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But... to the downstairs leaseholder, they're broke and £1k is a figure that scares them and they wish to have the cheapest option no matter what. So have no appetite to go from £1-3k to £8-14k.
Guess if they're that broke you could always offer to pay a larger share yourself for peace of mind that your house isn't falling to bits
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What to do when the roof probably needs replacing and there is a freeholder and 2 leaseholders.
I'm the leaseholder of the top floor, the roof is leaking in a way that suggests multiple badly done DIY patches (from the inside!) are no longer holding up. Initial assessments from roofers (yet to receive the quotes) suggest scaffolding as large areas need re-tiling.
To me: Once we're at the point of scaffolding we may as well re-tile the whole roof. The roof is old, many tiles are not straight or are chipped and cracked, the felt inside has long gone. There's no record of when this was last done but visually from the street it's the oldest of all houses around.
But... to the downstairs leaseholder, they're broke and £1k is a figure that scares them and they wish to have the cheapest option no matter what. So have no appetite to go from £1-3k to £8-14k.
Is this something I can force? It's a shitty thing to do but the thought of another patch up job (even a decent one) doesn't feel like the wisest thing.
For an idea of the state of the roof right now: Several tiles missing, ability to put arm through the holes, rain comes through into large buckets, in various places someone in the past nail-gunned insulation to under the tiles to hide the degree of damage and to wick the moisture over a larger area so that it reduced impact - it was the heavy rain this weekend that finally overcame that solution and has caused ceiling damage.