Opinions please on if this re-felting is acceptable

[zosie]

But I don’t want hairs on my chest! I am feeling like a scorned woman though and now that my roof is done and dusted I am considering revenge.

I never contacted the first useless pervy roofer who gave me all the problems in the first place, he’s gotten off scot free. The second roofer’s punishment was not being paid and me dobbing him into Trading Standards but although he’ll be peeved with that it’s his own damn fault and I haven’t been compensated for my months of hell and minor damage to my home. I haven’t even phoned him and verbally assaulted him.

I had considered slating them on www.canyoutrustthem.com and writing a bad review on yell.com for the first roofer who’s on there, (the second roofer isn’t). Do you think I should? I often see the first roofer drive past me and I know he’s off to cause destruction to some other innocent unsuspecting person. It isn’t just my job he screwed up. He did roofing at my work and didn’t get that right and he balzed up his own next-door neighbour’s roof and caused them leaking for weeks on end. The latest thing is he felted their hut roof and even that came off in the wind and the disabled bloke that lives there had to nail it all back himself. Oh and he did the guttering to my next-door neighbour and that fell out of place in two areas, even my guttering at the back of my house isn’t right as he gave me a faulty T junction thingie. What can you do about these sort of people?

I don’t feel he should be able to just get away with shoddy work year after year, how can you make people like that suffer? I did consider going to his house and telling his wife how much of a pervert he is and how he sleazed all over me and was desperate to get me into bed. Is that a bad idea? Or maybe I should give his name to Trading Standards too? I doubt I can sue him for his bad work as I went about it all wrong, I never gave him the chance to remedy it (although I did complain about my gutter and he didn’t come back even though he said he’d pop back and take a look at it twice, plus my next-door neighbours complained about their gutter too within the guarantee period and he didn’t put theirs right, they got someone else in the end), this April I just figured there wasn’t any point, that he wouldn’t put it right free-of-charge 4 years later and by that time it was quite obvious that as roofing goes he’s USELESS! So I didn’t want him back. So I doubt I can sue him. & I haven’t got enough evidence and close up good photos of what he did. I think I should do something though. What do you think? Phone him up and give him hell? He lives a few minutes away I can cause a scene on the street. Report him to Trading Standards? Sl*g him off online? Any other ideas?

& what about this summer’s bad roofer? I thought about sueing him for the cost of changing my lock. I think I have a case, I can’t see how I’d lose it and that way I’d pay nothing for court costs as I’d get it back off him. I haven’t changed my lock but ideally it’d be a good idea. I have a bolt on the door and when I’m out its bolted so in theory he can’t get in, although there may be an occasion in the future when I’d like to leave out of that door and leave it unbolted. It’s inconvenient thinking I always have to have it bolted just incase. & he should be punished for withholding my key. I didn’t do anything wrong. I was nice and friendly to him throughout him messing up my roof, it’s not like I was a complete cow and deserved what I got. & it’d look good in court that Trading Standards have asked him to return my key and he hasn’t, ditto with me in writing twice. I was considering sending the police knocking to ask for it. I went to a police open day a while ago and talked about my problems with a couple of officers on the legal and locksmith stalls (conveniently side-by-side) and they said they might be willing to go and have a word with him and ask for it. If officers turned up on his door that’d be a bit of a slap in the face for him and if he refuses to hand it over then off to court I could go although perhaps it’s treading on ice, if he countersued for me not paying and a loony judge rules in his favour then I’d be way peeved. I feel he should get some form of comeuppance though, I’m still aggravated. I thought about sending him a letter with extreme nastiness in it but I’m not sure if that’s breaking the law. Or shall I just phone him and tell him what I think of him? Or do nothing?

To be honest I am a natural complainer. I’m stubborn and petty, I’ve battled with banks with letters back and forth and not letting matters lie until I’m compensated. I’ve gone to extreme lengths for justice and not given up whereas normal people would just let it go. I am special that way. I even took a bag of crisps back to Aldi on the weekend for a refund. It was a faulty batch, they didn’t have much flavor, I was sat there eating them getting peed off that I was absorbing the saturated fat and calories but without the enjoyment so I took them back. I could… so I did. I think more people should make a stand against things, wonder how many people the first cowboy roofer wronged before he hit my house? Maybe it could have been prevented if others had reported him and tried to get him to cease trading. He just seems to go from place to place doing inferior work, someone should stop him. When he drives past me I wonder where he’s going and wish I could warn the homeowners.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

For the benefit of anyone else who may not be inclined to read that essay I think the gist is:

My chest is hairy enough thank you and I'm not happy

/hasn't read it btw

 

[zosie]

What are you like!

