Vacumatic
Testy
It is a two storey stone built house.
What made your day a crap one?
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SpeedyPC
The Dark Lord of Wet Shaving
Wow…. stone built house, sounds like mortar issue in between stone walls, isn’t steal property causing rain water coming in very slowly over time causing mold and damp issue? Maybe?
SpeedyPC
The Dark Lord of Wet Shaving
Vacumatic
Testy
Taken my car in for an oil change into main dealers, you would not believe the push back from the dealer that I had for wanting an oil change, anyway a different story.
The screen washer bottle was also leaking badly, to be dealt with under warranty.
Real issue is that the garage has phoned to say that it needs a door mirror cover which will be £220, completely missing.
I am certain that the mirror covers were there when I took the car in at 7.30, my car was the first one in Customer Parking, I left in a taxi around 7.50. The dealers are in a modern building with loads of CCTV, if the cover was missing as I drove in I will pay their bill, they are looking through the CCTV now but it seems odd that they have taken over an hour to do so and have not been back.
The screen washer bottle was also leaking badly, to be dealt with under warranty.
Real issue is that the garage has phoned to say that it needs a door mirror cover which will be £220, completely missing.
I am certain that the mirror covers were there when I took the car in at 7.30, my car was the first one in Customer Parking, I left in a taxi around 7.50. The dealers are in a modern building with loads of CCTV, if the cover was missing as I drove in I will pay their bill, they are looking through the CCTV now but it seems odd that they have taken over an hour to do so and have not been back.
Vacumatic
Testy
Turned out that the CCTV showed the mirrors were intact when the car was parked. It turned out that they had put the car through a car wash which knocked off the mirror cover, when they saw it was missing they phoned to say that they wanted £220 to replace it.
Gairdner
Forum GOD!
Sherman Tankers!
Vacumatic
Testy
Roofing contractor is on the roof now, he has lifted some tiles and the batons are completely rotten caused by some cracked tiles which has let rainwater in and the lining material didn't allow the batons to dry out naturally. I was shocked to see how rotten they were.
Patch new lining is going in today along with the batons which have been cut back to good wood and a piece put in, covered by replacement tiles.
Not looking forward to hearing the price when he comes down from the roof.
A new roof will be needed when the spring weather arrives, this will mean scaffolding around the house and new lining, batons and tiles, but it is needed so I need to shut up and pay up
Sorry to hear about your roofing troubles. As they say it is part of the joys of owning a house. Nothing for it but to grit your teeth and pay.
Bob
SpeedyPC
The Dark Lord of Wet Shaving
Vacumatic
Testy
I have home insurance but I think insurers would regard this type of incident as wear and tear, they like to protect you solely for losses that are sudden and unforeseen
Do you have home insurance to take the pressure off your back?
Gairdner
Forum GOD!
That all sounds very nasty pocket wise. Don’t they appreciate you’re a well known member of a shaving forum? Don’t they take into account shaving related acquisition disorders? Not very PC of them, indeed, most discriminatory. Seriously though, hope all goes well. I have a sneaky feeling that such issues are in my future…
Vacumatic
Testy
I had no idea of the scale of the problem. I had seen a damp patch in the corner of the plaster on one bedroom, about the size of your hand and assumed it was a ridge tile, a roofer said that they were fine but cleared a lot of moss from them on the basis that the moss might be acting as a conduit but the damp continued.That all sounds very nasty pocket wise. Don’t they appreciate you’re a well known member of a shaving forum? Don’t they take into account shaving related acquisition disorders? Not very PC of them, indeed, most discriminatory. Seriously though, hope all goes well. I have a sneaky feeling that such issues are in my future…
This morning the contractor went on to the roof and found six cracked tiles, he lifted them to replace them and saw that the batons were completely rotten from rainwater getting through the cracks and the roof lining being non breathable, apparently modern linings are much better. Two roofers worked on the roof this morning replacing the tiles and putting a good lining underneath, charged £400 which I thought was reasonable. A quote is coming to replace all the batons, all the tiles and a new lining, I have a gut feeling that this will be £10,000+ plus skip hire and scaffolding.
Vacumatic
Testy
The outcome of all this was a bit of a surprise. It turned out that the garage had damaged the mirror cover but still wanted us to pay for it
Mrs Vac went to collect the car, I should explain that when she has a bee in her bonnet about anything she can create more fear than a cross between Vlad the Impaler and a pack of stormtroopers. She sensed that she had been lied to and ripped off and was in no mood to take prisoners, if they had held their hands up an sorry, we screwed up it would have been a different matter, they chose a different path.
This morning she receives an email from the service manager of the garage, 'You may receive an email questionnaire on service satisfaction from Audi, could we ask that you don't respond to it!'
Never heard of anything like that before.
Randy
Legendary Member
It's getting hot or it's my idea?