, respects the norms, ...
Regarding the power cuts, it depends on where the problems occurs.
- if this happens because of the house electrical installation, then this is the responsibility of the house owner, oneself or the landlord. Again, I do not know how the U.K. system works but if you rent a house, you cannot do certain works in the house without the owner agreement. Some other are required to be done by the person living in the house regardless of the ownership of the house.
- if this happens because of an obsolete electrical system bringing electricity, the company is responsible for this.
I remember when I was in London in 1995, a severe water shortage was occurring during the summer and a lot of people were angry at the private companies managing that because they did not do any work regarding leakage.
And apparently, it continued for quite some time: http://www.standard....rs-7182626.html. That was in 2005, I hope that they
we had a power cut recently, but nothing was damaged, but i'm just wondering, as i have read that you can claim for damage if anything is damaged in a power cut.
so if any of your electronics, say computer or monitor, are damaged due to a power cut, who is liable for the damage? who do you contact? what's the process??
My first reflex would be to check if you have an insurance contract and see what damage are covered.
Edited by Vykranth, 12 July 2013 - 09:30.