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Bought house- drive faulty - do I have any rights?

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  • yoshiyella
    yoshiyella Posts: 610 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    parking_question_chap wrote: »
    £10,000.....

    Do you live at Heathrow airport?

    :think:

    I was going to say!

    I was quoted £900 for my drive and I baulked at that!
  • societys_child
    societys_child Posts: 7,110 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 12 March 2018 at 9:24PM
    £10,000? Re-bed the sunken blocks.

    Cost? A bit of hardcore or sand.

    Your rights are that it's now your drive and you can do what you want with it.
  • 00ec25
    00ec25 Posts: 9,123 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Arabanna wrote: »
    Do I have any rights to get the company to re-lay the drive as I am not the one who purchased the drive from them in the first place and I have no paper evidence?
    you have answered your own question

    spreading is not a lack of sub base depth, it is a failure of the edges to stop stuff moving sideways

    i laid my own driveway 19 years ago and put in "proper" kerb edging. The only issue now is 4 slight depressions caused by the wheels of the 6 ton vehicle habitually parked in that same spot day after day.
  • Arabanna
    Arabanna Posts: 11 Forumite
    I think the builder was trying to scare me! That's a relief!
  • BLOW_FLY
    BLOW_FLY Posts: 115 Forumite
    Arabanna wrote: »
    I think the builder was trying to scare me! That's a relief!

    I think the builder was trying to lift your leg, was he wearing a mask and a cape too as he gave you the £10k quote?

    BF
  • Arabanna
    Arabanna Posts: 11 Forumite
    I think the builder was trying to scare me! Thanks for your reassurance. It's not that big!!!
  • Arabanna
    Arabanna Posts: 11 Forumite
    All the survey says is:
    "There were vehicles parked on the drive, which restricted my examination."
  • Lorian
    Lorian Posts: 6,668 Forumite
    Twentieth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Post a photo of the worst bit.
  • Arabanna
    Arabanna Posts: 11 Forumite
    Not Heathrow! More like Chipping Sodbury!
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