buttonmoon
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I moved into a new 2-bed apartment in October. Just before Christmas, during a spell of heavy rain, the ceiling in the 2nd bedroom we started hearing dripping and within no time the ceiling was sodden.
I phoned the builders (they're still on site - there's another 6 blocks to go up so they'll be there for another 2 or 3 years) and they came up and "fixed" it - they said there was a pipe outside that was coming in and it hadn't been sealed in properly. They also said they would repaint the ceiling once it had dried up.
The next week it rained again and the water ended up coming through the ceiling and down the walls. They fixed it again, this time pulled the ceiling down in the two bedrooms and put up new ones. The builder told me that they also put up insulation into the ceiling - not because it was suppsed to be there in the first place but just because they decided it would be good to put it there while the ceilings were down anyway.
They have only repainted the ceilings last week and already there is a new wet stain the width of the room in teh second bedrrom again. I called the builder and he says its a different problem to the initial one and that they can fix it from outside (on the balcony above the room) and they will repaint the wet stain.
I'm not happy about this because I'm thinking that above the celing must be bloody soaking and that we could get all manners of problems like rotting plaster and mildew (maybe worse?) is a few years.
I've told the builder this and he's fobbed me off saying that the prob is fixed and all thats needed is a paint job.
Does anyone have any idea what I should do here? Should I be calling my solicitor? What potential problems could arise from painting over this?
I phoned the builders (they're still on site - there's another 6 blocks to go up so they'll be there for another 2 or 3 years) and they came up and "fixed" it - they said there was a pipe outside that was coming in and it hadn't been sealed in properly. They also said they would repaint the ceiling once it had dried up.
The next week it rained again and the water ended up coming through the ceiling and down the walls. They fixed it again, this time pulled the ceiling down in the two bedrooms and put up new ones. The builder told me that they also put up insulation into the ceiling - not because it was suppsed to be there in the first place but just because they decided it would be good to put it there while the ceilings were down anyway.
They have only repainted the ceilings last week and already there is a new wet stain the width of the room in teh second bedrrom again. I called the builder and he says its a different problem to the initial one and that they can fix it from outside (on the balcony above the room) and they will repaint the wet stain.
I'm not happy about this because I'm thinking that above the celing must be bloody soaking and that we could get all manners of problems like rotting plaster and mildew (maybe worse?) is a few years.
I've told the builder this and he's fobbed me off saying that the prob is fixed and all thats needed is a paint job.
Does anyone have any idea what I should do here? Should I be calling my solicitor? What potential problems could arise from painting over this?