Well we should have been moving out of the house in the next 6-8 weeks to have it underpinned but everything is all up in the air now & I am absolutely fuming hence I haven't been on my blog for the last week or so.
Just needed to take a total timeout to get my head around everything. I think I have said on here before that we moved into this house in September 2002 so almost 5 years ago & in the Summer of the following year we noticed big cracks appearing in the house so contacted our insurace company. Anyway after months & months of monitoring & investigation it was decided that the cause was definitely subsidence due to the big oak tree that we have in our front garden. Next door are also suffering due to our tree plus an oak tree in their other neighbours garden. So back in May 2005 we applied for the tree to be removed & the council just refused to make a decision. This went on & on for ages with legal action being threatened but still no decision was made.
Last December we were told that our insurance company were going to go ahead & underpin without the tree being removed but next doors insurance company were still being funny about it all.
Back in June we finally had the contractors in to quote on the work that needed doing & then sat back waiting for the insurance company to decide which contractor to go with. We were told that we were looking at the a moving out date of sometime in late September/early October. Anyway last Friday Ian called me at work to say everything was sorted, the approved contractors wanted to start work in approx 8 weeks & that we needed to start looking for somewhere to rent.
I was all set to head up to the estate agents in my lunch break but half an hour later Ian rang me to say that the council had finally after nearly 2 1/2 years decided to grant permission for the removal of the oak tree in our front garden. 2 1/2 years. Argh!!!!!!!! There are loads of other ins & outs which are really frustrating but now we don't have a clue what is happening. Noone seems to have any answers for us. 1 minute we are being told that we won't be underpinned & that we will just have the house repaired & that for this we can stay in the house. The whole of the ground floor needs relevelling for Fs sake. And then someone else is telling us that we will probably still be underpinned with the start date being 6-8 weeks. So we are living in total limbo not knowing whether we should pack the house & fins somewhere else to live or whether we need to wait another year for the tree to be removed & then see what happens to the ground.
This has been going on for the last 4 years & quite frankly I have now had enough.
Sorry for the rant but it feels so much better getting that all off my chest.
Normal blog service will be resumed soon.
Oh, for crying out loud! After all that time?
No wonder you're fed up and fuming!
{{{{{HUGS}}}}
ps think there must be summat in the air at the minute for things not going to plan :(
Posted by: Diane | August 26, 2007 at 07:36 PM