 

[Nige F]

You`ve had more roofers round than you could shake a stick (with pants on ) at you should get a job @ Watchdog

 

[zosie]

To be honest I have been feeling like I am wasted in my current job and that I should do something that I’d really enjoy, the thought has crossed my mind that to get real job satisfaction I may be better off working for Trading Standards and to be able to blight the lives of people and businesses who do wrong. I’d like that.

 

[noseall]

You seem to have a lot of negative energy. Your karma and moral compass needs a re-set.

I agree that there are shysters out there who the public could do without, but there are a lot of wannabe tradespeople that just need guidance rather than a thrashing from an over-zealous clipboard holder.

I remember starting out on my own and how difficult it was to get the balance of pricing and quality correct.

In my opinion, the best people to regulate the trades are not some eager pencil neck, office dwelling loudmouth jobsworths but someone who has actually been there and done it.

 

[zosie]

Damn, does that mean I have to stay working here forever?

 

[zosie]

My fourth roof is leaking.

Can somebody please shoot me and put me out of my misery.

 

[kingandy2nd]

I have followed this story quitely from the sidelines.

Sorry to hear of your problems (again) zosie as the last guy looked to have done a pretty good looking job.

Time to cut your losses and move house

 

[zosie]

I’ve now asked Santa to come down my chimney stack in the middle of the night with a shotgun and blow my brains out instead. Hopefully he'll deliver.


Although I’ve spoken to the last roofer about it today and he was nice enough and said he’d come to fix it either next Tuesday or Wednesday. He did give a 10 year guarantee, whether its worth the paper its written on remains to be seen. I shall find out if he doesn’t come I guess.


I’ll report back later.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Why not use the guarantee as a patch it will be more effective!

shouldn't laugh though really , really not that funny!

 

[kingandy2nd]

I’ve now asked Santa to come down my chimney stack in the middle of the night with a shotgun and blow my brains out instead. Hopefully he'll deliver.


Although I’ve spoken to the last roofer about it today and he was nice enough and said he’d come to fix it either next Tuesday or Wednesday. He did give a 10 year guarantee, whether its worth the paper its written on remains to be seen. I shall find out if he doesn’t come I guess.


I’ll report back later.

That'll depend if you're on Santa's nice list or not

Hopefully the guy will come back and sort the problem, but I'm always a bit wary when people don't given an exact time/date for their intended visit.

 

[noseall]

Is it deffo a leak and not condensation?

 

[zosie]

It’s a leak, not a big one but there were a couple of trickles of water coming down the brickwork in the loft under where my tiles butt into my neighbour’s on the left chimney. Haven’t had a leak in that spot before. Hopefully it should be simple to fix. Bummer that it’s happened though cos I was hoping it was a perfect job and I wouldn’t be having problems again. Makes me wonder if anything else will crop up later.

Also my brother has just bought a house that needs re-roofing (slate roof with dormer window and other windows on the roof, plus a bit of roof over the living room window area), I said he should get my roofer to do it, would you still think I should be encouraging him to have him? Do even the best roofers have little snagging problems with jobs or do you think I should tell him to get someone else? I wouldn’t want to be responsible for him ending up with problems. Part of the roof space inside his new house is inaccessible and can’t be inspected, if he got a leak he wouldn’t know about it ‘til it came through the ceiling.

 

[zosie]

You’ve got me thinking now... condensation doesn’t form trickles of water down brickwork does it? I’ve only ever really looked at leaks in summer.


I’ve actually had condensation problems in my living room and that was more widespread. A few weeks ago my emulsion under my picture rail decided it would turn itself into liquid form again and run down my walls. It looks as though it’s been painted but too much paint was on the brush and it’s run, it kinda looks like that, except for in the corner of the room where there’s been one big drip that’s gone from 6 foot high down to the skirting board. That’ll teach me for bringing all my wet washing into the living room to dry and shutting the door. The next time I do another wash I’m gonna do the same thing, wait ‘til my paint is nice and damp and then I’m gonna have to get a rag and wipe it all so it mixes in and doesn’t look like it’s had water damage and then this time either keep the heat on or open the door.


I don’t have much look with water damage. My living room already suffered a load of water coming straight through the walls in one storm. It dripped down onto my window cill and down the inside of my door. Made a mess of my wood door frame and the wallpaper’s all wrinkled. Here's a couple of old pics of my storm damage in my living room, I don't think I've posted them on here before.

Wrinkled wallpaper 07-01-12.

Wood door frame expanded and cracks appeared.