How very fortunate you are, a wonderful story. I know that I too would rely on insurance and probably a long wait.
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What a wonderful human being he is. Proves there are still genuinely caring people still in this world.
Although, if he had fallen you would have been liable.
It is one of the reasons I have emergency cover in my home insurance
What a wonderful human being he is. Proves there are still genuinely caring people still in this world.
A lovely story to warm the heart AuntieE. You have a diamond of a neighbour.
I've enjoyed reading all the good neighbour stories.
My neighbours are great. I shall miss them dreadfully when I move in a few months time.
My lovely neighbours are always there for me. I couldn't breathe one day and my partner, who is showing signs of dementia didnt know what to do. I wrote him a note as I couldn't speak and said "Fetch A (neighbour)" She came held my hand and ordered an ambulance. And they are always doing things for me. Once I was going to catch a train and the taxi didn't turn up, and the husband took me to the station. Good people
Roofer charged £400 to cement in four ridge tiles. I thought that was steep.
You have a cracking neighbour by the sounds of it.
We had lovely neighbours in our last house and the same in this one. OH mows their lawn and they water our garden if we're away. We borrow things too from each other, like a cup of milk, an egg, etc when shops are closed on a Sunday evening.
We don't live in each other's houses but are there for each other if needed. It's great to support each other.
I live on a new estate- neighbours barely pass the time of day whilst dog walking. I'm gald to hear that good neighbours do exist though and that the leaky roof was mended.
I'm an elderly widow. New neighbours arrived a few months ago. youngish man, newish partner and her daughter about 14. In the spring, my hedges need cutting. Man asks if I have a hedge trimmer and offers to cut hedges, so I tell him that DH had one, but it's too heavy for me. Battery dead of course so I got a new one and the machine works. So I say to man, please have the machine but I'd be super-grateful if you'd do my hedges, I'll pick up the trimmings. He's done them twice now, really kind and I did take them a couple of bottles. Good neighbours are like gold.
what a lovely neighbour. when you are alone its situations like this that throw you all out. makes you panic and wonder what on earth to do thank goodness you had a knight in shining armour so to speak.
Yes I know work to H & S rule probably supports the idea of scaffolding, but commonsense when it's a straightforward job (which OP's good samaritan seems to have done without exterior access? ) does say that putting up, transporting, taking down heavy scaffolding is a much bigger job & probably incurs more risks of various kinds, than just cementing 2 tiles back on.
clicked before I finished....and good neighbours are worth their weight in gold
Valdavi,
that reminds me of 2 or 3 years ago a couple of tiles came loose and slid down the roof, my OH asked a roofer if he would put them back on, next day he came to the house and told us he would need to take about 3 rows of tiles off to get these couple of tiles back on....at a cost of £300.. we told him not to bother, I contacted another roofer...he came and put them back on , he didn't charge a penny, there are conmen and there are genuine people who will help ,especially pensioners....and good neighbo
There is Health and Safety legislation that requires scaffolding above certain height. The builder probably had no choice about using scaffolding.
That's really heartening to hear.
My neighbour lost 2 tiles off the roof this spring, she lives alone, the tiler came & had a look a week later, organised scaffolding for 3 weeks later, eventually replaced the 2 tiles over a month after they came loose. Such a long time to live with water getting in. & did they really need scaffolding for a couple of tiles? It's not a very tall house or otherwise tricky to access.
Yes, here in Scotland we have some very kind and helpful neighbours/friends too. In the last storm, they were instrumental in helping us fix all the damage. Thank goodness for kindness.
What a fantastic neighbour AuntieE. There are still some very kind people despite what we hear on the news every day.
I have good neighbours who helped me recently.
Last week the rain came down like stair-rods all week. Bad enough, you would think, but it got worse.
In the passage between the garage and my wash-kitchen, lo and behold! A large pool of water appeared. It had not, as I originally thought, come in under the outer door, but had come in through the roof, run down the loft gable and continued on its merry way down to the concrete floor. (Thank heaven, it is a concrete floor.)
Problems abounded.
1) the electric cables to the garage run through that loft and down the wall that was wet!
2) The trap-door to that loft is the old-fashioned kind that you push upwards and thrust to the side.
3) That trap-door is about 4 metres above the floor and I hate standing on ladders and will not do so when I am alone in the house (which I always am, now)
4) Anyhow I have not the strength to lift that trap-door, even if I dared stand on a ladder and use both hands to attempt to move the trap-door, while clinging like a monkey with my feet.
You get the picture, don't you?
Solution: one of my neighbours - a good kind soul of the type you seldom meet these days, so I thought I would gladden your hearts by describing him.
Brought up in the depth of the impoverished Italian countryside, he has worked in Germany for years and now lives next door to me in Denmark.
We communicate in a weird mixture of German and Danish and when that doesn't work fall back on Italian and Spanish (my Spanish being better than my Italian).
The good man gave up most of his Friday afternoon to working out how to safely open that trap-door, that threatened to fall back down onto his head, and secure it, while standing on the third-top rung of a long ladder.
That done, he finally got into the loft and found out where the water was coming in, and that there was a tile missing from the roof,
So he came back down, took another ladder, found the missing tile, whole and hearty in the gutter, mixed cement and put back the tile and did a fair amount of pointing while he was at it. (Might as well use up the cement).
Tnen he cleaned the gutters and on Saturday went shopping for foam to insulate the cracks from the inside. Saturday night it poured, but not a drop of water came in!
Hope this cheers up your day, as it certainly did mine (and saved me a mint of money as he would only accept a very moderate fee for his time - plus a jar of freshly home-pickled beetroot and a bottle of home-made apple juice!
And I have a shrewd suspicion what a builder would have wanted for doing the repair. And I most assuredly would not have got a builder to come at quarter to five on a Friday afternoon!
It is nice to know there are still good, kind people in this world, isn't it?
Anyone else with good neighbours? I hope so.
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