An Edinburgh man scuffling with lengthy Covid says he was pressured out of his dwelling after his yob neighbours triggered a flood leading to in depth injury to his flat.
Nurudin Ismail had his Tollcross flat flooded by upstairs neighbours on Could 6 inflicting water injury throughout his dwelling.
Edinburgh Dwell studies that the residents above "intentionally took the basin off the wall and minimize the pipes", inflicting an enormous flood which noticed water streaming into his flat and even onto the road outdoors.
Consequently, 39-year-old Nurudin was put into momentary lodging by housing affiliation Canmore Dunedin for 3 weeks whereas it despatched a painter to make repairs.
They later deemed the flat "liveable" - regardless of wires hanging from the sunshine fittings and water injury in a number of rooms.
Nonetheless, the housing affiliation says different repairs have since been made to make the property protected.
Nurudin has suffered from lengthy Covid since September final 12 months and struggles to breathe. The damp and water injury attributable to the flooding solely made this worse.
Consequently, his GP despatched him to get an x-ray to see if there may be everlasting injury to his lungs.
On high of the draining ordeal, he had been pressured to sleep on a pal's couch whereas ready for a response from his housing officer at Canmore Dunedin.
When inspecting the property, the Scottish Hearth and Rescue Service recognized various hazards in home, warning the heavy saturation of water within the ceilings "might pose a threat of falling at any time."
Nurudin mentioned: "I've been a tenant with Canmore for the final 11 years. I needed to transfer out of my earlier flat resulting from anti-social behaviour and I've simply moved in one other one with anti-social behaviour points.
"The survey man advised me we'll repair all the things however the housing officer refused saying we're not liable for your flooring and the carpet, however they've provided me partial repairs.
"I've well being issues and this has actually affected my psychological well being inflicting main anxiousness and stress.
"On Monday the housing officer known as the police to my home to try to get me sectioned claiming that I used to be mentally unfit.
"That pressured me out much more, the police got here spherical and I defined the scenario even the cops agreed the home was uninhabitable.
"They realised I used to be mentally sound and left however the entire ordeal was terrifying. I've been off sick since September final 12 months for lengthy Covid and a blood clot.
"I used to be recovering however since this incident I now really feel sick, pressured and anxious."
Police Scotland confirmed they have been known as to the property on Monday at round 10.30am however the individual spoke with the psychological well being workforce and was deemed OK.
It is not simply the large quantity of stress attributable to this incident which feels by no means ending to Nurudin, with lots of his private belongings which can be irreplaceable have been destroyed.
He defined: "The injury of the home misplaced a number of my issues, issues I can not purchase and substitute that meant quite a bit to me.
"Plenty of my sentimental belongings have been destroyed and I haven't got any assist from the housing officer."
The 39-year-old continued: "No repairs have been carried out since Covid and in the event that they [maintenance] do come it is very poor high quality companies however more often than not they do not flip up.
"Many occasions I've been ready for repairs to be carried out and no-one turned up with completely different excuses on a regular basis like no entry at property.
"I nonetheless haven't got a bathe and I am left with a flat with a poor high quality paint job and a home stuffed with damp.
"The shortage of assist makes it very tense residing right here."
Dunedin Canmore says it has now accomplished all the repairs mandatory for the flat to be "utterly protected".
A spokesperson mentioned: "We have been doing all the things we will to assist our tenant whose dwelling was flooded on account of anti-social behaviour from the neighbour above.
“This consists of repainting the flat and offering a brand new carpet. We additionally provided the tenant a brief transfer whereas our workforce carried out a full investigation and carried out repairs.
“We're in common contact with our tenant and can proceed to assist him whereas we feature out the ending touches.
“The flat is totally protected to return. All the electrical repairs at the moment are full.
"Nonetheless, our tenant has advised us he doesn’t want to return as a result of scent of recent paint.
“If he has any issues, we might urge him to contact us immediately.”
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