Alexandremiwren

[BearOnChair]

I renovated my whole house last year during summer, I bought a kettle, cups, tea coffee sugar, 4 pints of milk daily, cans of pop for the fridge, ice lolly’s and loads of biscuits and sausage rolls for my tradesmen. If I was home during the day I made them sandwiches… I cannot believe she is making such a song and dance about having to provide a hot drink! I’m sat waiting for my plumber to come and service my boiler and the first thing I’ll do when he gets here is ask if he wants a brew!

It's like she's never interacted with people before.

We had renovations done when we had a toddler and a newborn. I gave the builders a kettle, tea, coffee, milk, biscuits, squash etc and access to a fridge for keeping their food in and said just help yourself because I won't get round to offering very often! I made them a brew when they arrived each day and otherwise kept out the way. They said thanks and said most people don't like them using the kitchen because they assume they'll get stuff dirty or broken so it was nice to be treated like a person.
Not sure why it's so hard to be decent to people working in your home.

 

[have the privilege]

We set a station up in the garage when we had the paving done, it meant they had access when I wasn’t home and didn’t have to worry about muddy shoes (they’d been trying to take them off where I wasn’t bothered!)

it really isn’t rocket science. If you provide drinks and sandwiches it also limits time off site which makes it all a bit quicker as a bonus

 

[lisaaaah]

Oh so I see the back door got approved. She’s definitely already had builders in touch and willing to do the work for free. There is no way on earth, even with the money she is making from views and ads, that she can afford to have a back door built in, toilet ripped out, gas meter moved and her side door bricked up. And she definitely can’t take out a loan. Unless she’s getting her grandparents to take out a loan for her and she’s repaying them?
She’s has also definitely played on it to get that approval so quickly. After her saying it took 3 months to hear back about the fence, I don’t understand how in the space of a week she has enquired, had a surveyor out and been given approval to do major work on the house.

 

[Monkeymonkeyman]

I’ve never known a council work so fast!

 

[curlywhirlygal]

A thought has occurred to me. What if its not a council house and she's said that to me more relatable at the start.

Found this thread this morning, but I know the council where I live wouldn’t hand over a house the way hers was handed over or maybe that’s just my council one of my friends was allocated a council
House when her husband left the army under medical discharge and I went one day with her after she got the keys to master up for flooring and it was all freshly painted in magnolia etc not bare plaster on the walls and all the carpet still there, it’s normal practice where I live to gut a place freshen it up
Ready for the next tenant, I know this because another friend’s husband works for the housing department for our I dunno but something doesn’t add up.

 

[Monkeymonkeyman]

Found this thread this morning, but I know the council where I live wouldn’t hand over a house the way hers was handed over or maybe that’s just my council one of my friends was allocated a council
House when her husband left the army under medical discharge and I went one day with her after she got the keys to master up for flooring and it was all freshly painted in magnolia etc not bare plaster on the walls and all the carpet still there, it’s normal practice where I live to gut a place freshen it up
Ready for the next tenant, I know this because another friend’s husband works for the housing department for our I dunno but something doesn’t add up.

Our council does nothing and won’t leave carpet/floors down. Reason being if they were there when you arrived & get damaged/ worn the expectation is on the landlord to replace

 

[WitchPlease]

Oh so I see the back door got approved. She’s definitely already had builders in touch and willing to do the work for free. There is no way on earth, even with the money she is making from views and ads, that she can afford to have a back door built in, toilet ripped out, gas meter moved and her side door bricked up. And she definitely can’t take out a loan. Unless she’s getting her grandparents to take out a loan for her and she’s repaying them?
She’s has also definitely played on it to get that approval so quickly. After her saying it took 3 months to hear back about the fence, I don’t understand how in the space of a week she has enquired, had a surveyor out and been given approval to do major work on the house.

WTF we bought our house over 20 years ago and it still needs stuff doing to it! Ffs!

 

[Lalla]

I am very surprised the council have agreed to her doing such extensive work, this is completely against anything I know about council/ HA housing. It's all HA where I live, but you'd struggle to get permission to replace a window & door with a patio door, let alone to knock out two walls, remove a loo/ gas meter and put a new back door in.
Something definitely doesn't add up here. Either she's got the most effective and lenient council in England, or there's something else going on.

 

[emmer_moans]

I've seen this lady popping up in my Instagram feed a few times...it's like she loves arguing with the commentors and continues to post and show off knowing that in a cost of living crisis some people are going to have...questions.

 

[panpan1]

Probably blackmailing someone in the council

 

[Lizzie Mintdrop]

My niece needs adaptations for her son, they need a shower room putting in downstairs and patio doors putting in for safety - the neighbour, probably someone like Alex, shouts at him for playing out so they need a door into the back garden so my niece can keep an eye on him. This work was suggested by the adaptations team 3 years ago and it still hasn't been approved.

