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Ridge Tiles Smashed Into Car
Hi Ridge tiles have flown of of our roof and have smashed the back window of our car on the drive - double whammy. Our current thoughts are to look at our insurance policies for house / car, contact them. Also considering options of contacting local repair men. I was wondering if anyone has some alternative advice, or…
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Roof damage question
We live in a bottom floor flat ( it's a house with 4 in a block ; so 2 houses on the first floor, 2 on the bottom floor) - not sure if 4 in a block is the correct technical term. Anyway, today's storm brought a big of damage and some of the slates have fallen off the roof. The neighbour above us came and spoke to us…
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MSE News: Flood alerts across the UK: Be prepared
"The Environment Agency has today issued 26 severe flood warnings - take action now to reduce the risk of serious damage ..." Read the full story: Flood alerts across the UK: Be prepared Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply. If you aren’t sure how it all works, read our New to…
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Ridge tiles come off and noise coming from chimney
Hoping someone can help me I have a few ridge tiles which have blown off with the storm, just waiting for someone to come round to look at it, but it's started raining now, should I be worried? Also, directly behind our gas fireplace there is a noise coming from the chimney, like a crackling sound, when I put the fire on…
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Converting carport to garage
Hi I own a detached property that has a double car port under my next door neighbours one floor apartment. It is fully enclosed with the exception of the front. What are the laws in England about me wanting a garage door on it? I haven't approached the subject with them yet but wondered if planning permission was required…
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my naighbours roof leaks into my bedroom
hi there my neighbours roof leaks into my bedroom, I contacted my insurance company and they said nothing to do with them . I contacted the neighbour and they in short told me to go away. please please please can you give me any advice :o
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who is responsible?
Hi all, I am having a loft conversion done that has just really started and was wondering if i were to get a bad leak into a current bedroom beneath the work, (for instance if it wasn't covered properly) is it my responsibility to repair it or the person doing the work as it's their job to cover it and surely make it water…
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Washing machine disaster
I live on the top floor of a three storey block of flats. My washing machine leaked so badly the other day that both flats below me were flooded. The flat immediately below me is in a very sodden state and the owner has no contents insurance ( neither do I ). Whilst I feel a moral responsibility to help this person pay…
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Hot water
Worester 24i boiler getting no hot water but heating ok red light keeps flashing 1 second any ideas
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Sewage Flood Insurance Claim
Just wondering if anyone know where I stand regards an insurance claim due to raw sewage flooding in to my garden & summer house. On the 16th May this year a main drain in the street collapsed & all the sewage from the town flooded in to my garden...24 hours of raw sewage pumping out, a lot of sewage, not just dirty water…
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Help with a University Project.
Hello I am a 4th year Product Design student at the University of Nottingham carrying out my final year project. The brief I have set myself is to design a product or piece of equipment that will be useful in a flooding situation, Whether is it from external sources like rivers or internal source such as a burst pipe or…
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Central Heating problem and question
My Danfoss control box has two settings - Water Only and Water/Heating. When on "Water/Heating the red light comes on on the control box and the boiler fires up. When on Water Only, the red light comes on on the control box but the boiler does not fire up and the boiler light does not illuminate. I am thinking that the…
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Sewage Flood Damage
Hi, can anyone help me? I have recently been the victim of a flood of sewage waste into my home. The property is a ground floor flat in a block of 12. As far as I know it was the only one affected. It's a new build - I moved in Autumn 2010. The builders have informally at least, acknowledged blame and have replaced all the…
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Loss assessor or loss adjustor?
Hi all, I'm new to this forum so excuse me if I get something wrong! My sister in law had a really bad flood recently and had to go through insurance companies and she used a loss assessor. I personally didnt know what a loss assessor and a loss adjustor did, to be honest I thought they were the same thing but they're not.…
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help! builders messed up driveway - what are my rights?
Hi After a lot of research, we finally got a new driveway to replace cracked up concrete/dried out front garden. We have some issues with this (old) house - small drive/front garden slopes back towards the house, nowhere to put a soakaway/no way of going into public drain - but we were determined to get the drive done in a…
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Potential gutter problems in a new build - advice sought please
Hi guys, If anybody can give me any help on this I'd be very grateful. I've been living in my new house for 2 months. It's a 3 story semi detached with the master bed on top floor. First potential problem In this time I've noticed by looking out of the velux window that there is nearly an inch of standing water in the…
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Dealing with Building Insurance Company after a flood
Dear All I have a little dilemna, I'm not sure what the next course of action should be. Would welcome suggestions. 8 months ago I noticed damp patches coming through the carpet of my living room floor which is a suspended concrete block/beam floor. I reported this to the building insurance (Halifax) who discovered a leak…
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Bathroom leak on a new build
Hi, Our house is 18 months old. On Saturday, my wife noticed a 50 cm long damp line on the living room ceiling, directly below the bathroom. Upon closer inspection after removing the bath panel, all underneath the bath is damp/wet. The wet has even seeped into our master bedroom which is next door to the bathroom, making…
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Help! Sorry long- severe water leak, HA property, need advice
Hi hoping this is the right place. We have had an ongoing problem with a water leak for nearly 1.5 years now on and off. We live in a newbuild housing association flat; however with all the damp and damage caused by this leak our flat now looks terrible and smells like a damp victorian cellar :mad:. Bit of background we…
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I've just flooded our downstairs neighbour..advice please!
While our water was turned off (by another neighbour), I accidentally turned our kitchen taps on and didn't properly turn them off and went out. When i got home it turned out we had flooded our downstairs neighbour, damage tbc. We rent so I called the letting agents who said that the neighbour should claim on their…
