My boyfriend has sent me a snappy text. He lives with his mother due to finances and he is her carer. She stays in bed as she has depression as a result of situations caused by other people.
They had a big flood the other day come from the bathroom through the kitchen ceiling. I was there and we called an emergency plumber out. I spoke to some people since and one said they should have called the insurers then someone else said it might be cheaper to not go through the insurance.
I told my partner but his mother gets angry when she has to ring companies up. He has told me to leave him alone as his mother is annoyed with him and said she doesn’t know if she has house insurance.
I said if you have no house insurance if there is a fire nothing would be covered and I left it then as otherwise he will see me as interfering. He did reply and said if it was him he would get on it straight away. He said he will speak to her later when she is fully awake, he has an annoying habit of waking her up to chat when she is asleep.
I am concerned the ceiling is bowing cos of the water and the kitchen plug socket got water on. I usually wash up where the bowing ceiling is and don’t want that collapsing on my head. My boyfriend got an electric shock off the plug socket after the leak as he didn’t know the electrics had got wet there and we went to A&E and still have some aches, tingling and headaches but the doctors checked him out. I switched off as the fuse board at night the sockets that had water on to avoid sparks in the night. An electrician is coming out in a few days.
The have other lights and plug sockets that haven’t worked for years and use extension leads in some rooms with lamps. His mother tripped over the extension lead the other day and fell on the floor.
It is not my business but I am really concerned for them on a health and safety point of view. I stop over at his as I am not allowed to have guests at my shared living but I feel my safety is at risk.