Garage Roof Replacement

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Update.
Having said no thank you to the housing association, fast forward to 16th March. I received a threat o gram from their solicitors basically saying that I had to agree to let them do the work or get an injunction against me to force the work to be done. No consultation. No other communications. Needless to say, I've disputed this, and surprise surprise, not had a reply.

What I have since found out is that the materials cost for the work for both sides of the garages is at most £1500. Therefore, using their solicitors insistence that £2500 is the cost of half of the works, the total labour cost would be £3500. Me thinks that someone has either got their sums wrong or that they want me to pay for the whole roof.

ComicGeek

Don't forget that the council's costs will always be much, much higher than what you can do it for.

They have to pay for an 'expert' to write a specification; they have to have a contract administrator/project manager; the job may need to be tendered; they have to employ an expensive and large contractor on their approved list; the materials will be purchased from an approved builder's merchant with mark-ups, not the cheapest online store; there will be numerous site inspections and meetings.

All that costs money. The admin and labour costs will far outweigh the materials costs.

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Update.
The Housing Association have now sent us a letter saying that they are not taking any legal action and apologising for any distress caused. I think they have realised that they have not gone about things in the best way.
They are now in the process of doing proper inspections of the garages and will be answering all of the questions that the property owners have asked. Hopefully they might start actually talking to us.

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ComicGeek wrote: »

Don't forget that the council's costs will always be much, much higher than what you can do it for.

They have to pay for an 'expert' to write a specification; they have to have a contract administrator/project manager; the job may need to be tendered; they have to employ an expensive and large contractor on their approved list; the materials will be purchased from an approved builder's merchant with mark-ups, not the cheapest online store; there will be numerous site inspections and meetings.

All that costs money. The admin and labour costs will far outweigh the materials costs.

They have to be very careful about what extras they charge. We are freeholders and not leaseholders. Therefore as far as we are concerned, they have to follow the same "rules" as if they were just private owners. There is nothing in the covenants to say otherwise.