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Link: https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/property-home/article/i-got-a-government-grant-for-spray-foam-insulation-now-i-cant-sell-my-house-p5z5l7pzb Mandy Hutson installed spray-foam insulation in her home through a government grant, but faced difficulties selling her house as lenders refused mortgages due…

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx88w8yvq1xo Residents near a new housing development in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, are concerned after large cracks appeared in a home’s driveway and garden, attributed to…

Link: https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/carillion/carillion-collapse-left-council-with-13-5m-defects-bill-31-05-2024/ Oxfordshire County Council spent over £13.5 million to fix defects in buildings previously worked on by Carillion, including 24 schools and other facilities.…

Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13455179/Were-stuck-mouldy-flat-11-children-one-toilet-council-help-us.html Wahidullah Safi and his family, including his pregnant wife and eleven children, are living in a mould-infested, overcrowded three-bedroom flat in Canning Town,…

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldd222zn4po A two-storey restaurant, part of the Medusa Beach Club in Palma de Mallorca, collapsed, killing four people and injuring 16, reportedly due to…

Link: https://www.labcwarranty.co.uk/news-blog/peer-review-where-defects-occurred-in-202 In 2023, over a third of building defects were related to external walls, followed by roofs at 15% and internal walls at 10%.…

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68924955 A three-year-old girl named Saylor Class complained of “monsters” in her bedroom, which turned out to be 60,000 honeybees in the walls of…

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51nyl9kkrxo Residents in south Devon have criticized South West Water’s handling of a cryptosporidiosis outbreak, which has affected over 46 people with symptoms like…