New Builders responsibility for dangerous roof tiles.

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Thrugelmir said:

ElephantBoy57 said:

davidmcn said:

isagan said:

.Yes, but cars are different. You haven't had to put your house through an MOT, or to get a licence to use one. Almost everything you buy doesn't have a recall system like cars do.

An MOT is not required in the first 3 years, the average lifespan of a car is around 10 years. You have picked a poor example.

Longer than ten years if it's properly maintained. Though no one waits until something goes wrong prior to taking action. 
I've been watching ridge tiles progressively fall off the property opposite for over a year now. The neighbour has little concern for the bigger problems that may arise. Never understand some people when the issue could be fixed in a couple of hours. 

Don't worry , they will be on the insurance section soon complaining the insurer has rejected their claim and they want to take it to the ombudsman

apthorpea

I have a similar problem, my house is nearly 7 years old and I have been dealing with the NHBC for over one year as damp has been coming into one of the bedrooms which turned out to be water  getting under the front copings on the roof between me and my neighbour.  The NHBC are paying for the work .

On New Year's day the copings on the back of my roof between me and  my neighbours came off the roof and landed on my neighbours roof who was away at the time.  Also opposite me copings came of another roof in the front of their house, if they had hit someone they would have killed them.  Someone called the management agency for the estate and sent roofers round on New Years Day from Birmingham, we are in Cornwall who put the Copings back but said he doubted that they would stay on the roof as the wood underneath the copings was rotten.  The roofer couldn't reach my roof but was able to lift the copings off and put them safely on the ground,  The copings fell off the house opposite me last night onto a footpath.
The copings  cover the lead flashings are  3 meters long by 2 meters wide and the 14, 3 storey houses which form a semi circle each have 8 copings.  

As the copings have let in water in 6 of the 14 houses, the probability is that all the houses have an inherent problem. and as such be classed as dangerous structures.

As freeholders our home insurance will cover anyone who has looses a coping of in a storm. What about the copings that have not fallen off the roofs.  The roofs look well kept and nothing wrong with them, you wouldn't be able to tell there is anything wrong with them unless you investigated the integrity of the copings by lifting them.  

Is this something we have to live with.