Airbnb owner claims holiday makers running cables out the window is theft if electricity.

  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukM
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s about the scale of things. I have actually seen properties that ask electric car owners notify them, and charge if they use an excessive amount.

    Charging your phone, you’d probably struggle to use more than 10p of electricity over a week’s stay.

    If I have a 30KWh battery in my car, and charge half of it a night for 6 nights, that’s £30 in electric.
    It’s possibly not theft, more akin to leaving the oven on constantly, but it’s cheeky as fuck to do it without checking first.

    Additionally, a property that hasn’t ever considered electric car charging may not have electrics that stand up to hours of 3KW+ draw on top of the base load.

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      1 year ago

      Technically though they’re paying for the use of the property which presumably also includes electricity use. Legally I’m not sure where the line is drawn, presumably there is some kind of fair use usage clause but I’m not sure where that would be.