annoyed with council!! GGRRR!!

[beebybaby]

Well i have had to wait in all day today, and have the day off work to do so. Waiting in for approx 2 mins!!! When we decided to decorate DS's room when we took the wallpaper off the plaster came off with it. The people who we exchanged with have obviousley not decorated 'properly', they had tried to take paper off found the wall coming away and stuck it back down with paint!!

The council guy looked at it and said, you have used a steamer!!! ER no we have not!!!...i argued the point but he took no notice. The previous tenants also decided to stuff the airvent with newspaper and put a board over it, when we took it off..hey presto a broken airvent with numberous dead spiders!!!

The council guy said 'we will get you a cover for it that you can open and shut!!'...ER HELLO it's bloody broken dude!!!

F-in useless!!! GGGRRRR!!!

[beebybaby]

oh, forgot to mention ,,
my DS who is 7 and DD who is 13 are having to share a room!!! because of the above..when i mentioned this to the council guy he said' oh bet that isnt going down a treat!!' i replied actually you will find it is illegal and i could sue your arse for that!! hee hee

[Purplecat]

when we move into our house the idiot that lived here before had tarmaced over the vent bricks at the base of the house while doing his own drive, giving us damp, he had removed all the plaster from the chimmley breast and replaced it with standard wood, on a bliddy open fire place, and stuck it up with no-more nails!!

they had also removed all the central heating, apparently coz their son had asthma, why just not use it????

Oh, and screwed most of the windows shut coz the handles had broken off, this still has not been sorted as it would cost far too much.

There are some idiots out there, local councils are the biggest of them!

[beebybaby]

your telling me !!! i cannot believe some people. When the council do exchanges they should do a full check from top to bottom. They wont touch our kitchen as it is not 20 years old or older and wont touch the bathroom unless its 40 years old or older!!! what a joke.

How long have you been where you are then, and have you managed to get any work done by the council from what you mentioned?

We have an open fire, which the prev tenants wallpapered over and put a lamp inside??? the mind boggles!!

BTW gorgeous ducky!! i want one now!!! but think one of my 5 babies (cats) might like it for their tea xx

[scaramatic]

dont get me started on my squat!

[beebybaby]

dont get me started on my squat!

hee hee go on tell us!!! :hysterica

[Purplecat]

ours is private now but was council when the prat did the work, you'd think the council would check the state of them before they allowed them to be sold.

A friend of mine did an exchange a few years back and before she could move in she had to do loads of work, the other people were still living there but she couldn't let her kids move in till it was safe, the council wouldn't do it and the people there couldn't care less.

We heard, on the grapevine that is pinehurst gossip that the people who lived in our house were going to move into the house across the road, so we made a list of all the things they did to this house and another family has now moved in there, thank god!

My cats stare at Tinker, but I have informed them that the duck cost far more than they did (they were free LOL), and if they touch the duck there will be trouble!!

[scaramatic]

hee hee go on tell us!!! :hysterica

i will when i get an hour or two to write it all down :hysterica

[ruthie]

The thing is when you do a council swap you sign to say you agree to take the house as it is, well you always use to.

[Easties]

The thing is when you do a council swap you sign to say you agree to take the house as it is, well you always use to.

Yep as far as im aware this is still the case

[scaramatic]

The thing is when you do a council swap you sign to say you agree to take the house as it is, well you always use to.

yeah so check the loft for mice, flush the loo for leaks, put the heating on to make sure theres no leaks, open every door in the kitchen, check all the locks on the doors. check every window for handles etc etc

[smirnoff]

we have just done a swap. with a swap you take it as it is or not at all. Here brothers and sisters are able to shar a room until the youngest one is 8 i believe.

really if you had seen ours when we moved in (ask Katiequiggle or my mum) then you wouldnt complain about a bit of wallpaper!

[Purplecat]

yeah so check the loft for mice, flush the loo for leaks, put the heating on to make sure theres no leaks, open every door in the kitchen, check all the locks on the doors. check every window for handles etc etc

don't forget to check the ceiling light fittings are still in place either:cheesy: I mean, why take them???oh, and between looking round and moving in they also remove all the doors!

[scaramatic]

don't forget to check the ceiling light fittings are still in place either:cheesy: I mean, why take them???oh, and between looking round and moving in they also remove all the doors!

ours took the doors too, god knows why as we left all ours, we had to replace light fittings and plug sockets too:D

[scaramatic]

they papered over a door ??? and over the pipes pmsl . class eh!

[beebybaby]

we have just done a swap. with a swap you take it as it is or not at all. Here brothers and sisters are able to shar a room until the youngest one is 8 i believe.

really if you had seen ours when we moved in (ask Katiequiggle or my mum) then you wouldnt complain about a bit of wallpaper!

