Its been a month now sinse the decorators finished doing up the house and i am honestly tongue tied when it comes to describing what they have done but, thankfully i have the fruits of their idiotic labours to remind me.
The catalogue of farcical bodge ups is massive and they even left the back of the houses scaffolding behind, what kind of cowboy numbskulls go away and leave a row of houses still scaffolded up? Not just a few poles and a wooden beam or two but the whole row of houses. Stunning.
I told the trust that someone tried to break into my house through one of the windows via the scaffold and they replied by sending me a letter asking me to leave the windows open for painting during the day which would not be so bad except they didnt actually do the windows untill weeks after the letter was sent potentially leaving my flat open wide to burglers for a month.
Once they had finished the windows they sent me another letter, this time asking me to leave my front door unlocked so that it too could be painted. again it was weeks after the letter before they painted it, weeks in which they regularly left the main house door wide open when they finished of an evening, i was expected to leave my home unlocked and open for a period of weeks so they could turn up at random to paint it, i waited for ten working days and no one even knocked at my door so i gave up and came back one day to see the decorators had been and they hadpainted it but left a patch unpainted round my lock easily big enough for a shaving brush to do it.
The hallway... the hallway. they painted it a light powdery lillac. Ive talked with the Trust more than once about the the problems keeping the narrow hallway walls clean because of bicycles, and they painted it light lillac, using a paint that comes off like chalk if wiped.
As for the hall's lighting, (agonised pause) they ripped out the lighting system, a perfectly fine working lighting system that was turned on when needed, now we have atotally rubbish automatic lighting system that comes on 24 hours a day whenever you enter the hall yet at night instead of just pressing the button when leaving my flat i have to now stand in the dark and dance about so the motion sensor can notice me and turn the lights on, its the same entering the house, in the time it takes the sensor to notice me i can walk the length of the hall and be at the stairs. I don't want a light system that makes me dance disco just to be turned on, nor do i want to have to pay to waste electricity burning lights during the day, but i have no choice, as i am reminded when i leave the house and see the old lighting still sitting in the basement where the rubbish is supposed to go (this is the same housing trust that sent out new 'eco-bulbs' to save electricity), oh, the council has stopped taking our rubbish and i have to carry it to portobello road to dump it.
Speaking of rubbish, the decorators left loads of it in the front basement, the council don't take builders rubble, cabling etc and the great British public have now taken to throwing their crap in with it when passing.
One of the last things the decorators did before leaving to make other peoples lives a misery was fixing some spikes to everyones window sills that are supposed to deter birds, two days after the decorators left i was standing outside the house talking with a neighbour when one of the bird spikes came tumbling down to our feet, they had been fixed to the sills with some kind of completly unsuitable rubber solution that has no known adhesive qualities what so ever, the spikes blew away in the first breeze.
Now the decorators are gone i yet i still can't leave my back windows open when i go out, i cant leave my rubbish in its place and i have to do a hip hop version of ST Vitas' dance just to put my keys in the lock of an evening.
Stunning incompetence by anyones standards.
And they have put my rent up.
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