This time through no chocie of our own. Last week on Monday and Tuesday the housng association fitted a new heating system. As soon as they finished on the Tuesday we left for Newport as we had to attend a relatives funeral the next morning. After visiting relatives in the area we returned home to disaster.
It seems that a weld on a copper pipe had not been done properly and water had been spraying out ever since the workmen switched the water back on Tuesday. The ceiling in the bedroom had collapsed and flooded the bed and all the bedroom furniture. It then flooded the small bedroom, the passageway and the lounge. All the carpets are a write off. the dry walls are sodden, the brickwall and plaster is still sodden as of yesterday although two huge dehumidifiers are working 24/7 plus heating going at 24/7. Nearly £5000 damage as most of the stuff was less than two years old.
We have moved onto a Camping and Caravan site and although the female wardens are very friendly and helpful the males certainly need lessons in customer management as they are extremely rude and arrogant. On two different occasions yesterdays we had them shouting at us through no real fault of our own. This was very embrassing as there were a number of people in the vicinity and with all the stress, the wife broke down.
I admit that I then lost my rag with them the second time around and told them that we were cancelling our membership and wanted a refund as we would be leaving the site immediately and would be giving the club our reasons for leaving. Suddenly their whole attitude changed and they said we did not have to move pitches etc. There was no reason for them to so obnoxious and even less reason for them to start shouting at us even if by some chance we were at fault. A quiet word in our ear would have sufficed.
Problem, is that it looks like we are going to be stuck on caravan sites for several weeks. Thank goodness the CC site next door opens on the 23rd March.
It seems that a weld on a copper pipe had not been done properly and water had been spraying out ever since the workmen switched the water back on Tuesday. The ceiling in the bedroom had collapsed and flooded the bed and all the bedroom furniture. It then flooded the small bedroom, the passageway and the lounge. All the carpets are a write off. the dry walls are sodden, the brickwall and plaster is still sodden as of yesterday although two huge dehumidifiers are working 24/7 plus heating going at 24/7. Nearly £5000 damage as most of the stuff was less than two years old.
We have moved onto a Camping and Caravan site and although the female wardens are very friendly and helpful the males certainly need lessons in customer management as they are extremely rude and arrogant. On two different occasions yesterdays we had them shouting at us through no real fault of our own. This was very embrassing as there were a number of people in the vicinity and with all the stress, the wife broke down.
I admit that I then lost my rag with them the second time around and told them that we were cancelling our membership and wanted a refund as we would be leaving the site immediately and would be giving the club our reasons for leaving. Suddenly their whole attitude changed and they said we did not have to move pitches etc. There was no reason for them to so obnoxious and even less reason for them to start shouting at us even if by some chance we were at fault. A quiet word in our ear would have sufficed.
Problem, is that it looks like we are going to be stuck on caravan sites for several weeks. Thank goodness the CC site next door opens on the 23rd March.
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