NHBC Butchered My Roof

[tiffanywelch]

Mortar testing started today, unfortunately matters took a turn for the worse and the brick walls are unstable and move!!! The matter has been made worse by the roof, which is moving and knocking the unstable left gable wall. Now where getting into why the house was shaking during the high winds (in addition to the roof making it shake).

The Mortar itself practically fell out and did not put up any resistance when raked out. I am not scientific but I can see its going to fail.

I have requested that I be moved out and put into temporary accommodation and my possessions be put in storage, after seeing how wrecked the walls are I no longer feel safe and I fear the imminent collapse of the left gable.

Ive had to serve notice on next door warning them on the danger and I have had to ask Royal Mail not to deliver mail here. Tomorrow I have to put up a barrier to stop people coming onto the property.

Spent most of the day walking around shocked and in a daze roof replacement canberra. My heads up my arse because I dont want to move out, dont know where I will go and dont know how any of this is going to pan out.

We moved into a new build last year and as with most new builds... there's absolutely NO cupboards to store things in. I have a garage which has a pitch roof so I'm thinking of putting some loft boards on to the trusses and use that as storage. The only thing that's stopping me is the risk that daring to do this to my own property will invalidate our NHBC warranty.

I can understand the cop-out that the builders might be able to use about putting up loft boards in the roofspace of the of the house itself (because of thermal values etc) but the garage !?!?!

My main question would be...... will it only void the warranty on just the garage or will it void the entire warranty across the whole property?

 

[Zerli]

Using loft boards in the garage is usually fine and shouldn't void the whole NHBC warranty, but it's best to double-check the terms or ask NHBC directly. Just keep heavier stuff out of it to be safe.