Water leaking down outside walls

FreeBear

I would say that it is a design and construction defect - Certainly something the developers should be remedying rather than trying to wriggle out of doing anything.

What else have they missed out when building the houses ?

TELLIT01

Developers will do anything they can to wriggle out of their responsibilities. If they won't act to correct what is pretty clearly a construction fault contact NHBC in the first instance. If no joy there, look at the small claims court after getting an independant report on the cause of the problem.

Futuristic

We got this response:

The roofing company have come back to us to confirm that as this is not a design/construction fault.

Site Manager has confirmed - There is no structural defect

Both have confirmed that it is not possible to have guttering installed as GRP bay roofs are not designed to have guttering on them.

G_M

£340 sounds expensive - most of that is labour and it'snot a hard job.


Though you'll have to consider where the downpipe leads. You can't just release the water at the foot of the wall or you'll create a new damp problem.........