Must start by apologizing for the language but to be honest it’s really how it seems today…I’d been trying to avoid giving an engineer have a look at the building but the structural problems were so many that it was really a necessity… The reason why I didn’t really want them to have a look at it is that whilst you are ignorant you can cope with it, now that I know the extent of the problem I really don’t know what to do!
In less than 5 minutes he was saying that the only responsible thing was to pull it down and restart! Honest! He said that everywhere that we had retaining walls that they needed to be done properly otherwise we couldn’t guarantee that they would last more than 10 years… Sue the previous builder? Yes that should happen!
He met me on site today and although it was already really dark this was his immediate opinion. Imagine if there had been plenty of light??? He said that the concrete blocks 150mm, being made of river sand would not be stable if they started being contaminated by water… now since there are no DPMs or DPCs in place that is not an if but a when…
I’m really not feeling happy with the whole situation but we are already trying to sort it out the best possible way… Let you know tomorrow how we are going to tackle this… the builder has already claimed that he might try to absorb some of the costs in his social responsibility policy but what really concerns me now is the time to complete it!
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