Blackbanana
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We paid engineer 11k for design, tendering (to his builder panel) supervision, certificates of compliance. However, though there were 10 visits to the property, and though he describes himself as the administrator of the builder's contract in several emails, and decisions were not to be made without his input, he denies he was supervising the project, and it was just periodic visits - house renovation with kitchen extension and attic conversation.
We are now left with 80k bills for mistakes on planning which have devalued our house - said we didn't need planning when we did - should have come under BCAR but didn't, remedial work costs 80k for structural issues.
We are likely to have difficulty selling our house in the future as we didn't come under BCAR, because of engineer's mistake, who is also a planning consultant, so we don't have all the BCAR certification we need, just a new global cert for the house from new engineer. Builder has gone to ground and left the country. What is the engineer's liability here - is it worth pursuing?
We are now left with 80k bills for mistakes on planning which have devalued our house - said we didn't need planning when we did - should have come under BCAR but didn't, remedial work costs 80k for structural issues.
We are likely to have difficulty selling our house in the future as we didn't come under BCAR, because of engineer's mistake, who is also a planning consultant, so we don't have all the BCAR certification we need, just a new global cert for the house from new engineer. Builder has gone to ground and left the country. What is the engineer's liability here - is it worth pursuing?