Car damaged by Builders

Poppie68

You mentioned the car was parked behind timber hoarding, was the car parked in an area maybe used by the builders has the timber been placed there for this reason?
Have any other cars been affected? If so maybe you could get together with the other car owners to bring action against the firm responsible?

pinkshoes

Hayley_222 wrote: »

Thanks all. There is no CCTV. The cement has fallen from their building site from a height down onto my car, parked on separate land.


The car is worth a lot more than £4k. And it's not 'just' dust. Its proper cement, lots of it.


Damage definitely caused by the builders, they have already admitted that it was their cement but they claim because the scaffolding wasn't sheeted properly that the scaffolders should be blamed. I don't think I should claim on insurance when this clearly isn't my fault.

In which case, you need to be getting THREE quotes to have the car fixed, then sending the owner of the building site a "letter before action", pointing out that the have already admitted liability for the incident (is this in writing???) and giving them 28 days to pay for the damage to your car.

It is the owner of the building site that should be held responsible, then they are free to blame it and reclaim from anyone they like on the building site.

I would perhaps be reporting the incident to the police (call 101), as they have knowingly caused damage to your property without dealing with it.