Hull council tenants' anger at delayed action on dangerous brickwork

“Somebody should buy the HDM photographer a new lens for xmas. That fish-eye he uses in every shot must be nearly worn out by now.

Oh... And a spirit level wouldn't go amiss either.”

“It was KWL but they wern't involved in the issue until 4 months after I began complaining.
It is really the Project Manager at Hull Council who is to blame for not addressing my concerns and not stressing to KWL the importance of fitting the lintels at the same time as the door.
The original door fitter's role was to fit the door and nothing else. A builder was tasked to fit lintels and replace loose or missing bricks as a seperate job at that 4 month point instead of the lintels being integrated with the door fitting hence he didn't get notified to do each job until after the door was fitted which meant a 10 to 12 day delay.
However for our doors fitted in february we had to wait 5 months until may when the project manager was forced to concede that there was a danger to the public.
The reason the council concede that only one brick fell is because I gave them a picture as photographic evidence which they cannot deny however I do have pictures of bricks that have fallen from above a number of other doorways which I didn't show them.”

“if it was k.w.l. did the work say no more”

“No offense taken ColonelKurz I thought it was humorous as well and my response was in the same vein”

“Crippley, I applaud your sense of humour. In hindsight the last sentence on my post was uncalled for, but was in jest and not intended to be malicious. My apologies.”

“Thanks Strangely-He borrowed one from the flats
However; I've now got a picture in my head of Peter the photographer trotting round Hull and East Riding with his trusty ladder on one shoulder and his camera slung accross the other”

“Does he bring his own ladder, or borrow yours?”

“Actually the reason we look so serious in the photo is that we were worried about Peter the photographer swinging from the ladder like a demented monkey trying to get the perfect angle for his shot.”

“Unfortunately the door frames did support the brickwork the building was erected in the 60's when such support was allowed because the brickwork above the door is only up to 3 courses and is not structural as the letter from the council states. The metal lintel shown over my front door was put in place in June, 5 months after I reported the issue. There is Photographic evidence of fallen bricks which HDM chose not to publish, probably because it was of poor quality compared to the photo taken by the photographer, ie me vs bricks, no contest:-). 2 doors in my block were installed in September, 9 months after the start of the project (they were missed when the block had doors fitted originally in february) leaving up to 3 courses of bricks unsupported both these doors had the steel lintels fitted between 10 and 12 days after the new doors were fitted. One of these doors a brick popped out within days of the door being fitted. 2 other doors in the block had bricks fall one of them 5 bricks fell from 2 courses before lintels were fitted (I have evidence and witnesses to this). The work that was done was of very high quality the problem was that the project managers refused to accept the danger of the unsupported bricks and didn't include the lintels as part of the door installation. The photographer was actually quite short (to me anyway I'm 6ft 3" and most people are short in comparison) but you are right he was a bit like spiderman hanging precariously off a ladder to take the picture, brave lad. I'm a bit wobbly on my feet, you can't see my right hand in the photo but I was holding on to the side of the wall so I wouldn't fall flat on my face and crossing one arm is a bit difficult. I don't think the picture would have been relevant to the article if we had been grinning at the camera. As for the variation in our heights, there you have the long and short of it.
Cheers”

“glen i agree”