Loft conversion woes
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The SE report is independent but the consultant is required to give the report to the loft company as they are paying his fee. If they don't give me a copy of the report I will pay the same SE the 300 quid he said today cost and get a copy of the report. I "owe" £1k final payment so any costs to me I'm taking off the final bill..
So... Home insurance probably the place to start once I've seen the report.
Will also get BC round to explain how this happened.
The SE was very surprised that they had not flagged the work as being structural.
Tellingly the SE is the loft company's go to guy for structural work and is not involved in any of the current 16 jobs they are doing.. yikes!
So... Home insurance probably the place to start once I've seen the report.
Will also get BC round to explain how this happened.
The SE was very surprised that they had not flagged the work as being structural.
Tellingly the SE is the loft company's go to guy for structural work and is not involved in any of the current 16 jobs they are doing.. yikes!
Edited by bmwmike on Monday 13th March 20:41
In my friend's case, the Building Inspector was independant (ie. not Local Authority) and appears to have been signing jobs off without inspecting them properly.
The structural calculations appeared to have been done by someone who didn't know what they were doing and after independent inspection, beams, floor joists and rafters were found to be of inadequate size. Frightening when you think that these people are doing about 50 of these a year!
The structural calculations appeared to have been done by someone who didn't know what they were doing and after independent inspection, beams, floor joists and rafters were found to be of inadequate size. Frightening when you think that these people are doing about 50 of these a year!
Qcarchoo said:
In my friend's case, the Building Inspector was independant (ie. not Local Authority) and appears to have been signing jobs off without inspecting them properly.
The structural calculations appeared to have been done by someone who didn't know what they were doing and after independent inspection, beams, floor joists and rafters were found to be of inadequate size. Frightening when you think that these people are doing about 50 of these a year!
Interesting and yes scary. Actually this loft company had a private building inspector too, initially, and they charged me £500 for the privilege. Hilariously the loft company forgot to submit something in time so the regular council BC got involved. Was quite funny really as the council BC lady turns up at my door with a form of some sort and is half way through the sentence "I hope you have not started work yet" when a circular saw starts up stairs. The structural calculations appeared to have been done by someone who didn't know what they were doing and after independent inspection, beams, floor joists and rafters were found to be of inadequate size. Frightening when you think that these people are doing about 50 of these a year!
So I've had TWO sets of BC on this job and they still messed it up.
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