Care home liability?
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Truckcab79
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Care home obviously unless you supplied bracket as suitable and the TV was too heavy for it.
bright_Spark
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I would suggest the residents as it is their TV.
FlyByNight
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A registered care home will not normally allow outsiders to do any work involving drilling into walls and it must be their employee or sub-con, so provided the bracket was suitable for the TV weight wise, responsibility should, in my opinion be down to the home. The operative should know teh wall construction and chosen suitable fixing.
We recently had to do this for my father-in-law - a family member dictated the position to the handyman and he then drillled, plugged and fitted.
We recently had to do this for my father-in-law - a family member dictated the position to the handyman and he then drillled, plugged and fitted.
bright_Spark
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How has it fallen off the wall. It may not have been the poor handyman’s fault. Perhaps the fastenings broke away from the tv due to a manufacturing problem.
Previoiusly: Occupant supplied a bracket, and their operative installed it and attached the occupant's previous TV to it. That TV ceased to work for some reason. Their operative removed the original bracket and previous TV. A smaller TV on a table to stand was used until the occupant could buy another.
Next: A new TV (this one) was then supplied by the occupant. Their operative had by then already lost the original bracket, and attached a different one to the wall that he "happened to have in store". He then attached the new TV to the replacement bracket.
The occupant's TV, and the business's bracket, installed by their operative, came off the wall and smashed on the floor. The bracket did not fail. The bracket-wall fixings failed;
FlyByNight
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It has to be teh Care Home's fault ... what fixings did he use?
CBE
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How it would normally work is that the care home just like a place of work, would not be insured for death/injury if they let anyone else install it that was either working for them or contracted someone with public liability insurance.
so that being said they likely installed it so would be entirely on their head to replace it.
so that being said they likely installed it so would be entirely on their head to replace it.
CBE
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Supplier is not liable for stoopid.