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What do your insurers say?
What do the upstairs neighbors say?
Having pondered this a bit I am inclined to agree with @TW and @hoefla that upstairs should pay, but I did some googling (sound the armchair "expert" klaxon) and read that the neighbor would need to be proven negligent to be responsible.Worth checking what your insurance documents say.
Hope it gets sorted one way or the other.
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I haven't contacted my insurers. I've only contacted the flat management fuckers.
It's not the neighbour, it's shared infra so the management fuckers are paying.
What I'm talking about is how much of this fuckup can I expect to be paid for? ie. my desk is now outside drying out. The bookcase has gone black from damp. The bath has been ripped apart to find the leak, etc. None of this shit would've happened if UK idiots ran drain pipes outside like a sensible country, but since they ran them inside I feel they should pay for everything, including new carpet and whatever it takes to sort that. But I reckon they, like most liable cunts, will try and get out of as much as possible so I want to know what they're definitely liable for.
hippy
It's not my pipes that leaked though so I'm not paying for the damage. But I'm wondering what my costs might extend to. My desk has been damaged. Carpet, the walls, the bath front, it stinks and I'm running a bunch of stuff to sort it all out. Show me the money.