As luck would have it I’m selling my Golf GTi, 2002/52 reg, still runs brilliantly, fully serviced by local VW experts in Sydenham, kept it in tip-top running condition, only changing because I have a newborn and have had to upgrade to something bigger to fit our stupidly oversized pram in, should do you through until your Tesla arrives. Let me know if interested 
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Bloody hell, Chris, the lengths you’ll go to to generate content for the forum 
Seriously, bad luck. There was an accident at a loft conversion on Cranston road a few weeks back - looked like a scaffolding thing. Air ambulance was called…
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how do you plan to charge the model 3? the nearest charging point is sainsburys car park and no superchargers this side of the river?
its normally the scaffolding company that puts up the scaffolding rather than the loft company therefore its better to be aware of the scaffolding company in this instance
Yes it is but I would expect the scaffolding company to be a supplier to the loft company - they chose them. Caveat emptor. Hope the loft company are up to date with their PI.
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is the root cause the loft company or the scaffolding company?
Who knows? But the customer should only have to deal with the loft company IMHO. Regardless, a bit crap for @anon5422159, shame this has happened to his car.
agree, customer should only deal with loft company; just think they do not need to be named in this thread.
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“My other car is a scaffolding lorry.”
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The loft company employs the scaffolding company, therefore they are responsible for their workmanship and adherence to health and safety. This is a serious situation, someone could easily have been killed and I for one would like to know which loft companies aren’t keeping a check on who they hire.
so should all retailers that sold a samsung galaxy note now be held responsible for the issues with the phone? as surely by this logic they would have needed to take responsibility for the workmanship.
it is a serious issue however if you only name the loft company whats the benefit for other users of the forum; given many builders may use a particular scaffolding company.
surely it makes more sense to name the scaffolding company?
Yes.
Your rights under the Consumer Rights Act are against the retailer – the company that sold you the product – not the manufacturer, and so you must take any claim to the retailer.
See http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-rights-act
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As no-one actually knows the cause of this we are probably best off waiting to see what the investigation reveals before we start naming and shaming.
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Totally agree.
“so should all retailers that sold a samsung galaxy note now be held responsible for the issues with the phone? as surely by this logic they would have needed to take responsibility for the workmanship”
Probably legally yes but even theoretically this isn’t really the same argument at all.
My mum and daughter walked past less than 10 minutes before the collapse. I hope the police prosecute and also that anyone else using the same company gets to find out which loft company it is so they can check the safety of their scaffolding if nothing else.
Indeed part of the problem with the Galaxy phone was that they denied a problem and more people had their phones catch fire - which could have been avoided if people had known to be careful and check for issues
I’m starting make educated guesses now but I reckon that, as far as compensation goes, everything will depend on who the contract was with. If the loft conversion company had a ‘do it all’ arrangement then the scaffolding company is their subcontractor so the builders will be the first port of call. They can then go after the scaffolders.
If the builders said “We usually use these scaffolding guys but you can ask them and pay them yourself,” then you go directly to the scaffolders.
As far as a prosecution under health and safety law is concerned, if there was negligence then it’s likely it will be them that gets done. But we just don’t know. Did the building firm do anything they shouldn’t have done? E.g., put too much heavy material on it? Overload the winch? Were the brackets faulty? Was there a localised tornado that nobody noticed?
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well, all you need to do is walk by to see what company it is. I don’t think in this instance it’s ‘naming and shaming’ when scaffolding collapses on a public residential street, crushing cars and endangering people. Glad they are doing their best to clean it all up though and, of course, that no one was hurt!
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