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Sketchy Building Work
LudaMusser
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This is`nt really a problem for me as I rent but I just wanted to share this with you and I guess it shows why you should research builders and their previous work!
I moved into my rented apartment in November 2008. It`s a top floor apartment in a Victorian terraced house. The second the estate agent walked through the communal hallway door she said that the hallway was in the process of being redecorated. This was obvious as one wall had just been plastered and the other wall had the wallpaper removed. It turns out 'in the process' meant two years
Just before christmas, so over two years later, three painters and decorators arrived and spent two weeks painting the hallway. There was a fairly large section on the first floor staircase where the plaster had crumbled due to damp. Over the next few wks I would sometimes see the guys at work. I noticed that they had removed all the damaged plaster, there was also a section on the second floor staircase that they were sorting and removing. One day I came home and they were gone, to be fair everything looked mint but I wondered to myself how they dealed with the damp problem. Well it now turns out they did`nt, all they did was plaster over it, wallpaper then paint. About a month ago I noticed some kind of black area appear where the damp had been and now its appeared on the floor below in the exact same area where the damaged plaster was
I just feel sorry for the two people in the block that own properties because they have clearly been mugged by some cowboys. You can`t cover a damp problem with paint!
:eek:
I moved into my rented apartment in November 2008. It`s a top floor apartment in a Victorian terraced house. The second the estate agent walked through the communal hallway door she said that the hallway was in the process of being redecorated. This was obvious as one wall had just been plastered and the other wall had the wallpaper removed. It turns out 'in the process' meant two years
Just before christmas, so over two years later, three painters and decorators arrived and spent two weeks painting the hallway. There was a fairly large section on the first floor staircase where the plaster had crumbled due to damp. Over the next few wks I would sometimes see the guys at work. I noticed that they had removed all the damaged plaster, there was also a section on the second floor staircase that they were sorting and removing. One day I came home and they were gone, to be fair everything looked mint but I wondered to myself how they dealed with the damp problem. Well it now turns out they did`nt, all they did was plaster over it, wallpaper then paint. About a month ago I noticed some kind of black area appear where the damp had been and now its appeared on the floor below in the exact same area where the damaged plaster was
I just feel sorry for the two people in the block that own properties because they have clearly been mugged by some cowboys. You can`t cover a damp problem with paint!
:eek:
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