Today on the Brownstoner Backpages
Over on the Renovation Blogs, the Greenwood Heights Backyard blog launches today with a discussion of the “positive side” of a construction fence. Welcome aboard! Here are some of the topics posted on The Forum today: Radiator’s Available Free Butcher Block Cutting Board Honed or Polished Marble for Countertops? Using Dark Hardwood for Modern Condo…
Over on the Renovation Blogs, the Greenwood Heights Backyard blog launches today with a discussion of the “positive side” of a construction fence. Welcome aboard!
Here are some of the topics posted on The Forum today:
Radiator’s Available
Free Butcher Block Cutting Board
Honed or Polished Marble for Countertops?
Using Dark Hardwood for Modern Condo Floors
Wildly Divergent Contractors’ Estimates
I’m curious: how do you know that the developer will be compensating you for the necessary damage to your aging patio? And especially, how do you know that they’ll be compensating you for the headache of a spring and summer lost to dust and noise?
I ask because I have a large development going up next door to me and my beloved garden. (They are not using any part of my garden, except that they’ve built their blue plywood construction fence encroaching on my property without discussion, permission, or compensation. I’ve asked them to move the fence back.) So far my developer has promised on the phone and in email to “make it right” if anything is damaged (including my plants). But after jackhammering off bits of our facade during asbestos removal before demolition of the building next door they said that they’d bring me options for repair, then instead slapped cement on the facade and said that the repair was done. I don’t know if I can trust them.
Have you had discussions with the developer where they’ve explicitly laid out what sort of compensation you’ll be receiving?