Council House and the Wind a Bizarre Question

Lloyd90

Social housing again has nothing to do with Race! Neither does being Scottish!

marksoton

Lloyd90 wrote: »

Social housing again has nothing to do with Race! Neither does being Scottish!

The former is true.

The latter more questionable!

Lloyd90

Scottish is surely a nationality Mark.

If someone's going to accuse us of something we haven't even done they could at least get the terms right lol!

Perhaps it is the wind that is discriminating against the Scottish?! :rotfl:

Norman_Castle

marksoton wrote: »

So you're advocating the OP?

Go on, i dare you.....

Hardly daring is it?
If there is a problem with the ops home they are welcome to ask the council to resolve it. The council will decide what reasonable. If the op had bought a home with these problems their opinions wouldn't be getting rudely dismissed.

Are you advocating this? Stated by Lloyd90. Now deleted.

Personally I'd consider myself lucky to have a cheap council house that I'd one day be able to buy for a reduced rate and not be trying to 'blame the council' for wind which is totally out of their control.

Apparently you already had a 40-50k wall out of them, although no idea what relevance you think that has to your problem with the wind.

RTB doesn't exist in Scotland. The op hasn't had a 50k wall out of anyone. A structural fault has been resolved. Nothing to do with the op.

marksoton

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Hardly daring is it?
If there is a problem with the ops home they are welcome to ask the council to resolve it. The council will decide what reasonable. If the op had bought a home with these problems their opinions wouldn't be getting rudely dismissed.

But they didn't. And they spent none of their own money.

But on this occasion my answer would be the same regardless.

One of my windows isn't south facing.. Who can i sue?

Behave.

carefullycautious

Right back to the question


You have moved into a ground floor flat on a new build estate which suffers from extremes of weather due to its location.


Have you asked the council if there is any way of putting a wind break in e.g. A row of conifers or other shrubs trees that would help.


It also does seem from what you have said that the door were not fitted properly, Would a porch help?


Your neighbour (the civil engineer) appears to be trying to resolve the issue can you wait for the outcome?


I have lived backing onto open fields and whilst the view was brilliant it was freezing in the winter. Dried the washing all year round though :rotfl:

GwylimT

I used to live on the Welsh coast, on windy days you couldn't open the front door at all, so I know how annoying it is. We built a long brick porch with a side opening (no door, still too windy). So you could walk down the open side of the porch and then open the front door.

Norman_Castle

marksoton wrote: »

But they didn't. And they spent none of their own money.

contempt
kənˈtɛm(p)t/
noun
noun: contempt
the feeling that a person or a thing is worthless or beneath consideration.

PersianCatLady

Money_Saving_Scot wrote: »

Hi,

So to set the scene, I am a council tenant who is living in a new build estate in Scotland and I have a big problem and that is the wind and rain! Wind mostly, How because when I moved in just coming up to 2 years ago, I discovered after the summer had past the winter came in my front door is been absolutely battered by the rain, hail and wind causing damage to the doors coating even but not until recently my front door has got fixed by the council as there was massive issues with the door which I can explain later if anyone would like to know but to cut a long story short its now moving freely and no longer sticks or hard to shut thus causing the door in the stormy conditions to be a potential health and safety risk because when I need to go out to work when its windy my door nearly slams in my face! and rain drives right into my house no joke! Now the council have a wee fence at the front but its not high enough to provide a wind barrier I was wondering because the council seemingly did not consider wind or storms in their environmental survey is there any channels which I can go down to legally force the council to extend the fence upwards to the maximum height allowed so as to protect myself? because this is not the first failure of the councils landscape designs because they had to come out to build a retaining wall because my garden was on the move off the embankment and they were forced to build a retaining wall which they were not happy about because it cost them over 30 to 40K to sort out however this idea is hopefully gonna cost a lot less! any help?

I think that if you used sentences and paragraphs in your post it would make it easier for people to read and then you might get some more opinions and advice.

PersianCatLady

ReadingTim wrote: »

Firstly, if you think the wind and rain is a health and safety issue, you need to take action against the cause of the wind and rain, which isn't the council. Good luck with suing god.

Secondly, if you're have problems with wind and rain then perhaps Scotland isn't the best place to live.

Finally, if you can't operate your own front door successfully, I don't think you should be allowed out in public anyway.

I nearly choked on my crisps then when I read that and couldn't help myself from laughing.


Can I sue you on H & S grounds??