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Roof Fascia Issue
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robbiejustice
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Hi, I wasn't sure where to post this so apologies if in the wrong place.
I own a flat in a building with 6 other flats and am about to try and sell it. We have the top floor with a roof terrace. The fascia boards around the flat roof are rotting and look terrible when stood one the terrace. The building is 10 years old.
The management company contacted BLP (the 10 year building insurance company) to see if this was covered and they said not because they have not been properly maintained (painted).
Quotes for replacing the wooden fascias with plastic ones are about £30k. The cost is so high because of the scaffolding costs (3 storey building) and the awkwardness of having another apartment block built directly on the side of ours.
Given the costs are mainly because of the scaffolding then assuming a cost of around £20k (once every few years) to maintain these fascia boards (I will get this confirmed) then it would seem to me that the wrong materials have been used and they should pay for this to be changed.
Does anyone have any opinions or experience of something similar?
I own a flat in a building with 6 other flats and am about to try and sell it. We have the top floor with a roof terrace. The fascia boards around the flat roof are rotting and look terrible when stood one the terrace. The building is 10 years old.
The management company contacted BLP (the 10 year building insurance company) to see if this was covered and they said not because they have not been properly maintained (painted).
Quotes for replacing the wooden fascias with plastic ones are about £30k. The cost is so high because of the scaffolding costs (3 storey building) and the awkwardness of having another apartment block built directly on the side of ours.
Given the costs are mainly because of the scaffolding then assuming a cost of around £20k (once every few years) to maintain these fascia boards (I will get this confirmed) then it would seem to me that the wrong materials have been used and they should pay for this to be changed.
Does anyone have any opinions or experience of something similar?
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Wooden fascias are very common. Yes, they need regular paining. No you can't claim the builders used 'the wrong materials'. Perhaps there were better choices to be made, but that was a matter of choice at the time.
Or perhaps no choice - the Planners may have insisted on wood - who knows.
Either way, they now need either repair and painting, or replacement.0
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