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So I was back at the house that cowboys built today (the one I moaned about before Christmas). Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse........ It leapfrogged past bad to catastrophic.
I was there today to install some fibre cement cladding on a small dormer. Started putting my battens on the dormer to fix the cladding to, got halfway through and realised that whoever built the fucking thing had only sheathed approximately 1/2 the structure with osb.
At this point I decided to have a closer look at the rest of it. Ridge tiles not bedded on or pointed, the only thing holding them on the roof is their own weight. The pointing on the gable end verges between the undertiles and the slates has been knocked up with too little sand so it has cracked and shrunk and is now falling out. There are other problems further down the roof including missing tiles and very poorly dressed lead flashing. The worst part about all of this? Building control have already signed it off. Because of this the client who is already in denial about how bad things are says he just wants to leave it alone. I.fucking.despair.