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Drain smells and home drainage systems: why your home smells of sewage and how to claim if it is a new build
A sewage smell at home is one of the most unpleasant problems a property can have. It causes real concern because it is seen as something difficult to fix. That is not quite the case, but when it appears in the bathroom, in the kitchen or next to the washing machine,...
Structural Damage and Building Pathologies: What They Are, Examples and How to Claim Against the Building Contractor or Developer
A crack that widens every winter, a door that suddenly no longer closes, a floor slab that sags or a garage with spalling concrete and exposed reinforcement. Behind many of these symptoms lie structural damage and building pathologies: defects that originate in the...
Building contractor ordered to pay over €25,000 for defective flooring in a home
The Civil Division of the Court of First Instance of Jaén (Tribunal de Instancia, Plaza nº 3) has handed down Judgment no. 396/2026, dated 29 September 2026, fully upholding the claim brought by the owners of a home against the building contractor responsible for the...
Claiming for Cracks in Your Home: These Are Your Options
A crack in the living-room wall, a diagonal hairline crack next to a door that no longer closes properly, or a façade that is starting to open up. Sound familiar? In many homes they are part of the building and, naturally, the first reaction is usually concern,...
Is it worth taking action over latent defects?
This scenario is more common than we think: we move into a new home that has cost us many years of savings and, within a few months, the first cracks in a partition wall appear, a damp patch shows up on the bedroom ceiling or the living room floor starts to lift. In...
A repair agreement does not release the developer from liability
Court rules in favour of the homeowners' association: an earlier repair cannot take away its rights. A repair agreement does not release the developer from liability. Sometimes, after a new residential development is handed over with...
Well-known developer ordered to pay over one million euros
Ordered to pay over €1 million in compensation to a homeowners' association for persistent damp and water ingress in roofs and garages. Madrid Court of First Instance no. 42 has just ordered, in a judgment notified at the end...
Causes of water ingress in garages
Water ingress in new-build garages: causes, liability and solution. In a newly built residential development, water ingress in the garages, damp in the floor slabs and stains in the storage rooms are appearing after spells...
Lack of maintenance as grounds for rejecting defects
Why "lack of maintenance" does not justify rejecting a claim for defects. One of the most common arguments used by some building contractors to evade their technical and legal liability is to attribute the damage to a supposed...
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2026
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year 2026. Related articles DON'T HESITATE TO CONSULT US! CUSTOM BUDGETSThe information you submit will be added to a file owned by DPCON RECLAMACIONES JUDICIALES S.L. It will be...
LOE time limits are guarantee periods
A new judgment proves us right once again. The time limits in the LOE are neither limitation periods nor expiry periods, but guarantee periods. On 3 December 2025, Court of First Instance and Preliminary Investigation...
How to prevent condensation caused by thermal bridges
Can thermal bridges and condensation in homes be prevented? How to prevent condensation caused by thermal bridges. A thermal bridge is an area of a building where the thermal insulation is lower than in the rest of the...
Car lift far too narrow
New judgment upholding a claim over a car lift and parking spaces that do not comply. Seville Court of First Instance no. 15 has upheld in full the lawsuit filed by a homeowners' association (our client) against the developer that sold...
Facade Cladding Judgment
Judgment condemns to compensate 16 owners with €360,000. Archive photo of other terraced houses The judgment condemns the developer mainly for the poor installation of the facade cladding of 16 terraced houses. DPCON has just obtained a...
Happy Holidays and Happy 2025
Related articles DON'T HESITATE TO CONSULT US! CUSTOM BUDGETSArrange an online meetingThe communication sent will be incorporated into a file for which DPCON RECLAMACIONES JUDICIALES S.L. is responsible. This...
Defects in finishes can be claimed after 1 year
Contractual liability covers all types of defects. We have recently obtained another judgment against a well-known developer. The action brought against this company was for contractual liability as the...
10-year structural insurance (seguro decenal)
What 10-year structural insurance is, what it covers and how insurers usually respond. 10-year structural insurance What 10-year structural insurance is What amount the 10-year structural insurance must cover. How insurers...
Advance payments for off-plan homes
Developers are obliged to provide a number of guarantees when receiving advance payments Banks must demand these guarantees or they will be secondarily liable for them. Prompted by some well-known cases of...
Judgment for construction defects in two terraced houses
Developer ordered to pay €85,000 for construction defects in two terraced houses. A first-instance judgment has just been notified, handed down by Madrid Court of First Instance no. 33, finding in favour of the...
Judgment: court-appointed expert fully backs our case
Construction defects judgment awards €193,889.78 plus costs, with the court-appointed expert's report matching ours. The legal department of DPcon Reclamación Daños Constructivos has once again obtained a judgment upholding the...
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