Roofing dispute

[Chanevaeh]

My neighbour had recently had a new roof, due to the properties being terraced they’ve had to overlap onto our roof (slate). Where they’ve used a guttering trim down the centre of the properties (myself and neighbour) it’s causing our tiles to tilt. They also left our ridge insecure for weeks and when we had bad weather it’s caused 2 of our ridge tiles that they’ve left lose to fall (caught on doorbell video and this was 6 seconds away from landing on someone) when they have finally secured my ridge it’s now very uneven to the eye (before and after photos were taken as evidence). We didn’t have a secure or water tight ridge for a few days and had rain fall, we can’t physically see any water damage to ceiling and walls and we do have a really good amount of insulation in the loft, but where day light wasn’t visible within the loft before it is now coming through the slates (we don’t have felt) we’ve had our roof looked at by 2 different roofers who have told me that we have no dry rot and no slipping so our roof will last until any of that happens, ( the company doing the neighbours roof said the reason my ridge doesn’t sit straight is because our roof is f***** and he can’t work miracles. Which is why we had someone come out and inspect it incase it was indeed our roof that was at fault. The ridge was fine before any work started and before our roof was disturbed by the neighbours contractors. I have before and after photos of the ridge and before and after photos and videos of the daylight the was visible in the loft. How do I go about getting our ridge corrected and sitting flat as it was before? As the company used we’re not a local company and after many emails back and forth with the company they haven’t been helpful. Even when the ridge fell close to landing on someone 101 advised me to contact highways, highways told me the contractors had to come out and corden of the path and notify them of the path closure, this also wasn’t done! Leaving a huge health and safety issue for 2 days aswell as my roof not being water tight. They never notified us or asked us about disrupting our roof and eventually polite conversations turnt into argument with the contractors. Who is liable to come correct the word and straighten it up as it wasn’t left how it was found? Although I’ve been told the ridge is watertight by another roofer he has also told me they could have done a lot better and neater job. And also concerned if rain has gotten in as we have a large downfall that it’s now going to be absorbed into my insulation making it heavier. Any help or advise would be hugely appreciated thank you!

[atticus]

1. Next time you post, please break up the wall of text into paragraphs. Have pity on your reader!

2. It appears that if you have a claim it is more likely to be against the contractor than your neighbour.

3. Contact your home insurer.

[efpom]

In my opinion, any claim you make, or your insurer acting on your behalf makes, including consequential loss, would be the expenditure in putting right the damage caused to your dwelling by your neighbour. It would be a claim in tort NOT contract.

If you have house insurance, you should notify your insurer of the damage, if you have not already done so. Hopefully, your insurer will stand in your shoes and having repaired the damage pursuant to its contract with you, (or put you in funds to do so), to decide (or not) to sue the neighbour.

The defendant to your claim would be the owner of the neighbouring dwelling, NOT his contractor. It would be up to the neighbour to join his contractor as co-defendant, should he wish to do so. One or both of them may have insurance. If so the likelihood is that THEIR insures will defend the claim - standing in their shoes.

I you do not have house insurance, then your only realistic option is to repair the damage yourself and sue your neighbour for your expenditure in doing so.

[atticus]

efpom - google "independent contractor in tort"