We bought a house about a year ago, a builder came into it and redid the whole house taking every wall back to bare brick, replastering and decorating among other things. The cost of the whole job was close to £30,000. This house was my husband's Nan's house and we were aware of damp and asked the builder to investigate.
A few weeks after the job was finished, we noticed flaking of the paint round our chimney breast. We called him back and he said that it was sediment settling in the plaster, came back another time after that and then got a bit dismissive....cut a long story short, we now having rising damp on every wall on our ground floor. We have had two specialists quoting appx £3000 to fix, not to mention the upheaval of having plaster drilled off a meter high round my ground floor.
Is this something a builder should have seen? Have I got any legal rights to ask the builder to rectify the situation at his cost or is it just something that's unfortunate luck?