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advice on next steps please - daughter's shoes damaged
whisper7832
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Hi All, I'm not sure where I can post this dilemna. If it's the wrong place please can someone move it.
I'm a tenant and the landlady recently had some work done to the kitchen and my son's bedroom because of water leaking from the flat upstairs.
The insurance company contracted the work out to a firm of builders who then gave the work on to some builders. They've been turning up at 8am but myself and the landlady specified that as I had young children and the school run that it had to be 9am or after starts. No doubt some of the builders thought I was a cow because I wouldn't let them in before 8.40am.
to cut a long story short after they'd gone (friday) I discovered that my two year old daughters shoes had had their straps cut. Both shoes of one pair (four straps total) and I could only find one of her sandals and that had had the strap cut. They were done with a sharp object - possibly a knife? No-one else can get into my back garden as the garden backs onto 3 other gardens and the only way to get to it is through my son's bedroom. The builders were doing work in there and were out in the back.
It's odd that it was just the shoes - we have a trampoline and an inflatable paddling pool out back as well as tonnes of other bits and bats.
I called their boss who said he would come out on monday. yesterday one of his workers said he would be coming out today. i called him and he said he doesn't believe it's any of his men, that he'd spoken to my landlady and the insurance people and that I should go to the police. I told him I would have gone on friday if he'd said he didn't want to deal with it himself - he said he had the right to change his mind.
So, is there any point in going to the police? As I don't know which of the sad builders it was. It's just sick that someone would do that to kids shoes.
I've spoken to my landlady - I'd told her of this on Friday too but she doesn't know what to do.
Stupid me should have just gone straight to the law on Friday.
Thanks in advance
I'm a tenant and the landlady recently had some work done to the kitchen and my son's bedroom because of water leaking from the flat upstairs.
The insurance company contracted the work out to a firm of builders who then gave the work on to some builders. They've been turning up at 8am but myself and the landlady specified that as I had young children and the school run that it had to be 9am or after starts. No doubt some of the builders thought I was a cow because I wouldn't let them in before 8.40am.
to cut a long story short after they'd gone (friday) I discovered that my two year old daughters shoes had had their straps cut. Both shoes of one pair (four straps total) and I could only find one of her sandals and that had had the strap cut. They were done with a sharp object - possibly a knife? No-one else can get into my back garden as the garden backs onto 3 other gardens and the only way to get to it is through my son's bedroom. The builders were doing work in there and were out in the back.
It's odd that it was just the shoes - we have a trampoline and an inflatable paddling pool out back as well as tonnes of other bits and bats.
I called their boss who said he would come out on monday. yesterday one of his workers said he would be coming out today. i called him and he said he doesn't believe it's any of his men, that he'd spoken to my landlady and the insurance people and that I should go to the police. I told him I would have gone on friday if he'd said he didn't want to deal with it himself - he said he had the right to change his mind.
So, is there any point in going to the police? As I don't know which of the sad builders it was. It's just sick that someone would do that to kids shoes.
I've spoken to my landlady - I'd told her of this on Friday too but she doesn't know what to do.
Stupid me should have just gone straight to the law on Friday.
Thanks in advance
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tell the boss that if it's not sorted out by the weekend you'll be going to the police0
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