#buildingproblems

[doingupnumber13]

I’m upstairs....

My husband has banned me from going downstairs as the third lot of builders (builders C) are here to fit their third hearth....

The plumber who is always late (and tried to stop me from getting my son a prescription last time he was here, and frankly is a plumber so unquestionably a dickhead) is also supposed to be coming to fix the central heating that was obviously ‘fully tested’ before we moved in.... it’ll be nice to have it fixed for this weeks heatwave☀️

It’s only maybe the 6th or 7th visit from tradesmen that we’ve had since we moved in 9 weeks ago...

Also we had to transform the living room this morning into the building site look for them... I like nothing more than rearranging all the furniture, putting up the pictures back up, moving vases, photo frames etc etc....

It’s actually fun, I wish I could do it all the time..... I wouldn’t want to feel too at home...

So anyway I’m stuck upstairs so that no blood is shed (or at least so that I don’t have to ask them if they’ve mastered the use of the tape measure yet...)

[doingupnumber13]

The Building Project

We decided not to move straight into the house but to stay in our rented accommodation so that the work would be done more quickly and so that it would be less disruptive for us. I also made the decision early on to give up my part time job in order to oversee the building project, order bathrooms etc as they were required and as rooms were completed start decorating so that things were more or less done when we moved in.

From September 2016 until we moved in I was at the house from school drop off to school pick up decorating the house outside and in and ensuring things were being done correctly by the trades in the house. Over the course of this time there were inevitably problems and any issues I had I went directly to the two guys in charge of builders A.

I had complained about the attitude of their plumber as his communication about where things were going and what size radiators were going to be etc was fairly haphazard. Also on the night he fitted the boiler managed to upset my neighbours by working so late (he also put the heating on without having connected the one of the radiators causing a massive leak.) When I asked if we could get another plumber to work on this job Builders A told me that we couldn’t - ‘he is our plumber’.

Eventually we moved in and despite our end date with Builders A being a couple of weeks earlier the that we were moving a week earlier the work was still not complete with various bits and bobs still being done inside. The rendering was completed on the outside 2 weeks after we moved in - meaning that with all the subsequent problems I still have not finished painting the outside. As the interior doors and skirtings were only finished the week before we moved I did not have time to do these before we moved and when we got in I decided to have a break from the decorating make the house a home before Christmas and get back to it in the new year…

[doingupnumber13]

The Timeline

September 2015 - we view and put an offer in on number 13.  The offer is accepted the next day.

February 2016 - sale finally goes through.

May 2016 - building work begins

December 2016 - building work is almost complete and we move in.

December 2016 - it is immediately apparent there is a problem.

March 2017 - the massive plumbing problem is unearthed.

May 2017 - we move out, out house is dismantled and drying out and repairs begin.

October 2017 - house should have been completed but there is another disaster.

December 2017 - still in our rented house - date for moving back in looks set to be March 2018........

[snagandinspect]

Expansion joint not installed right, water leaking into the level below damaging the structure, cars and more! This will be a costly repair! #buildingissues #inspection #construction #buildingproblems #mydubai #dubai #uae #realestate

[snagandinspect]

Elevator shaft with a ground water leak and rusting rebar. This is a long term damage. #buildinginspection #buildingproblems #inspection #realestate #construction #propertymanagement

[lyssarose89]

What happens when your package guy and reg mail guy are on vacay... Mind you they havent picked up any of our packages lately... Theyve been on vacation for like 2 weeks #buildingproblems

[rawritsalex-blog]

Ahhhhhhh, I fucked up my Minun again in Minecraft.

I hate re-scaling in here. I get confused sometimes and it throws everything off and I always seem to miss a block and I don't notice until later when I'm filling in and it looks terrible...