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Worried About My New Car
I’ve had my new car for 7 weeks. I have it parked on my driveway when not in use. As we live in a terraced property, our leasehold neighbours are having exterior wall insulation. They said the works were going to go ahead sometime in the future and they promised they’d let us know when the works would start (they said probably August), but August came and went and they never got back so we thought they’d put the works off. We told them we needed a newer car and would happily wait until their works were done as we didn’t want a new car to get damaged/dusty/dirty.
Friday night just gone, they told us they’re now having the works done and ‘eventually have a date to start’. Scaffolding was put up today and is over our entrance door. What I’m more worried about is my new car being damaged. I don’t want to park it on the road for obvious reasons, but I’m worried now it’s going to get wrecked. What are my rights in this? The scaffolding guys seem OK (who've gone now), but one of them was swinging one of the poles around. Our neighbours didn’t keep us informed either about a start date? And now the drilling has started.
I just wondered if anyone has any input please,particularly my car?
TIA.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't think you can tell your neighbours to cease work just because you have a new car that may get dirty!
If it gets damaged (and you can prove) who damaged it then you can take it further.
They notified you that they were having work done, do you own their leasehold, if not I don't see the difference that makes?
Many years ago (before I retired) I suffered an example of builder "damage" to my car. My employer had a flat roof re-covered and as a result dirt covered all the cars in the employee's car park (about 20 affected). The Employer paid for all the cars to go through a car wash. Local car wash did very good business that day.
Thank you guys so far, much appreciated. I did ask our neighbours if they thought we should move our car, but he said he didn't think so - so there it's stayed. I've just come in from work and a pole propping up the scaffolding is about 1m away from the car, plus the car has browny dust on it already (it's brilliant white in colour btw). Shall I just let it go or what should I do?