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Shakedry ownership seems fraught with peril! If the bloody cat isn't seeking it out to sharpen her claws on, it's getting snagged and ripped on the recently erected Heras fencing separating our property from the building site next door 😭😭
Thing is, that fencing shouldn't exist, we've been here 9 months and the developer has only just realised they need to chop our fence down and erect their bloody scaffolding on our lawn in order to build next door's garage. The fencing is blatantly missing clamps etc. and is drunkenly leaning over our path AND has extra specially pointy wire bits curling out just waiting to snag a passing jacket 🙄
I can't be arsed sending jacket away (again) for (another) repair and waiting a month to get it back so am grumpily demanding developer just replaces it, but deep down even I feel like that's a bit unreasonable.
Reckon I have a case? Would be interested in their reaction if I threatened to send pics if their scaffolding and fencing to HSE, they've effectively turned out back garden into an extension of their site...
Try it, but be prepared to be told the remaining path was wide enough to use without brushing against the fencing...
Rather than just the jacket, complain about length of time fence has been up and the poor state it has been erected and provide damaged jacket as evidence.
Take pictures and ask them to immediately sort the fence and replace your damaged jacket.
You knew the fence was there, so no chance. Similar to crashing your bike into a badly parked car you were aware of.
Yeah... both replies sort of playing to the 'so what if the fence was put up badly, you didn't have to walk in to it' sort of feeling I had deep down anyway...
I might still try and argue that I didn't walk into the fence (I didn't) but got snagged on one of the sharp sticky outy bits which you can't really see. Tenuous but true.
9 months of these clowns running a site next door means I'm not feeling desperately charitable towards them anyway...
Nothing to lose in trying, good luck.
Ask.
Then call the council planning department - sounds like an excuse for a site visit.
Note: HSE will do nothing.
Can you tell them to get off your land, or at least threaten to.
You got the same builders as me?
Been here 9 months and they’ve only just filled a 4 foot-deep hole right outside which was surrounded by shocks Heras fencing…
But I’ve still not managed to ride into it..
Can you tell them to get off your land, or at least threaten to.
We basically denied them access until they agreed to fix the snags on our house (is a new build development), which in fairness they have now started doing, so I think ship has sailed on telling them to get off our land.
it will all boil down to how obnoxious and stubborn I'm prepared to be about it, and since I know myself all too well I'm most likely to fold instantly once they send their friendliest builder over to apologise 🙄
Note: HSE will do nothing.
Thought as much, do you think the builders know that or is it an effective threat? They had an 'incident' on site the other month with someone falling of a scaffolding so I thought they might be extra worried about more reports/visits...
But I’ve still not managed to ride into it..
😂
Lol. Well this thread isn't really interesting enough to merit running updates but the builders have just come back relatively agreeable to (maybe) replacing the jacket, but wondering what it costs 😂
Welcome to the world of high end cycling waterproofs boys, at least it's on sale at Simgasports right now...
Ask for £200/ month for them to rent the area of your garden to put scaffolding on. You can snag a shakedry jacket every time you walk past and still be quids in
You can snag a shakedry jacket every time you walk past and still be quids in
😁
They actually folded really quickly and agreed to new jacket, just feel bad because I think it's the young, friendly site manager who took the bollocking for the state of the fence even though I'm certain it wasn't him who installed it.
Am now thinking I do him a favour and just replace with a hi-viz Paclite jacket at half the price and use that while waiting for Shakedry to get repaired. Seems a more sustainable solution than buying new Shakedry and just binning old one...
Or get them buy you a new one and send other for repair. Then have a spare less worried about damaging?
Great result getting the builder to pay for a new jacket. I’m in the process of buying a new build house. The contract is highly stacked in favour of the developer. There is a clause in my contract which allows them to put up scaffolding on my plot if required and if they damage the turf or anything they don’t need to recompense me.
Buy the new Shakedry and get the old one repaired as well. Then you have one for everyday use and one for Sunday best 🙂
Buy the new Shakedry and get the old one repaired as well. Then you have one for everyday use and one for
the cat 😀
The contract is highly stacked in favour of the developer. There is a clause in my contract which allows them to put up scaffolding on my plot if required and if they damage the turf or anything they don’t need to recompense me.
Huh, I was worried ours might have something similar but it never came up in 'negotiations'. That said, we haven't actually managed to extract anything extra out of them for the hassle anyway, just getting them to fix stuff they should have fixed anyway! Probably why they were so amenable to replacing the jacket.
the cat
😂
Totally unexceptionable to have unsafe fencing protruding into your property/public space. That's why landowners put the barbwire on their side.
Remind the builder that if reported to the HSE, they will charge £153 per hour, this includes the builder even talking to them on the phone.
https://www.hse.gov.uk/fee-for-intervention/index.htm
A replacement jacket and the safe removal of the offending fence would be cheaper for them.
Also charge them rent/inconvenience compensation for access to your land for building the neighbours garage. As well as getting it in writing that they will repair any damage caused.
Too late, it would seem that you already have a new jacket.
You could make yourself a short sleeve version out of the old one, like a Gabba 🤔
Better to claim off them for a jacket and they fix the spikey heras than it catch your kids in the eye or face sometime and them have to deal with a claim for that from your insurer and HSE!
if the scaff needs to go on your property how on earth is the garage not to close to the boundary?
Go and harass the site manager, they'll just replace it to get you off their back