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Housing Executive Grant for roof

pepper33 · 2015-04-02 17:19:06

My mother got a grant from the HENI just over 10 years ago. She used a builderthat was on the list approved, and here we are now, after my mother passed away, with a roof that is uninsurable, and has been installed the wrong way. Slates, flashing are all falling off, ,and the insurance company gave us a report to say that…

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pepper33 Posts: 508 Forumite

3 April 2015 at 6:07PM

Something to do with the roof should have been laid in one piece and not in overlapping layers. The slates have only nails in every other slate. the work was done by a company which is still going, but wouldn't answer my mum's calls whenever the roof first went wrong. the most worrying thing is the roof is not insured

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