House Getting Ripped Up

GoneSavage

Hi,

I've been advised that my council property is to get a new bathroom, kitchen, gas and heating, requiring the need to dig up my concrete floors, which will take six months apparently. They started in the area on Monday.

I called up the local Council today enquiring when I'll be getting decanted and was told that I would only be rehoused in 'exceptional circumstances', as there's a shortage of housing.

Surely this isn't correct? Am I supposed to stay in my home while they're ripping up my carpets and doing the building works?

krisskross

GoneSavage wrote: »

Hi,

I've been advised that my council property is to get a new bathroom, kitchen, gas and heating, requiring the need to dig up my concrete floors, which will take six months apparently. They started in the area on Monday.

I called up the local Council today enquiring when I'll be getting decanted and was told that I would only be rehoused in 'exceptional circumstances', as there's a shortage of housing.

Surely this isn't correct? Am I supposed to stay in my home while they're ripping up my carpets and doing the building works?

I would imagine the 6 month timescale is to complete the work on all the properties involved, not 6 months for each individual property.

boobies

Shocking - having to stay in a house whilst maintenance work is done. What do you think home owners and private tenants do?

McKneff

There are thousands of people on the list who would swap places with you in a heartbeat.

wiccanlou

Depends on whether the maintenance work would cause an illness to become significantly worse.

I was decanted recently after a plumber for my housing association flooded my house, not a little flood either 4 inches of water throughout the whole of my downstairs in the middle of the night because he failed to do his job properly, the water meter showed we used 6 months of water in one night or 24 tons of the stuff. Due to the damp, noise when taking the damaged plaster off the walls, lack of kitchen, no furniture, dust and the pair of us having respiratory and him having heart problems they moved us whilst they spent a month putting my house back together. This would not have happened if it wasn't for our health problems. But we were not moved the previous year when they replaced our kitchen as there was only a small amount of disturbance, dust and noise and they arranged for daily storage of our items, like the washing machine and cooker and provided us with a baby belling and make shift kitchen.

You have a right to ask for a complete schedule of works and also to ask for a copy of the risk assessment and method statement relating to you as an individual. When reading through this it should not be a generic risk assessment if you have health problems, if this is the case then call them back up and say that it will cause you health issues. I am not sure what they will do after that it will be a case of you and them.

I prefer not to bash the OP unless they are being provocative in their post.

Chrissiew

wiccanlou wrote: »

Depends on whether the maintenance work would cause an illness to become significantly worse.

I was decanted recently after a plumber for my housing association flooded my house, not a little flood either 4 inches of water throughout the whole of my downstairs in the middle of the night because he failed to do his job properly, the water meter showed we used 6 months of water in one night or 24 tons of the stuff. Due to the damp, noise when taking the damaged plaster off the walls, lack of kitchen, no furniture, dust and the pair of us having respiratory and him having heart problems they moved us whilst they spent a month putting my house back together. This would not have happened if it wasn't for our health problems. But we were not moved the previous year when they replaced our kitchen as there was only a small amount of disturbance, dust and noise and they arranged for daily storage of our items, like the washing machine and cooker and provided us with a baby belling and make shift kitchen.

You have a right to ask for a complete schedule of works and also to ask for a copy of the risk assessment and method statement relating to you as an individual. When reading through this it should not be a generic risk assessment if you have health problems, if this is the case then call them back up and say that it will cause you health issues. I am not sure what they will do after that it will be a case of you and them.

I prefer not to bash the OP unless they are being provocative in their post.

When they replaced our kitchen we had to have all our stuff, cooker, washing machine, tumble dryer fridge freezer etc in the living room and bedrooms, they didnt provide us with a belling cooker either we just had to make do with the microwave or take aways. I suppose different areas do different things.

wiccanlou

I live in a two up two down and my front door opens into my living room, my living room is only 4m by 3.5m so if they put my kitchen stuff in my living room they wouldn't have been able to get into my kitchen as we have no back door cause our house is back to back with someone. Bedroom is the same size and the kitchen is a 3.5m by 2.5m empty with everything the walking area is 2.5 metres by 1.5 metres and takes less than three minutes to clean! So its also a space thing.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Hello again GoneSavage !

GoneSavage

krisskross wrote: »

I would imagine the 6 month timescale is to complete the work on all the properties involved, not 6 months for each individual property.

How long do you think it would take my property to get done?

wiccanlou

Ask for the schedule of works as I have suggested and the time scale for each section of the work will be in there but be aware that is only a guess as they can't foresee any hold ups and problems that may arise.