I hear Bett Homes / Gladedale have served an Interdict on one of this site's platinum boarders - Colin Jack.
I believe it is because of the wording on the website www.abadbett.com and one or two comments made on this website. Don't know the full details but I am led to believe that he has until the 27th of June 2008 to respond.
I hear Bett Homes / Gladedale have served an Interdict on one of this site's platinum boarders - Colin Jack.
I believe it is because of the wording on the website www.abadbett.com and one or two comments made on this website. Don't know the full details but I am led to believe that he has until the 27th of June 2008 to respond.
:kiss: It a shame they dont expend their efforts in fixing his snags
Regards the inderdict, all he has to do to change the wording around / terms and they will have to start over again :laugh: :evil:
Unfortunately it is not as simple as that. In one respect, as would be expected from a city law firm, the interdict was well crafted. However in another respect, the supporting information contained a number of flaws, inaccuracies and errors. If I have understood it correctly - one suggestion was made that through my actions I have caused a drop in Gladedale’s house sales????????? This is just my interpretation of it, but does this mean that Gladedale are not being affected by the current crisis that all the other house builders are experiencing?????????
In the past few weeks however the situation has gotten much worse. As such I am now extremely concerned for my and my family’s safety.
This is terrible, especially because it is affecting the safety of your family. They will be spending thousands on this - it would have cost less to simply fix your snags. As I have already said - a very strange decision.
Good luck and keep us posted
Tony
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Again, not quite as simple as that. By my estimation, using an industry standard method of measurement and schedule of rates, the cost of fixing the major snags alone would be in excess of £25K. Mind you this all depends on which methods they are going to use???
This is where the dispute lies. Bett Homes / Gladedale have for years refused to tell me:
1 When they will be coming to do the works.
2 What they are going to do when they appear and
3 How they are going to go about it.
No. 1 is pretty fundamental I would have thought – how can I take time off to let them in if I don’t know when they are coming??????
No. 2 is again pretty fundamental – how can I clear the work area of personal effects of I don’t know what or where the work area is going to be??????
No. 3 is a bit more serious – If they are going to do major structural work, will they be using scaffolding? Do I need safety gear or should I stay well out the way? Will I lose access to the house while the work is being carried out? Can I still live in the house when the work is being carried out? And so on.
I just don’t know. Bett Homes / Gladedale have stated they will fix the snags and we have the NHBC Resolution report which documents most of the snags, some are not in the report but Bett Homes / Gladedale have confirmed in writing that they will attend to these as well. They just won’t tell me when they are coming, what they are going to do and how they are going to do it.
Maybe this is why they are using the heavy tactics, because the work required may attract a lot of attention from other people who may start to check their own properties more thoroughly. I don’t know, but targeting a customer’s family member just isn’t on in my opinion. Who would have thought that buying a house from a company such as Bett Homes / Gladedale could be so dangerous? Or it is just me and my partner who have been singled out? Just hope nothing happens to our children.
I have exactly the same issues as you discussed. Stewart Milne have stated they would repair my leaking house months ago (January) and we still don't have a date. Just to make matters worse this week, more rain caused new water penetration to another two rooms to my home. In total 5 rooms with water penetration. Its the destruction and damage of watching your new home being destroyed when it could have been prevented.
Milne are not disputing the work required to be carried as per my surveyors report, however just appear to be ignoring us and lawyers letters. I contacted Aberdeen by email on Wednesday 9 July 2008, regarding the new defect and there has still been no comment from them or their lawyer.
Why don't they just stop wasting time and recify their customers issues satisfactorily to enable the unfortunate customers to at least say they corrected the defects timeously and effectively.
Hard to keep your chin up but its your investment and you have to keep fighting.
It is my opinion that Bett Homes / Gladedale are wasting so much time because I have asked them to do the one thing that they really really don't want to do. That is - I have asked them to tell me, in the form of drawings, specifications and method statements, what they are going to do before they do it. The Scottish Government and Falkirk Council both advise that it is “absolutely essential for individuals to obtain proper independent professional advice, since the temptation to take short cuts and minimise costs can prove extremely expensive in the longer term.” In order to get such professional advice I need to gain drawings, specifications and method statements which of course Bett Homes / Gladedale refuse to provide. Of the drawings they have provided to date all have significant errors in them e.g. the solution for reconstructing the bay window doesn’t have any DPC shown, doesn’t have any wall ties shown and so on. Even Falkirk Council queried the validity of the solution, but it is not up to Falkirk Council to check the solution complies with the Building Regulations, unfortunately it is me!
A situation arose recently where I queried the connection of Gladedale’s proposed garden drainage system into my house drainage. I contacted Scottish Water who immediately said – under no circumstances. I put this to Gladedale, who have now withdrawn this proposal via their solicitor. I say withdrawn because they haven’t provided any other solutions to the drainage problem to date. I believe this is a classic example of “the temptation to take short cuts and minimise costs can prove extremely expensive in the longer term”. Would it cost Gladedale? Oooooh no. It would be me that Scottish Water would come after, had I allowed the work to go ahead.
Some of the defects in my property at 16 Macdonald Court, Larbert directly affect the issue of the Completion Certificate, which I still haven't received from Bett Homes / Gladedale despite numerous requests. All of the defects that have caused the Certificate not to be issued were created during construction. Does this mean that when Bett Homes / Gladedale handed me the keys to my property, they were fully aware that the property did not comply with the Building Regulations or the terms and conditions of the Building Warrant????
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