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Re: Gas mains has damaged my Sewage drain. Help please?
So it took a bit long than I'd planned...
Certainly, though I expect that Labman might be more polite.
It is always a bit difficult, especially if it might involve a steatopygous council employee reducing the wear on office seating.
Legal advice should not be too expensive, as an initial consultation should only cost a modest fee and, if you speak to the duty solicitor at your local CAB (link to find it) it need not cost anything at all.
That is a pity, but it should not matter too much.
To offer a mere £70 for the repeated loss of amenity due to your garden being flooded is, frankly, an insult. They've decided to haggle and to play at Silly Buggers.
Excellent!
Disputes with one's neighbours - of which any prospective buyer must be informed - are almost certain to reduce the value of one's property. That could provide another cause for damages to be payable, in addition to the loss of "quiet enjoyment" of your property you suffered as the result of negligence by the numpties or navvies from National Grid. I have no idea of how much you could claim, though. A solicitor should, though.
Originally posted by CleverClogs
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Originally posted by funkyphantom
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I havent gotten in touch with my local council as I'm not really sure who to contact. I did call them to ask who i needed to speak to about a week ago, but I got no reply.
I'm kind of thinking I will need to contact a Solicitor/Lawyer about this, should a stern letter to their head honcho not get me anywhere. Or should I get legal advice before I send the letter? The only problem is, is I don't have much or any spare money available, wouldn't legal advise be costly?
I don't have photos of the turd torrent unfortunately, although there are remnants of toilet paper still around the grid and on my steps, which i have purposefully left for National Grid to see. Should i take photos of this? I do have pictures of the pipe going through my sewage drain though.
I guess they think I am lying about how much trouble I have had with this drain since we moved in as I have no receipts to back it up. If I had paid for every time the drain got blocked, I would be in a heck of a lot more debt now than I am already!
I think the only evidence that I may have that could prove me right would be if my neighbours would be prepared to back me up. Although they don't really speak to me, as we had an argument about the smell from the drain a couple years ago!
Disputes with one's neighbours - of which any prospective buyer must be informed - are almost certain to reduce the value of one's property. That could provide another cause for damages to be payable, in addition to the loss of "quiet enjoyment" of your property you suffered as the result of negligence by the numpties or navvies from National Grid. I have no idea of how much you could claim, though. A solicitor should, though.
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