insurance guru?

[REDSAW]

been to a grade 2 listed flat today subbing for national firm, tennant reported blocked sink serving dishwasher and washing macine on a 40mm 7m internal run=all blocked, been like it 3 weeks!.

filled the sink with inch or two of water and tried plunging it. unbeknown to me it started coming out off the hocky stick, (about a half a bowl) behind dishwasher.

downstairs tennant came home this evening and called me that the ceiling has a bulge, the wall papers stained and the childs bed bellow is wet. she wants to know whos paying for it and the mattress?

problem is, i dont know if its a direct consequencs of plunging or it just added to the saturation allready in the ceiling but it is the first time it showed downstairs today.

i di say to the tennant above that i am unable to clear it and it would be reported back to the office to call in dyno rod as the pipes were inacessible. i also mentioned that a few kettles of boiling water may clear it but would take me too long to do (tried a couple why i was there), but dont use it untill they have been. she called me later in the day and told me she was going to be charged for it by the landlord and told me she had poured boiling water down the sink because i said it might work!

there after my bum?

what do you guys think

 

[Leo21]

They haven't got a thing on you mate. You told her something might work, and not to do it "apparently"?
The blockage was there before you started, how can a ceiling and a bed get soaked by half a bowl?

 

[tamz]

The problem with subbing to national companies is the people think they are claiming Big Pumb /Gas whoever, but as you are about to find out they will move it straight to you quicker than shyt off a shovel, no questions asked, it will be your problem.

Wore that T shirt a few times :wink:

 

[REDSAW]

They haven't got a thing on you mate. You told her something might work, and not to do it "apparently"?
The blockage was there before you started, how can a ceiling and a bed get soaked by half a bowl?

bed directly beneath the upstasirs kitchen sink.
might have been a bit more that half bowl as i was there a while and as you do when you pull a joint some comes out before you get a towel and bowel around it!.
theres all holes on the floor boards too, skirting missing leaving a gap!!
i reacon shes been lobbing boiling water down to avoid the bill from landlord?. nice people though wich makes it worse along with the barking woman below.......

 

[REDSAW]

got to see the downstairs landlord tomorrow to see the damage and whos paying for it?
think 2 tennants are going to side up here?

 

[Leo21]

Stick to your guns, it's not your fault.

 

[tamz]

You are gonna get landed with it whatever you say.
Take your cheque book with you. An offer of cash straight away can nip it in the bud.
Make them an offer and if they accept get them to sign a receipt (on the back of a *** packet if you like) saying payment of £*** acepted in full and final settlement for damages to blah blah blah
Date it sign it and get them to sign it.

 

[REDSAW]

earnt bugger all for job too!.

cheaper to send through insurers is it not?

sure the woman above as had a go flushing it with boiling water!

 

[lame plumber]

If it were me, I would point to the landlord of the above property and tell those below to sue him after all, it was his blockage that caused the problem, his faulty plumbing etc, you only inspected and found it needed a more extensive solution to the problem, you neither caused or added to the problem and it is up to them to prove otherwise, admit nothing and be a coke bottle, no shoulders not my fault

 

[tamz]

earnt bugger all for job too!.

cheaper to send through insurers is it not?

sure the woman above as had a go flushing it with boiling water!

You will have an excess then next year you are on record as having a claim so your insurance will bump up.
If she is reasonable just deal with her direct. Once upon a time £50 covered most things but it is a couple of hundred min. these days.
Just play it by ear. If she is a greedy bstd let her deal with the insurance.

 

[tamz]

And as lame said admit to fk all. If you do pay her anything it is as a goodwill gesture.

 

[REDSAW]

the fact is, if you run the tap now, then the water will eventually come out of the hockey stick!.
so that could be proven before it gets fixed that its blocked and faulty causing flooding downstairs right?

 

[REDSAW]

my excess is £250!
wrong place at wrong time me thinks?

 

[lame plumber]

the fact is, if you run the tap now, then the water will eventually come out of the hockey stick!.
so that could be proven before it gets fixed that its blocked and faulty causing flooding downstairs right?

so as i said, not your problem, landlord issue!, just take some pics, prove your point and stiff letter in response if needed. Worked for me when my neighbour accused me of flooding him out due to my building works. Told his insurers to poke it, cited the fact the **** lifted his manhole cover when it rained as his drains were blocked at the gulleys, hence why during a deluge the manhole backed up and diverted through his backdoor (on the 2nd floor) and ran down stairs out his front door!! Pleasures of having a house on a hillside, you can still get flash flooding, me I installed kerb stones to keep that nasty muddy water out, which worked

 

[tamz]

Probably.
Try arguing your case but if they get on to the co. you were subbing to expect them to tell you to get it sorted. They couldn't gaf whose fault it is.