DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Bad Builders

Firstly, my apologies for not posting last weeks award  until today. It seems that I didn’t press the Publish button last week.

This particular property has been winning awards for poor workmanship for over a year. We keep getting called back in for one problem, get it sorted, and then several months later get called in for something else. This week was another  issue with the central heating system and another wet patch showing up on the ceiling. There may also be a hive of bees in the flat roof too!

So I think it’s finally time to name the new build terraced property in question. The property is located on River Street in Manchester City Centre. We have documented via hundreds of photos the poor workmanship, shoddy design and damages caused by the aforementioned issues.

When we arrived we were also asked to look at a section of downstairs flooring which is lifting up and causing the door to scrape along the floor. There is a dark discolouration around the same lifting boards denoting yet another leak from somewhere. That somewhere has yet to be located but we have started the hunt

We also had to look at another wet patch in the lounge on the next floor up. It was a patch from the original issue we sorted last year but has appeared again after decorating. This patch might be coming from the bathroom above and we are slipping cameras into the walls to try and locate the problem.

The entire property is built from stressed concrete and then has steel stud work is hung throughout the property. The mechanicals are all put in and then the walls are sealed up. There is no map of where anything runs and from what we’ve seen there is no consistency in the quality work that was done. Different manufacturers fittings are used in different areas of the property. Before we departed this week we opened up a downstairs crawl space hatch to find that the builders were kind enough to leave there building rubbish in when they were finished. Nice!!

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