Small claims help for property damage

GDB2222

Personally, by now, given that you have their names and addresses, I would have:

Checked the land register 
If they own the house, I would have issued an LBA and started proceedings.

They may defend the proceedings, if only to argue about quantum. For example , you seem to have replaced everything, rather than cleaned it, and that makes a vast difference to the cost. The judge may side with the miscreants on this. 

Bear in mind that the hearing will take place at a court near them, so you will have a six hour drive to court. That may mean staying overnight and arranging childcare.  You will have to take that into account if they offer to pay part of the claim. 

pinkshoes

GDB2222 said:

Personally, by now, given that you have their names and addresses, I would have:

Checked the land register 
If they own the house, I would have issued an LBA and started proceedings.

They may defend the proceedings, if only to argue about quantum. For example , you seem to have replaced everything, rather than cleaned it, and that makes a vast difference to the cost. The judge may side with the miscreants on this. 

Bear in mind that the hearing will take place at a court near them, so you will have a six hour drive to court. That may mean staying overnight and arranging childcare.  You will have to take that into account if they offer to pay part of the claim. 

I agree other than the bit in bold. The OP may have had other bookings in place, so although cleaning would have saved money rather than replacing, the loss of any booking cancellations due to the time period to get this done would have probably ended up costing more. 

@catow22 - I would pay £7 to see if they own the property, then if they do, send them a letter before action, giving them 14 days to pay the £900 damages before you take the matter to court, which will also incur additional costs.

https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry