Merry F*cking Christmas, New year cant come quick enough

[binge]

Bah Humbug!


2am this morning, my Bay window fell through, crushed the Christmas tree, and destroyed the carpet.

At first, I thought 'for fuck sake Santa, you're meant to be quiet at this shit!'.
But then when I wondered through into the living room after being awaken by the crash, I saw the ceiling laid all over the floor.


The house is under 3 years old. It's in Eden Village in Sittingbourne, and it clearly has damp issues. The walls are SOAKED behind the plasterboard which has fallen out, and you can see daylight when looking up through the roof, where the bay window is attached to the side of the brickwork.

AND, NHBC are closed until the 2nd. DOH!

Water is dripping through everywhere, and we're due two more storms at the end of the week.


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In this picture, you can clearly see daylight up through the gap

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On a brighter note, I got a Pedo bear Onsie for Christmas. Will upload a picture later.

[N cee thirty]

Don't build um like they used to
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[CaNsA]

[binge]

Aha ya dick!
It's ripped all the light wiring out, and smashed all the base.
Was more the fact the gifts got wet and tatty though. It was only a cheap Xmas tree.

[Polarbear]

[yampug]

your room must be about 2 foot square for that radiator to heat it.

bad luck with you're ceiling falling down hopefully they can get it fixed for you.

[-Matt-]

[Clutchy]

What did we say about buying chinese bikes...


Ohp wring thread

3 years old! Jeeeebus
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[Ste]

Home insurance to the rescue?

[Rogerborg]

[ThoughtContro...]

[Ste]

To fix everything.

They could then get their money back by whatever means ate necessary, that would be the insurance companies problem so binge can do moar pitbike building.

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[STONEY!]

Sodding new builds, my mates moved into one by the time it was a year old not one door would close properly, all the downlighters packed up and there was no access to fix them, plaster cracked in every room and mold in a few.

[Ste]

Sounds like I've been lucky with my Persimmon house, been here nearly six years and there's been no problems with the house.

[-Matt-]

No wonder they've been churning out the new-buyer mortgage schemes, probably trying to flog them all before people start spreading the word they're made of pastry

[yampug]

[Ratty]

Man.. .. that's a disgrace, where were the building regs' and house inspectors ??-- that looks like it was built by 'Gash-hand Cowboys...

i.m.h.o. there's no beating older properties for reliability ours was built in 1936, and when it blows / pisses it down, not a single drip gets through.

I hope you sue the feckers, and get a complete re-build, or get a new house out of them.

I don't think that radiator would dry anything out,might as well have a candle.
Wish you good luck getting it sorted.

[Rogerborg]

[331X2]

[yampug]

[Mark_F]

[treeno]

Polish builders . This is why I would never buy a newly built house. I've stayed in a couple and the walls are thin as paper and they fall apart from what my mates have said.

Hope you get it all sorted soon mate.
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[Raffles]

The house that you are living in is built to current industry standards ie shit.
The problems that you have encountered appear to have been caused by penetrating damp. It's likely that the flashing between the main structure of the house and the flat roof above your bay window is defective. This defect needs to be rectified before you consider carrying out internal repairs.
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[binge]

Aha you bastards. The Radiator is one of two. The other is about 2x bigger. Not sure why they felt the need to stick the tiny one in the Bay window. Although it is a blessing in disguise, as I wanted to put the TV in the bay window when I first moved in, but because of the Radiator, I didn't bother.
Looks like I'd be after a new Tele now if I had.

In regards to the problem, I think Raffels is spot on the money. I've had it looked at by a retired Charted Surveyor and he said exactly the same thing.
Also, when looking on the outside of the building, the lead flashing looks to be different to all the other bay windows on the street, and ours is all pugged up with mastic where they've clearly had a problem when building the house.

I will be phoning up again tomorrow and the insurance are coming out to have a look at it.
Pretty sure it's going to come down to the NHBC because it's 100% NOT storm damage, the storm has just acted as a catalyst to the problem.

Carpet is soaked, and starting to smell damp now, and since the photos, all the plaster has started to fall away on the window frames, inside the bay window. So I'm pretty certain it's all gonna be coming down for the repairs. I just hope it can be done over a couple of days, rather than weeks.