I bought a new house 3 years ago and a week before we moved in there was a bad flood in one of the upstairs en-suites (nobody noticed that someone had turned on the shower which is power - from 3 bar pump- coming from the tank, e.s.b. turned on, and water going everywhere). Developer did not provide any shower fittings with finished house. Would not have been told of flood had we not called to see why the wait in signing over the house. They had a few commercial de-humidifiers going to dry the place out. Water flowing down the walls to ground floor.
3 years later, and I have been having trouble with the shower that flooded. Firstly the sealeant kept going mouldy on me and I have replaced it twice. Then I noticed a horrible smell (damp and stagnant water) and threw lots of drain cleaner down to get rid of that, nothing.... Finally, last week I was once again taking out the blackened sealant when two of the tiles came off and the wall (plasterboard) is rotton behind. There is not a leak, but I think the wall may not have been fully dry (if it ever could be) when we had it tiled and a shower enclosure fitted. We weren't told not to, and we did need to have the shower working. If we were told not to use that one for 6 months or so to let the wall dry properly, we could have had one of the others done immediately(we moved in December and it was mental to get a tiler to do even one shower). I think the wall just rotted as there was no way for it to dry naturally when the tiles were put over it. I have spoken to the site manager who is managing another developement for the same developers, and he is trying to fob me off with comments like: 'you should not have moved in until it was dry', 'of course it was dry, how did the tiles stick if it was wet', 'we may have to bring in an engineer to have a look at this', 'I will try and call to see it when I have time'.
Have I any comeback with the developers or do I have to put in new walls and buy everything again (shower enclosure, tiles, etc...)
Has anyone else had anything like this happen to them.....
Lyonsie
3 years later, and I have been having trouble with the shower that flooded. Firstly the sealeant kept going mouldy on me and I have replaced it twice. Then I noticed a horrible smell (damp and stagnant water) and threw lots of drain cleaner down to get rid of that, nothing.... Finally, last week I was once again taking out the blackened sealant when two of the tiles came off and the wall (plasterboard) is rotton behind. There is not a leak, but I think the wall may not have been fully dry (if it ever could be) when we had it tiled and a shower enclosure fitted. We weren't told not to, and we did need to have the shower working. If we were told not to use that one for 6 months or so to let the wall dry properly, we could have had one of the others done immediately(we moved in December and it was mental to get a tiler to do even one shower). I think the wall just rotted as there was no way for it to dry naturally when the tiles were put over it. I have spoken to the site manager who is managing another developement for the same developers, and he is trying to fob me off with comments like: 'you should not have moved in until it was dry', 'of course it was dry, how did the tiles stick if it was wet', 'we may have to bring in an engineer to have a look at this', 'I will try and call to see it when I have time'.
Have I any comeback with the developers or do I have to put in new walls and buy everything again (shower enclosure, tiles, etc...)
Has anyone else had anything like this happen to them.....
Lyonsie