Good evening,
I'll try to not drop feed. I currently have a drainage disrepair issue against my landlord that is being handled by a solicitor. Following a pre-action sent by said solicitt, The LL surveyor inspected my property and he said all pipe work should be renewed, and reworked as my sink had been progressively been blocking over the years to the point I had the plumbers out on a weekly basis. The schedule of works was agreed as per the surveyors report and work went underway.
The LL decided to use a contractor that thought it best without consultation to only do half the work, so he did not rework and reset the pipes (it's at an angle that doesn't make it run well) also another pipe should be going into the main stack pipe but contractor has other ideas and decided to leave it going into the toilet vent which actually goes against building regulations.
Then LL surveyor came back on one of his site visits and told me that the contractor hadn't carried out all the works as agreed and he would call him back however he clearly had a change of heart and decided the next day to remove the scaffolding, not to bother and just keep it changed at one pipe going into the toilet vent that is agsint building regulations.
I mentioned (numerous times) to my solicitor that they had not carried out what we agreed and whilst they have changed the one pipe and so far my sink is running ok it's not actually dealt with the root of the issue and more likely I will have to deal with this pipe getting blocked again in the future.
The solicitor basically said the LL does not have to carry out the legally agreed works, it does not have to be perfect but they just need to remedy it?!? I get they just need to remedy it but the remedy was by carrying out what we all agreed and not a half way sort of job.
She even had the cheek to say if I encounter problems in the future I will have to make another disrepair claim which has me baffled as I don't see why I'm instructing them to say "its ok if they don't do all the works now, but if the half they do now causes problems later down the road, instruct another solicitor and battle it out again at that point"
I'm thinking of just taking the case off and going small claims myself and then putting a formal complaint against the solicitor as I also paid for an independent expert that advised the works that was supposed to be carried out had not all been carried out, but the solicitor says "as long as your sink isn't blocking now at this precise moment then it's been sorted"
Any advice please as I'm losing my patience with this solicitor and I'm at a loss as to why they took on the case to then go against the agreed instructions on the schedule of works