 

[curlywhirlygal]

My niece needs adaptations for her son, they need a shower room putting in downstairs and patio doors putting in for safety - the neighbour, probably someone like Alex, shouts at him for playing out so they need a door into the back garden so my niece can keep an eye on him. This work was suggested by the adaptations team 3 years ago and it still hasn't been approved.

Same here for a family member, needs a wet room installed, they’ve just given him a seat in the bath atm, he was told funding had already been allocated for this financial year so having to wait, there isn’t a time scale on the wait either, even the doctors have written to say he needs it doing, he’s unfortunately had to give up work because of his illness. He now doesn’t have a choice when he can shower as has to wait for someone to be in the house to help him. This man has worked his entire life, it’s such sorry state of affairs

 

[thegoodnaysayer]

I guess it's not beyond the realms of possibility that the council are wanting good publicity? I mean, remember Essex council paid that rando £500k to run a Facebook group so ya know. It's not as though it's beyond them!

 

[lisaaaah]

Found this thread this morning, but I know the council where I live wouldn’t hand over a house the way hers was handed over or maybe that’s just my council one of my friends was allocated a council
House when her husband left the army under medical discharge and I went one day with her after she got the keys to master up for flooring and it was all freshly painted in magnolia etc not bare plaster on the walls and all the carpet still there, it’s normal practice where I live to gut a place freshen it up
Ready for the next tenant, I know this because another friend’s husband works for the housing department for our I dunno but something doesn’t add up.

The council where I live definitely hand over some right tit holes. If the kitchen and bathroom are a state they usually replace them. And when I got my house I was shown a book to choose wallpaper from for the living room or I could have £50 in b&q vouchers. If the wallpaper was in good condition though then you wasn’t offered anything. It was only my living room wallpaper that was ripped so I wasn’t offered it for any other room.
I’m not sure if that’s still a thing though.
But you had to decorate it yourself, they only provided the materials.
I don’t know if it’s the same for every council or it’s changed now. But if you was to do an exchange then you couldn’t put a request in for any cosmetic repairs for the first year.

 

[Lalla]

Same here for a family member, needs a wet room installed, they’ve just given him a seat in the bath atm, he was told funding had already been allocated for this financial year so having to wait, there isn’t a time scale on the wait either, even the doctors have written to say he needs it doing, he’s unfortunately had to give up work because of his illness. He now doesn’t have a choice when he can shower as has to wait for someone to be in the house to help him. This man has worked his entire life, it’s such sorry state of affairs

That's awful, especially knowing the funding is there but the work still can't get done

If I knew which council this little madam lives in, I'd love to do a FOI request to ask how long they take to complete surveys/ agree to works being carried out on council properties, both generally and where people have disabilities or other issues. Councils love to claim they are underfunded/ have no manpower etc, but if I lived in her area and was waiting months for a surveyor either to inspect or authorise a change to my property that could be literally life changing, I'd be fuming if she was basically jumping the queue.

 

[louderforthecheapseats]

She lives in Doncaster, so assume city of Doncaster council

 

[curlywhirlygal]

That's awful, especially knowing the funding is there but the work still can't get done

If I knew which council this little madam lives in, I'd love to do a FOI request to ask how long they take to complete surveys/ agree to works being carried out on council properties, both generally and where people have disabilities or other issues. Councils love to claim they are underfunded/ have no manpower etc, but if I lived in her area and was waiting months for a surveyor either to inspect or authorise a change to my property that could be literally life changing, I'd be fuming if she was basically jumping the queue.

I think what drives me mad is I live where the council is one of ‘supposedly’ the richest in the country. But even seeing people struggle to get on the housing ladder/wait for social housing where they are all hard working is just crazy. The whole thing is just absolutely broken when it comes to housing in the country unfortunately

 

[Amyx1518]

Our council does nothing and won’t leave carpet/floors down. Reason being if they were there when you arrived & get damaged/ worn the expectation is on the landlord to replace

Yeah same, my council flat was in exactly the same condition as Alex's house when I got it. Nothing left apart from half torn off wallpaper in the front room.

 

[whoareyouu]

I think what drives me mad is I live where the council is one of ‘supposedly’ the richest in the country. But even seeing people struggle to get on the housing ladder/wait for social housing where they are all hard working is just crazy. The whole thing is just absolutely broken when it comes to housing in the country unfortunately

Their lack of activity is probably why they are the wealthiest council in the country.

 

[curlywhirlygal]

Their lack of activity is probably why they are the wealthiest council in the country.

Could of fooled me the wasteful things they do