Soldato
- Joined
- 25 Apr 2010
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- Ipswich
So this began some time ago with damp forming on a wall in my mothers room and in my room.
The room she is in leads onto a kitchen which is on the opposite wall in the apartment next door. My inside wall is an outside wall that has pipes which go through the outer brick wall where water flows as it rains.
We have known through owning our own house in the past to control damp via controlling house temps and through ventilating adequately.
He has said a few times to my mother when I've not been around that she is to do what she already does to stop the damp from forming. We do this anyway so he then said he will be contracting someone ( obviously someone he knows) to do work on the damp and repair the walls.
This sort of thing should be on the Landlord not the the client unless the client is absolutely responsible for which we are definitely not.
So who wants to see the work they did? because I tell you all they did was buy some paint and paint over the wall the damp is still there behind it and I watched as he did it. maybe half hour of work over 3 days of him coming 10 mins each time. I have no gripes with the workman but right now my feelings make me want to react to this landlord in a very violent way
Look at this, the damp will just come back and I know I have used this exact same treatment before. This is extortion plain and simple, He has also decided that a switch for an extractor that sits on top of a door that neither me or my mother have ever known about or used is broken and is also trying to charge £145 for that ( replaced a fuse ) for all we know it could have been broken ever since we moved in.
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I ask you guys because I honestly don't know what to do right now on the one side we have solicitors who just want to make money off us and we could loose in court based on the way a judge feels on the day.
Im at a tether right now.
The room she is in leads onto a kitchen which is on the opposite wall in the apartment next door. My inside wall is an outside wall that has pipes which go through the outer brick wall where water flows as it rains.
We have known through owning our own house in the past to control damp via controlling house temps and through ventilating adequately.
He has said a few times to my mother when I've not been around that she is to do what she already does to stop the damp from forming. We do this anyway so he then said he will be contracting someone ( obviously someone he knows) to do work on the damp and repair the walls.
This sort of thing should be on the Landlord not the the client unless the client is absolutely responsible for which we are definitely not.
So who wants to see the work they did? because I tell you all they did was buy some paint and paint over the wall the damp is still there behind it and I watched as he did it. maybe half hour of work over 3 days of him coming 10 mins each time. I have no gripes with the workman but right now my feelings make me want to react to this landlord in a very violent way
Look at this, the damp will just come back and I know I have used this exact same treatment before. This is extortion plain and simple, He has also decided that a switch for an extractor that sits on top of a door that neither me or my mother have ever known about or used is broken and is also trying to charge £145 for that ( replaced a fuse ) for all we know it could have been broken ever since we moved in.
http://i39.tinypic.com/iml7p5.jpg
Resize image please.
I ask you guys because I honestly don't know what to do right now on the one side we have solicitors who just want to make money off us and we could loose in court based on the way a judge feels on the day.
Im at a tether right now.
