The delights of a "period" property - ie old and needs stuff doing all the time.
Water leak through bedroom ceiling in all the rain over Christmas. Emergency fix the next day, "temporary sort out", he said, cost me a couple of hundred. I asked for a quote for proper repair - there is no lead flashing around the chimneys, and the mortar, I'm told, has/had cracking. This is a man recommended by someone I do trust.
Quote comes in for lead flashing, two chimneys, which involves scaffolding - £3500.
Ow.
Next quote, nice man, but unknown company other than they advertise locally, quote for lead flashing, involves scaffolding - £3500.
I can't keep getting quotes forever, but that's a lot of dosh to me! Neither will use a ladder ("health and safety mate"). I don't even know if that's fair enough or unreasonable, and that's half the cost alone.
A quick internet search yields figures less than that, but not round here, and not very recently. Anyone got any experience of this?
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