Damp

[andrewducker]

The specialist* came around, told me that the people who fucked up my flat are a bunch of monkeys**, that they did an incompetent job in the room they "fixed", and completely ignored the other room. He says there's about four days of work needed to fix all of this (lots of joists need to be ripped/replaced).

I phoned the loss adjuster, who was sceptical. I'll be forwarding the report as soon as I get it on Monday. Hopefully it will make the case for me. We will see what comes out of it. But I intend to be a lot more proactive about sorting this out than I was a year ago, and I don't intend to have the previous lot of people back in if I have any say in the matter.

*You could tell he was a specialist because he knew the latin name for the kind of wet-rot growing on the floorboards.

**Well, he told me that his firm get a chunk of business from clearing up this other firm's messes.

Comments

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Did the guy tell you the cause or was it the same cause as last time, they just never fixed it in the first place?

[andrewducker]

Aaah, apparently the problem is that a 4-foot thick wall made of rubble holds water for a _very_ long time, and thus stuff just hasn't dried out. Not helped by them painting over it while it's still holding a lot of water, so there's nowhere for the water to go.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Tonight I shall raise a toast to cowboy builders and all who pay good money to have them knee-capped ;)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

You live in Edinburgh don't you?

Friend of mine who lives in Portabello has a damp problem. Insurance company sent their people out to fix it. A year later, damp problem came back, different company came to look at it, and said, yep, the last lot were cowboys, most of our business is cleaning up after them.

I wonder if it is the same bunch.