FDM knowingly and willingly destroyed my property during neighboring construction. My garage collapsed with everything in it. The Department of Buildings ordered the entire rear portion of my property vacated due to the hazardous situation. My central air conditioning was destroyed and had to be replaced. FDM employees constantly harrassed my family and myself. They used my utilities and property without permission. We tried talking to them, negotiating with them, all to no avail. We then took them to Court.
In the course of litigation, the judge ordered them to fill a crater in my backyard, and make my property safe in order for an injunction and a Department of Buildings stop-work-order to be lifted. They filled the hole without backfilling the crater, and without tamping down the soil/debris under the cement. It is approximately two years since that time, and my backyard collapsed due to the negligent way in which FDM did the work. Had the ground been properly back-filled and tamped down, no settling of the ground would have occurred, and my backyard would have been fine, but the shoddy work they did just couldn't hold up.
I contacted FDM and their attorney. Their response was to send someone down to look at it (along with the engineer for the original project whom they subsequently sued as a third-party to my Court action). That was it. I have asked for their intentions regarding the repair of my backyard, as time is of the essence, but have not even received a response to that query. Its back to Court!
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