hi, this may be a little long but..i bought the house 3 years ago and its just a nightmare! so far..installing the new kitchen we found the floor was NAILED into the GAS pipe..so we replaced it with the same fittings, made sure there was no leakage and put it under a concrete floor, then we found LIVE wires rolled up into the damp beams of the ceilings, all well good..fixed that
Then the water tank up in the attic burst and we had to go thru a whole process of claiming for water damage on the house...and we have been fixing it up since..but the last few months the heating hasn't been working properly and then not at all.
So we called bord gais and they just sent a guy out to check it..he has just had a look around our house and said..that the way the place is set up is a total mess...which we knew...the thermostat and emersion and heat sensors or something were all rolled up in a ball by the hot water tank, behind the gas fire the boiler wasnt closed off at all and switches were literaly hanging off live wires, god only knows what else its like where we can't see, so the gas has been shut off for now for safety reasons...which is totaly understandable..
My questions is..is there anything we can do? i had an engineer have a look at the house before we bought it (he was recommended by the estate agent)and the only thing he said was we need to replace the insulation in the attic and the owner of the house had told me the heating had been serviced the christmas before we bought the house..i really can't afford this right now..people have suggested sueing the engineer as this should have been picked up by him..i'm at a loss what to do..should i sue..is there anything else i could do? does anybody have any ideas..oh and sorry if i put this under the wrong thread list