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Damage to property

  • 16-06-2011 6:22pm
    #1
    Nolanger
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    A few months ago I returned home one night and almost immediately heard two loud bangs. The whole apartment shook. It sounded like the guy below me had whacked his wall with a sledgehammer. He had been making noise like this on and off for months but never this bad. Then a few weeks ago I moved a sofa and there's a lovely crack running up the wall from the floor and branching out in opposite directions. What's the law on this? Can I sue the guy for damage to my wall? Or would this be impossible to prove? What should the management company do?


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  • #2
    slimjimmc
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    You need to establish what caused the crack, and that might require a building engineer to check it out. At the moment you're only surmising the guy below took a whack at the wall. What you're looking at may simply be a minor settlement crack, they're very common and unless you frequently check the wall behind the sofa it could have been there unnoticed for some time.


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