My house damaged by estate agent.

Ulfar

Stilletos are not appropriate work wear. The fact this is an estate agent who should know better.

[Deleted User]

Tell the Estate Agent to sort it out within one week or you will file a Small Claims Court claim. If they don't, do it.

lessonlearned

I think it is totally unacceptable that someone should ruin someone's floor by wearing stilletos.

I also think it is the height of bad manners to traipse mud and gunge all over someone's nice carpets.

When I ran my showhouses I kept the little shoe slip covers for visitors to wear. I would politely ask viewers to either remove their shoes or pop on the shoe covers. Some of the replies I had are unprintable on a public forum.:rotfl: (I simply refused them access to my showhomes).

Why do some Brits think it is perfectly acceptable to disrespect other people's property in this way.

We could learn something from other countries where outdoor shoes are removed and left at the door as a matter of course.

Halle71

Would said estate agent walk around her own polished wooden floors (for example) with stilettos on? Or her friend's? No? Then she shouldn't walk on a client's floor.
And presumably she didn't just dance around the hallway then take them off, so the marks will be from her coming and going between rooms and, stilettos or not, she shouldn't be wearing her shoes around the house unless it was filthy.

Herzlos

ReadingTim wrote: »

And such negligence also extends to the OP who failed to take adequate measures to prevent damage to said flooring, for example by requesting that shoes be removed before walking on it. OP's fault, OP's cost.

Except the requirement wasn't to remove all shoes, just not wear shoes that'll damage any floors i.e. such an obvious request that it really doesn't need to be mentioned.

The fact that an Estate Agent didn't realise that Stillettos (banned in a lot of places because of the damage they can cause) aren't suitable for house viewings, so the issue is with the estate agent.

pinkshoes

A HALLWAY should be suitable for all types of shoes.

It would put me off buying a house if the main floor could be damaged so easily!

I expect people to take their shoes off when entering rooms, but hallways need to be robust!

moneyistooshorttomention

In this case, the flooring was also damaged in the kitchen though.

Also, as I've said previously carpets are really not suitable for hallways and carpet DOES seem to be the only type of flooring that will stand up to people in stilettos. Therefore my last house had laminate flooring in the hallway and this one will have either laminate or vinyl (would be engineered wood...but I cant afford that:().

Maybe some people manage to "avoid knowing" about the damage they are causing to other peoples flooring by selfishly insistence on wearing stilettos in other peoples homes because those people never tell them. I was only mentioning to a friend yesterday about this thread and she commented that a friend of hers years ago had ruined some flooring in her home with her stilettos, but she had never told her (I would have personally...as I would have decided that it wasn't worth having a selfish person as a friend...and that would be one quick way of finding out if they were a genuine friend or no....).

Davesnave

pinkshoes wrote: »

A HALLWAY should be suitable for all types of shoes.

....hallways need to be robust!

Looking at your avatar, you would say that! :rotfl:

Mistral001

Perhaps the OP should sue the people who supplied the floor. Did they say that it could not be walked on by stiletto heels in the advert?

lessonlearned

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I was only mentioning to a friend yesterday about this thread and she commented that a friend of hers years ago had ruined some flooring in her home with her stilettos, but she had never told her.

She was probably far too polite to mention it.....

The same thing happened to me - solid wood floors - cost a fortune, friends daughter not only clomped through my house in her high heels, she also dragged her dining chair across the floor.

I kept silent but her mother saw me wince.

Some time later they moved house and their new house had wooden floors like mine. From then on they started removing their shoes when they visited me.

I guess they had to experience it being done to them before they saw the light....;)