All My Musical Equipment Is Ruined thanks to Stewart Milne the cheap cunt

[lovers_spit]

We just moved into a new Stewart Milne house.

Band practice room is in the garage.

The garage roof just caved in due to broken pipes.

£3000 worth of damage done to various recording equipments, instruments, as well as wrecking posters, lyrics, new demos and tabs for new songs.

Thats not including the repair cost for the plumbing and the actual roof.

Stwart Milne is a cheap cunt.

All upcoming gigs and radio shows will probably still go ahead (I'm in Taping Hands To Faces), but we may not be firing on all cylinders

[lepeep]

no, he's the best business man in the north east.
so I hear.

you bought one of his houses?...no research then?

PS - commiserations though, that sounds like a bastard thing to happen.

PPS...if you have people round to survey the damage, don't get them to stand in the same place all at once, Milne might just sue you...

[Captain America]

Can't you just claim it on home insurance?

[glennbuchan]

Originally Posted by lovers_spit

We just moved into a new Stewart Milne house.

Band practice room is in the garage.

The garage roof just caved in due to broken pipes.

£3000 worth of damage done to various recording equipments, instruments, as well as wrecking posters, lyrics, new demos and tabs for new songs.

Thats not including the repair cost for the plumbing and the actual roof.

Stwart Milne is a cheap cunt.

All upcoming gigs and radio shows will probably still go ahead (I'm in Taping Hands To Faces), but we may not be firing on all cylinders

gutted?

Stewart Milne Group not pay for the damage, at least to the roof?

What sort of stuff was in the garage? Not manage to rescue any of it?

[doobie]

heard a few stories like yours with all the new houses going up in the north east, one taxi driver told me his living room room colapsed after pipes leaked, on investigation they found the pipes did not leak but weren't actually connected together! was from a taxi driver though so cant believe it all!

[lovers_spit]

drum kit and one guitar is fine

but a rather expensive keyboard, an 8 track, a bass and a guitar, a mic, an ibanez amp and a laney amp, and a banjo are ruined as well as quite a lot of material ie tabs, lyrics, old demos. or so it appears right now. im just hoping i can maybe save some of it.

yeah we can claim most of it back on insurance, but a lot of the things that were wrecked were given to me by relatives at some point or ive had to work really hard to afford, and they have a lot of sentimental value attatched to them. also, i cant claim back songs i was working on and lyrics that were yet to be memorized, not huge things but still a big setback.

and please, i do realise he's a succesful businessman, but when you pay a lot of money, or even not so much money for a house, if its new, you dont expect it to fall to pieces within a month. this isnt like a dent or a scratch, this is a huge fucking deal.

incidentally ian wood is the most succesful businessman in the north east, (or perhaps his son) and he didnt get there by ripping people off.
its only now im hearing of loads of stories about stewart milne homes going wrong. and i live with my dad so what exactly am i meant to research? not like it'd sway him into buying a house here or not.

[Neutral]

Small claims court

Small claims in the sheriff court
Making a Claim

[lovers_spit]

thanks man

but its more down to the fact that there was a lot of things with sentimental value in there, im not so bothered by money cos it looks like we'll get a good chunk of it back.

[spellchecker]

Maybe, if you can find them, it's the A-Team that you need.

[Bigsby]

Ouch. I would suggest negotiating a VERY favouarble settlement with SMG (profit last year=£42m), otherwise you go to the papers ("Teen Rocker's Dream Ruined by Shoddy Workmanship"), and Nicky Campbell.