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NCISROCKS

alistair.long wrote: »

it would appear you are entitled to some compensation but it will not be much.
Why?
If it was a cold day, and the heat was going out the door, then how much monies worth of heat did you pay extra for?
It was a window not a door.
Did anyone become ill? remember you should have more then 1 door, and you should have a heating source. 1 door on the room also.
Que??
or did anyone get hurt from the glass or stone and see a doc?
..aye right..I think that might have been mentioned by OP if any of it had happened.
as for the money that was going to be paid back to you because there was no call out, that would get left off the bill so the councill would have less to pay. You dont get that.

...and why would anyone expect that?

arcon5

alistair.long wrote: »

it would appear you are entitled to some compensation but it will not be much.
The right to be compensated for the damaged window -- which she has.

If it was a cold day, and the heat was going out the door, then how much monies worth of heat did you pay extra for?
If that was the case, why would anybody with half a brain cell leave the heating on!?

Did anyone become ill? remember you should have more then 1 door, and you should have a heating source. 1 door on the room also.
Are you for real?

or did anyone get hurt from the glass or stone and see a doc?
Again.. are you for real?
I'm sure this would have been a completely type of thread if that was the case.

as for the money that was going to be paid back to you because there was no call out, that would get left off the bill so the councill would have less to pay. You dont get that.

Stop looking for incidents that didn't happen.

cheesymax

Halibut, I appreciate your post for trying to clear up, the "legal" side of this.

However, no one has explained to me yet why the contractor should benefit from our inconvenience.

I have not asked for compensation. Lets just say, compensation was the only word I could think of to best explain the situation. I do think though that the contractor should pass on the reduction in cost to ourselves , as the reduction in cost was for our inconvenience.

Brett and Hintza, I take it you're the type of people who take the !!!! behind your computer because you're not happy within yourselves but don't know how to deal with it. Find yourselves. And think of the children !!

hcb42

did your insurer pay for this? (or theirs?)

You cannot profit from this, it is simply there to put you back into same financial position.

Go to court if you want to claim more than that.

arcon5

cheesymax wrote: »

Halibut, I appreciate your post for trying to clear up, the "legal" side of this.

However, no one has explained to me yet why the contractor should benefit from our inconvenience.

I have not asked for compensation. Lets just say, compensation was the only word I could think of to best explain the situation. I do think though that the contractor should pass on the reduction in cost to ourselves , as the reduction in cost was for our inconvenience.

Brett and Hintza, I take it you're the type of people who take the !!!! behind your computer because you're not happy within yourselves but don't know how to deal with it. Find yourselves. And think of the children !!

Actually it will not benefit the contractor, it will benefit their insurance company. It's a safe assumption the cost to replace the window post-discount is greater than the excess the contractor will have to pay so it doesn't benefit them.

The financial arrangement between the contractor and the window fitting company, quite simply is nothing to do with you. What does concern you is the arrangment between you and the contractor to repair the window -- which they are doing.

The contractor made a mistake, happens to us all, even if they was benefitting from the discount, then so what? Whats your problem if they want to minimise their losses?

And why should be receive financial benefit from this? A window on your house was broken, nothing major, happens all the time.

cheesymax

Arcon, the start of your post is a fair point.

I think i've stated previously that I haven't an issue with the contractor breaking the window. As you say happens all the time. So lets forget that.

You asked what the financial agreement and discount has to do with me. Well I put the time and effort in to negotiaite and agree the discount. If I hadn't, there wouldn't have been a discount.

And again, you still haven't explained why the contractor should benefit from my inconvenience.

You asked "What's your problem if they want to minimise there losses? ". How about another scenario, likely or not. The glazing company say they can't repair the window for 2 months and in apology they will carry out the work for free. Should we receive some money or should the contractor be charged nothing ?

arcon5

cheesymax wrote: »

arcon, the start of your post is a fair point.

I think i've stated previously that i haven't an issue with the contractor breaking the window. As you say happens all the time. So lets forget that.

You asked what the financial agreement and discount has to do with me. Well i put the time and effort in to negotiaite and agree the discount. If i hadn't, there wouldn't have been a discount.

but you didn't have to. If you did then good for you for helping a company acting reasonably minimise their losses (although this won't actually be the case)

and again, you still haven't explained why the contractor should benefit from my inconvenience.

but they are not benefitting are they? They would be minimising their losses. They are having to spend money to rectify their mistake -- hardly benefitting is it?
Although as already said, it will infact be the insurance company benefitting from this.

That aside, why should you benefit financially from it?

you asked "what's your problem if they want to minimise there losses? ". How about another scenario, likely or not. The glazing company say they can't repair the window for 2 months and in apology they will carry out the work for free. Should we receive some money or should the contractor be charged nothing ?

but you wasn't waiting 2 months, you waited a reasonable amount of time for them to get it sorted so thats neither here nor there.

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cheesymax

But it wasn't rectified quickly or reasonably !!! I At 3pm a 24 HOUR Emergency glazing company told me they would board the window up by 5pm. At 5 pm, they told me they couldn't do it until the next day

brettcta

and what time was it done the next day?

cheesymax

but you wasn't waiting 2 months, you waited a reasonable amount of time for them to get it sorted so thats neither here nor there.

This was an exaggerated example to show that the the principle is the same.