Council house/compensation

[Mummy289]

Hello,
Please don’t judge 🤣, live in a council house but both work and pay our rent…

We have 4 children, 3 with autism/ld/adhd.

Our concrete living room floor has perished. We have not had all the tests yet, but it’s either going to mean a concrete floor laid or the floor being re screened.
We are going to need to be out the house for a week, the council also want us to move all our furniture up stairs (hubby has a bad back and on reg meds and I’m not very strong 🤣). It’s a massive sofa too.
They won’t pay for storage.
They did suggest we stay, although we can’t get in our kitchen as we go through the lounge and my kids with asd would struggle to understand this.
The kitchen is tiny and I have a 2 year old who I can’t leave up stairs while I cook and walk around the front.
Is it to much to expect them to pay some sort of money for us to find some where to stay? I’m assuming for us would need to be a caravan site with WiFi (hubby works from home). Kids can’t cope in a hotel and need room. Esp as it’s a whole week. Would be close to there Sen school, as they can’t have time off.
Am I being unreasonable to not pay my self? It’s going to be winter when it’s done so it’s not a free holiday. But the kids are so fussy with food I would still need to cook, and do pack lunches etc.

Sorry guys. No the French drain didn’t work. That was June time done. Worked out August it didn’t work since then been waiting for a builder and surveyor to do more tests (camera underneath) have a massive bulge in the floor and worried it’s a water pipe. The ground outside is really wet too.
We have been waiting nearly 2 months for this… so we are looking at October November time and a gazebo won’t stay up here that time of year as rural. It def needs a new damp course but they still don’t know why the ground is soooo wet.

@Mummy289 The ground is wet because water is collecting under the house. A drain could be broken or it’s a water leak. Honestly; this isn’t a bit of screed gone wrong. They need to get a camera into the drains anx pipes to locate where there is damage and a leak. The French drain was for surface water but the damp soil is saturated under the house, it’s expanding and pushing the floor up. The next fault will be cracks due to heave. This isn’t a quick fix. They need to get someone to look at this who understands about water saturation and house structures. Is this a LA or housing association?

It’s la, the man we had should know all about this. I was promised dates today for inspection works but didn’t get any 😭.

We have a massive nor straight line that runs through the floor and the last 3 years I have been telling them it’s higher (you can see it’s been filed) to me it looks like a crack that they tried to fill in (before we moved in 10 years ago).
the cracks where the slugs come in run from this along the outside wall.
The corner of the house same side wall has dry cracking his saying it where they used different concretes and it’s fine just needs covering?
The out side bricks have Efflorescence on them and have done since we moved in, actually we had weeds growing from the brick work 🤦🏼‍♀️.
There are no drains that side.
The drains are all in the front and dry.
The back of the house has always been wet but the house backs in to a field so assumed it was that.
However we have planted it up at the back and the back gets very dry.
The family who loved her before lived her since it was built (1960) and def did their own thing.
Had a fencing company re do our fence and they found a pipe not near but at the back with running water… didn’t follow it though.
We don’t have a water leak as our water is quite cheap.
However is there was that was already under I don’t know .
They don’t seem to know.
These have spent 6 months, inspecting and leaving but doing no official tests.
it took 6 months to get someone out.
Just fed up tbh. However it sounds like I shouldn’t be 😭.
Really and truly there are lots of theories and hey are hoping for the cheapest thing to be wrong. However we don’t know jack.

I can't begin to imagine the stress your under , would getting your local MP maybe shake things up a bit or perhaps be rehoused local to the area you're in .
I know what council can be like when dealing with a repair that takes investigation but nothing on the scale of what you're dealing with.hope you get a favourable outcome.

Thanks for all your advice. Well it happened last week we stayed, it was awful and hard work. It’s rained other the Weekend and the water has poured in, so much worse than before the floor was done. Suppose to have new carpet this week. Floor is now soaking wet.
😭