Aedis Building Inspectors unreachable

Frustrated123

Kamakazekate said:

Daisypalpaisy said:

Thank you very much for your help. Did you ever try and get your initial money back via charge back? I’m so glad you managed to get your signed off. We have lots of photographs etc too so hoping that might be helpful in getting ours signed off. Looking back on it now, I don’t understand why we weren’t given copies at each inspection stage. I wish o had asked for them! 

Thank you again 

Ha we would do things very differently next time that's a fact Glad you have photos they may help even without the notes. Try speaking to your council first before forking out 

I have heard our local council want the fee first & then they’ll talk, which I think is very unfair. Nobody I know has reverted back to local council & cannot make any sense of anything with them re: Aedis notes...... bit of a lottery really.

Zmiller86

So we had almost finished our build when Aedis went into liquidations.  Have gone through reversion to council who managed to obtain the notes from Aedis but unfortunately it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. LABC are ignoring it completely and so having to prove everything from scratch including foundations. Having to dig a trial hole to see whether the depth of foundations is adequate. Builder said he went with Aedis inspector and carried on the build. Who would be responsible to rectify if building regs do not approve foundations?

theGrinch

Anyone else had the liquidators circular a week or two ago?
When you try to email it has an autoresponse.
Anyone been contacted in the pass year regarding the progress of the liquidators, votes on fees and other matters?
Not much accountability or transparency from what I have seen and having working in that sector.

Kamakazekate

Zmiller86 said:

So we had almost finished our build when Aedis went into liquidations.  Have gone through reversion to council who managed to obtain the notes from Aedis but unfortunately it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. LABC are ignoring it completely and so having to prove everything from scratch including foundations. Having to dig a trial hole to see whether the depth of foundations is adequate. Builder said he went with Aedis inspector and carried on the build. Who would be responsible to rectify if building regs do not approve foundations?

Not sure who's responsible. Did you take any photographs during the build of progress? A lot of councils will accept this so invasive works not necessary.
If the builder has not adhered to building regs, would assume they're responsible.

Zmiller86

Kamakazekate said:

Zmiller86 said:

So we had almost finished our build when Aedis went into liquidations.  Have gone through reversion to council who managed to obtain the notes from Aedis but unfortunately it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. LABC are ignoring it completely and so having to prove everything from scratch including foundations. Having to dig a trial hole to see whether the depth of foundations is adequate. Builder said he went with Aedis inspector and carried on the build. Who would be responsible to rectify if building regs do not approve foundations?

Not sure who's responsible. Did you take any photographs during the build of progress? A lot of councils will accept this so invasive works not necessary.
If the builder has not adhered to building regs, would assume they're responsible.

We had photos of the foundations but council said they may not be deep enough, so frustrating.  

Zmiller86

theGrinch said:

Anyone else had the liquidators circular a week or two ago?
When you try to email it has an autoresponse.
Anyone been contacted in the pass year regarding the progress of the liquidators, votes on fees and other matters?
Not much accountability or transparency from what I have seen and having working in that sector.

I was told by LABC they were were all the wrong notes so not worth pursuing 

Kamakazekate

Zmiller86 said:

Kamakazekate said:

Zmiller86 said:

So we had almost finished our build when Aedis went into liquidations.  Have gone through reversion to council who managed to obtain the notes from Aedis but unfortunately it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. LABC are ignoring it completely and so having to prove everything from scratch including foundations. Having to dig a trial hole to see whether the depth of foundations is adequate. Builder said he went with Aedis inspector and carried on the build. Who would be responsible to rectify if building regs do not approve foundations?

Not sure who's responsible. Did you take any photographs during the build of progress? A lot of councils will accept this so invasive works not necessary.
If the builder has not adhered to building regs, would assume they're responsible.

We had photos of the foundations but council said they may not be deep enough, so frustrating.  

That is frustrating. How much of a may not. Would try argue it will your architect help?

Zmiller86

Kamakazekate said:

Zmiller86 said:

Kamakazekate said:

Zmiller86 said:

So we had almost finished our build when Aedis went into liquidations.  Have gone through reversion to council who managed to obtain the notes from Aedis but unfortunately it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. LABC are ignoring it completely and so having to prove everything from scratch including foundations. Having to dig a trial hole to see whether the depth of foundations is adequate. Builder said he went with Aedis inspector and carried on the build. Who would be responsible to rectify if building regs do not approve foundations?

Not sure who's responsible. Did you take any photographs during the build of progress? A lot of councils will accept this so invasive works not necessary.
If the builder has not adhered to building regs, would assume they're responsible.

We had photos of the foundations but council said they may not be deep enough, so frustrating.  

That is frustrating. How much of a may not. Would try argue it will your architect help?

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Frustrated123

Received a letter from liquidators re: files, so thought I might as well request them and see what we have. Worryingly at the bottom of e mail it says
” Please note, the Joint Liquidators have requested the LABC confirm that the documentation to be transferred will be sufficient, however they have not provided this confirmation and therefore this will be a matter between you and the LABC.”
Rather worrying. Did many caught up in this request a copy of notes after each inspection ?

This is something I will certainly be doing in future.

hypnomedium

Update.  We are a self build so our build has taken longer than most.  We rang for an inspection and discovered that Aedis had gone into liquidation.  WE got in touch with LABC and waited 4 months for an inspection after having sent them hundreds of photographs. Then we were kept hanging about for even longer until they were really pressed to tell us if we could continue.  They said it was ok to plaster so we thought everything was ok.  By the evening we received an email asking us to reveal the footings at each corner of the  building because we only had one photo.  We have the gardens all landscaped, it would compromise all the drainage and walls had been built (good reason for all this to be done but too long to explain). I had managed to track down our file because we were not informed of the liquidation.  I have paid the £150 and have received the file this morning.  Luckily it has a report that the footings were inspected and passed but then there is very little else.  The inspections after that have not been written up.  Then they started to report that we were uncontactable.  They visited the site but no one was there.  We are always here because the site is right behind our home.  Looking a little deeper they had reverted to contacting the architect who had moved away.  They sent many letters to the architects address and then declared that because we had not responded they were cancelling our contract and handing the file to the LABC.  They never handed over the file maybe because it was absolute rubbish but we are greatly relieved that the footings inspection was in there.  These inspectors should be independently reported to their governing body for negligence and it is no wonder that Aedis lost their insurance.  I din't believe that any of us know the full story.