Recent content by Dace

Ive had a bathroom installer ask for some upfront before for materials, and it was ok. I googled, that some pay a deposit? How do I know when it's a scam or not? But yeah seems riskier with no prescence of the company.

Any idea how to check if someone's public liability insurance is real? I have a new kid, my intuition says he is good, but no ltd company, and hes trying to charge 50% upfront. I can't find anybody else at short notice, he seems knowledgeable though. I am unlikely to gaina ccess without proven...

The roofers have to phone her first, they need scaffolding on her side too. this psychotic **** tried to force the previous roofer to sign a legal document to have scaffoldong on her side last time plus she had a disgusting attitude. he charged me thousands of pounds extra to deal with her...

Lol. Yeah I know, the bigest problem is hes new, so a bit risky. Isn't busy, because he's new. Can we all agree that estimates are at least not inherently risky then? I'm not used to them, only had one once before from a really bad cowboy so maybe I am biased.

I'm in a desperate situation and am trying to get someone at short notice, was considering a recommendation of a recommendation. Although he seemed knowledgeable, he only has a 1 month prescence on a fbook page. Roof is leaking though and the next tradesman is going to take 1 month longer! I...

Im not sure how that offends anyone but her. The person that should have given me a party wall agreement, but instead cost me thousands of pounds, potentially tens of thousands depending on how the sale is affected. This person, who should be paying for their travesty now has the gall to try...

Thanks for letting me know about the other stuff. Cheapest quote from 5 roofers has been £1500, 1 days work, scaffolding needed both sides and tiles pulled up on either side. The problem is I have to choose between paying at my expense or sueing. I need more info to decide. I suspect the ****...

It started leaking again just as was going to sell, and sale fell through... unbelievable. Any idea how I can mitigate water damage inside temporarily. Does leaving a coupl;e windows open and heating help at all. Thanks

My local old roofer said that his ****ty bodge job is potentially dangerous, ie. tiles flying off, so I could try dangerous buildings reporting.

It's a private property though, can the council really still do something about it? I cant find any information on this. Thankyou. Its almost impossible to contact anyone at my council atm, I will try again most of today and tomorrow though.

Right, so at parents house we have these annoying ceiling lights that die allll the time! Have heard that with this type of light there can be a common problem. I wonder if in some cases like ours there is an underlying electrical problem. Anyway a few months back I found out that they had all...

My old roofer said thats the wrong bonding gutter that was used and I am in danger of my tiles flying away in the wind... is he exagerating? Right I may lose even more money by auctioning. Ill wait for a buyers survey on the roof maybe heheheheh. I know I from what Woody said that I can force...

Oh. The guy was only there for a couple hours and I got this done without scaffolding. Hope it holds, sadly there is a chance I will not sell this house and have to deal with it, depending on if I get gazzundered etc.

Any idea why its not leaking on neighbours side btw?

Roofers dont seem to let me use my own scaffolding company also this is the layout: thats old scaffolding on google earths latest photo btw, disaster that her court isnt accesible right next to the wall.