On 13 May, 07:18, (A.Lee) wrote:
I've just finished a Council Grant job replacing some floor boards and
rotten joists.

I usually give a years warranty on any work, but as this is a thing that
should last 50+ years, what warranty would be reasonable for such a job?

Thanks
Alan.

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Dear Alan
It does you credit that you are normally issuing a warranty at all but
why are you?
As MD of a firm that has been specialising in timber treatment etc
where there is a commercial culture of offering such warranties/
guarantees we used to have to in order to comply with the requirements
of the client's building society / lender who for some incredible
reason seemed to think that they had some value.
In thirty years of work we never had to service any guarantee claim.
Most have now run out since we stopped contracting in the mid 90s

Other firms offering guarantees - and I have worked for two of them -
did so to cover what was in effect the bad design or workmanship of
the staff who did the job and in many cases the exclusion clauses
were so onerous as to make the paper meaningless.

In your case if you are not actually asked for one I would not bother
to offer it. Consumer law is such that if you do a defective job you
can be sued anyway. If, as I suspect, your job is A1 you wont be
called in. The thing to be sure of is to ensure you specify to them
that they must not change the environment of the timber eg by blocking
up air vents or bridging the dpc
Chris