Recently or next door neighbours were needing repairs to their leaking roof and gable end . They are council tenants so the council arranged the repair. Their house butts up against our garden and so the scaffolding company put scaffolding up in our garden. Without our permission actually and necessitating some upheaval, but we facilitated this to support our neighbours .
The roofing company are different from scaffolding company, but both contracted by the council. They worked on the scaffolding over our garden for two weeks. they were very noisy, radio blaring and loud sweary conversations all day. Butt again we put up with this to support our neighbours.
Part way in I noticed they had scattered an area of garden beneath the scaffolding with grey gravel. It covers my lawn, flower beds and herb garden. In some places it’s 10 com thick . It covers an area about 10m wide by 5 m .
I contacted the roofers immediately to ask to to clean up, asking that they knock on my door and we look at it together and agree how to remove. I then noticed they’d been in my garden without me and shovelled some of the deepest areas up, taking away turf and leaving bare soil where lawm had been.
by this time they’d finished the roofing and moved on. And told me they would clean the rest up when the scaffolding was removed.
it’s now been a month since the scaffolding has been removed and there’s been a series of no shows and promises, but mainly just ghosting. The garden is still a mess , really damaged.
aibu to expect them to fix the damage?
how can I make them do this?