Shared Roof Repairs Scotland

Don t know where to start with your common repair.

Shared roof repairs scotland.

Council s have limited resources to help. There may be delays in providing information to customers for solicitors enquiries for live statutory notice repairs information property searches and serving of statutory notice. The tenement management scheme. This site uses cookies.

It sets up a decision making structure that should make it easier to carry out repairs. What the act can do for you the act aims to ensure that the communal parts of buildings are kept in good repair. Making decisions about common repairs. Scotland act 2004 the law affects every owner home business or shop in a building which is divided into two or more flats on different floors.

Tenements scotland act 2004 schedule 1 rule 1 2. Decisions about common repairs are made by all or a majority of the owners concerned and costs are shared between all the owners. There is a lot you can do yourself and many owners have successfully taken legal action against non paying owners. Give a share of costs that adds up to 100.

Our downstairs neighbour seems to be stalling over agreeing to commencing work on roof repairs i have done a fair amount of work in sourcing quotes and even contacting my insurance company who sent out a surveyor and though they wouldn t cover it the survey confirmed that the repairs are required as a matter of urgency. You must use proper procedures to arrange common repairs or your co owners may be able to wriggle out of paying. Borders country lets has its own in house legal team at hastings and their solicitors contacted the other property owners and reached an agreement on instructing a roofer to carry out the repairs. Welcome to shelter scotland.

Call our shared repairs. This fills in the gaps in title deeds and helps make flat owners responsibilities more clear. If this is the case you and the other owners can revert to the tenement management scheme found at schedule 1 of the tenement scotland act 2004. Don t give up if other owners won t pay the repair costs will just escalate and all your property values may be affected.

Remember any area that s really important to the building as a whole such as the roof may be classed as scheme property which means the other owners will have a say in how the repairs are done and you ll be able to recover a share of the costs from them. They also secured shared contributions from the other flat owners. The repairs will be so expensive they won t be worth doing.