I can believe it, but its not a bit of wallpaper im complainin about, its the fact that all the plaster has come off the wall with the old paper!! The council dont seem bothered in the slightest!! i mean its the whole wall

They are totally different from our council back up north, i dont think they would bother if the flipping house fell down to be honest.

Hope you are managing to get more sorted than we are...in our agreement it states the items we are responsable for like the interior doors and side gate (any diy by previous tenant) i have 6 items on my list which are my responsability, the rest is down to the council.

[beebybaby]

don't forget to check the ceiling light fittings are still in place either:cheesy: I mean, why take them???oh, and between looking round and moving in they also remove all the doors!

Yeah!! ours here swapped the light fittings for ones off lamps believe it or not!! and the doors had holes punched in them too...gutted...as we left our new doors there!!

[Peridot30]

I can believe it, but its not a bit of wallpaper im complainin about, its the fact that all the plaster has come off the wall with the old paper!! The council dont seem bothered in the slightest!! i mean its the whole wall


MY mum has stripped the walls in a few of her rooms over the last year and has paid to have the walls plastered (there were holes and huge chunks missing and they said all they would do is fill up the biggest holes. WTF so, so far she has paid to get 3 rooms fully plastered in her council house. I think its a disgrace as she has lived in council accomodation always and has always paid all her bills and then still has to fork out to pay for her walls to be flat!!! COuncils nowadays are shocking!!!

[beebybaby]

MY mum has stripped the walls in a few of her rooms over the last year and has paid to have the walls plastered (there were holes and huge chunks missing and they said all they would do is fill up the biggest holes. WTF so, so far she has paid to get 3 rooms fully plastered in her council house. I think its a disgrace as she has lived in council accomodation always and has always paid all her bills and then still has to fork out to pay for her walls to be flat!!! COuncils nowadays are shocking!!!

Thats disgusting, she should send the bill to the council or something..that is shocking. Why cant councils at least meet us half way?? My son has atopic eczema and asthma which is why he cannot be in that room as it is as there is too much dust (he is allergic to dust). We have explained to the council and they have not been bothered.

[scaramatic]

they are the landlords at the end of the day and we pay rent just like if we were paying private landlords, they must take responsibility for what is their property at the end of the day.

[beebybaby]

they are the landlords at the end of the day and we pay rent just like if we were paying private landlords, they must take responsibility for what is their property at the end of the day.

I fully agree with you, which is why we have put in a formal complaint today when the council guy came to look at the wall, and acused us of using a steamer!! WTF, i dont even know how to use a steamer!!! ..... or maybe it was the steam firing out of my ears that did it!!! :hysterica

[smirnoff]

I can believe it, but its not a bit of wallpaper im complainin about, its the fact that all the plaster has come off the wall with the old paper!! The council dont seem bothered in the slightest!! i mean its the whole wall

They are totally different from our council back up north, i dont think they would bother if the flipping house fell down to be honest.

Hope you are managing to get more sorted than we are...in our agreement it states the items we are responsable for like the interior doors and side gate (any diy by previous tenant) i have 6 items on my list which are my responsability, the rest is down to the council.

no, we have to do it all... plaster coming off? blimey we had 5 years worth of household rubbish, broken slides, computers, broken motorbikes etc in the garden when we moved in that they had been told they had to clear, but we had swapped so down to us, same as the rubbish in the front garden, same as all the holes in the doors, walls, floors i kid you not. There is only 1 hole that the council agreed to fix, they wouldnt even fix the stair treds properly or remove the "adult graffitti" in the toilet.

[scaramatic]

yeah so check the loft for mice, flush the loo for leaks, put the heating on to make sure theres no leaks, open every door in the kitchen, check all the locks on the doors. check every window for handles etc etc

oh yeah.. ( im on a roll tonight) you must always lift the toilet seat to make sure the lid doesnt fall down on you everytime you stand up and put soap on the sink to make sure that the sink and toilet are level!! how can you check these things before you do an exchange, belive me if i done another one i would now... oh by the way let me see your loft for evidence of mice please!

[beebybaby]

no, we have to do it all... plaster coming off? blimey we had 5 years worth of household rubbish, broken slides, computers, broken motorbikes etc in the garden when we moved in that they had been told they had to clear, but we had swapped so down to us, same as the rubbish in the front garden, same as all the holes in the doors, walls, floors i kid you not. There is only 1 hole that the council agreed to fix, they wouldnt even fix the stair treds properly or remove the "adult graffitti" in the toilet.

OMG that is disgusting, how can the council leave all that down to you. That is just not on...bet you left your old house in pretine condition like we did??!!

[smirnoff]

tbh Its a lovely house when you look past all that. I am just so glad that we were able to swap. We cant afford to rent a shed in someones back garden round here, so i am more than grateful for anything! ok so it needs some work, but its ours, its a secure house to raise my children and for that i am eternally grateful.