New Build Leaking roof

chemwiz

Hi all,

Looking for some advice here. Our new-build house developed a roof leak spreading down the front wall during the "beast from the east".
We contacted the builder who are still on site and they mentioned that they will send someone around to assess. That was 1 week ago still nobody around after countless emails and phone calls. Today with just regular Irish wet weather we noticed a fresh leak in a similar location and can hear dripping water through the wall.

Just wondering from a legal point of view where do we go with this, I assume the builders are obliged to fix as faulty goods like any other product you purchase?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gumbo

chemwiz wrote: »

Hi all,

Looking for some advice here. Our new-build house developed a roof leak spreading down the front wall during the "beast from the east".
We contacted the builder who are still on site and they mentioned that they will send someone around to assess. That was 1 week ago still nobody around after countless emails and phone calls. Today with just regular Irish wet weather we noticed a fresh leak in a similar location and can hear dripping water through the wall.

Just wondering from a legal point of view where do we go with this, I assume the builders are obliged to fix as faulty goods like any other product you purchase?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Call your solicitor first thing in the morning and ask if a letter directly to the builder will help. Other than that, you need to hound the builder, every day until he comes.

There is a defects liability period, but you must be careful that the leak didn’t come about from damage that was caused by the actual storm itself.

chemwiz

kceire wrote: »

Call your solicitor first thing in the morning and ask if a letter directly to the builder will help. Other than that, you need to hound the builder, every day until he comes.

There is a defects liability period, but you must be careful that the leak didn’t come about from damage that was caused by the actual storm itself.

Thanks for reply kceire. Builder is still not being helpful, the leak in now occurring with combination heavy rain and wind coming for a certain direction. My hunch is vents on roof are not fit for purpose as I notice houses since built on the estate have mushroom shaped vents rather that our just being an open space allowing rain in as in our case. Builder stated that no vents will be changed and doesn't believe me that the leak in occurring during rain. Even though we had them come in and inspect the dampness the following day after the leak due to rain 3 weeks ago, they are still insisting the dampness is from the snow back in March.

Not sure where to go from here as they are not moving on this at all.

Solicitor stated homebond although this requires an excess..

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

mickdw

You firstly need to get an Engineers Report confirming the defect. Take to solicitor and go from there.

The other possible route would be to have a trusted roofer assess the issue and if its minor, consider just getting it done.