A mother is concerned about the health of her nine-month-old baby as she battles plummeting temperatures she claims is the result of work done to her home. 

The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, lives in Vickers House, just down the road from Queen’s Hospital. 

Earlier this year, the Recorder ran a story about how scaffolding erected due to ongoing recladding work meant some residents were blocked in their homes as temperatures soared during the summer’s heatwaves. 

Now, another resident has claimed that work beginning on her home in September has caused gaps to appear around her windows, draining the heat from her property. 

“When they did the brickwork, the top windows have gone out of place,” she said. 

Since then, she said she has been chasing the company carrying out the work, Lawtech, but that they “keep pushing it and pushing it”. 

“Now we are obviously in November, it’s really cold.” 

And to complicate things further, she has a nine-month-old baby. 

She said she and her partner have moved the child back into their bedroom, as “in the evening there’s only one room where the window shuts". 

To counter the issue, she said she is having to force clothes into the gap to try and prevent the heat escaping. 

This Is Local London: The resident claims that the gaps only started appearing after work was done to her homeThe resident claims that the gaps only started appearing after work was done to her home (Image: Supplied)

A spokesperson for Lawtech disputed the work being done would have caused the windows to move. 

They did suggest, however, that the previous cladding, which has been removed, “was, to some extent, masking the issue”. 

A total of five homes are being affected by the work, they added, and that due to Lawtech now being involved, it will be fixing the issues this week. 

“We have a fitter attending site this week to look at remedying the issue in our offices as a test. If this is successful, they will look to make the appropriate adjustments in the other affected properties by the end of this week (likely to be Friday, November 25).  

“If they cannot remedy the issue, we shall have a specialist attend as soon as possible (ideally next week),” they said. 

A spokesperson for Estuary added: “Lawtech have inspected and reported that the issue is not related to the building works, so we have a surveyor scheduled to visit this week.” 

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