Compensation for water damage in apartment

kavelot

Good morning!

Last month there was an issue with the roof cover on my building and some water leaked on the hall of my apartment. It damaged the floor, making some of them bend a bit.

The management company is offering to have the floor replaced, but they're only doing it on the 3 areas that got affected; this means thresholds will have to be installed between some of the rooms, and they also told me removing the skirting would make too much damage, so instead they'll keep it and have to install beadings. I think it's not a bad idea, since the gap between the skirting and floor is pretty visible.

Now, since this will probably take 3-4 days of work, and the end result will be floors probably not perfectly matching, thresholds in-between rooms and beadings on some of the rooms of the apartment, I'm considering leaving things as is and asking for financial compensation instead - or to ask for work in the same value to be done in another part of the apartment (the rationale is that this damage impacted the price of the apartment negatively, and work in other area of the apartment could impact it positively).

I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions on how I should proceed or what I could ask.

Thanks!

looksee

If the damage is confined to the hall I think I would opt for asking them to re-floor the hall, accept the thresholds but say that you want the skirting removed and replaced - I really don't like the beading but that's a personal thing.

I really don't see how they could make a three or four day job of it. It should be possible to do it in a day - I just got a largish bedroom done, skirting removed, floor laid, one door trimmed and skirting replaced in one day. Nice job too, handiman on his own.

If you don't mind it, accept the beading, but get the entire floor done, I can just see how they might slip in a last board into an existing floor, but if you accept it and they make a hash of it you will be worse off than now.