Moving to a house

View of the villa from the back yard


Today the move to the house took place. Unfortunately it happened the same day that I had to go to Egypt so after finding a mover (went with a local company from the Deira area) and negotiating the price I thought that everything would be fine and just for Charlotte to supervise the move. Unfortunately it wasn't that easy...

To start with there had been a misunderstanding regarding the size of the sofa so the movers came with a small van. So, of course they had to go back and get a bigger van and the price was increased. Fair enough, let's go with this anyway. Well, it took them a long time to get the van and fill it up but everything was running smoothly I thought until I got a call when boarding started. Apparently the movers had lowered the sofa to avoid hitting a lamp outside the elevator and one of the legs made a scratch in the marble.

So, of course one of the facilities people tried to make some money out of this by demanding 1000 AED for the damage. Charlotte went by the apartment to see the damage and apparently it was almost impossible to see this scratch which the facilities people referred to as a cracked and totally damaged tile. Having been back there later on I can also confirm that this "crack" is nowhere to be found. Anyway, this didn't help me at the time since I couldn't go there to inspect.

Trying to mediate between the movers and the facilities people was a almost impossible task especially since it was time to take off so I said that I will guarantee that if there actually is a problem I will pay when I get back and hung up the phone.......

The actual ending of this story was that the movers got tired of the facilities people and ended up calling the police to solve the difference. Once the police arrived they basically told the facility guy to never bother them with such obvious ridiculous claims ever again and the move to the hose could finally continue late in the evening.

Posted at 04:00AM Nov 14, 2007 by Tobias Karlsson in Living  |