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As it's Christmas we need a picture of a glum face OP pointing at his phone (obviously) with the caption 'Compoface for not being able to upload the right Compoface...'
[I'm making the big assumption OP has a partner/friend who can take the picture (with their phone/device) as OP will be pointing at his phone which contains the picture taking facility...]
Thank goodness for that! It would seem a missed opportunity not to point at what the issue was in case we all suddenly lost the power to imagine...hopefully the BBC will start putting a handy red arrow ( or yellow for us who are colour blind) belt and braces 😀
You can imagine it though: just trying to insulate your house with a government grant and now it's an uninhabitable death trap and nobody is taking responsibility.
I got rejected for the grant and I actually feel like I've dodged a bullet. They would have put interior wall insulation on 8 walls including the massive hallway wall. Looked up the providers and it was just the one firm in Liverpool that had the contract and terrible reviews on Trustpilot
I love a good compoface story where posh muppets are pointing at an imperceptible defect on their Mercedes paintwork, or a glum faced, hung over bloke holding a fire-blackened chip pan as much as anyone else.
I often see mould stories and think "Aldi sell a bottle of spray that would sort that out if you could be arsed you lazy minger"
In this case it's a real hazard, and it's a professional job to strip out mould ridden internal insulation (which the company seem to be refusing to do).
One of the houses impacted when this was shown on BBC news this morning was looking at tens of thousands of pounds of work to fix the issue. So in fairness it isn't straightforward, especially as some of the firms who fitted this crap and should be fixing it have now gone into liquidation.
This thread is great when the story is funny or ridiculous. Whereas this story is genuinely saddening if you read it in full. Someone’s house being ruined for Christmas with mould, meaning their teenage son can’t stay there for health reasons isn’t a compo face.Â
It should be every tax payer who is pointing and looking sad as we're the mugs who gave money to the cowboys who fitted the insulation. Who wants to have a fiver with me that the politicians who set up this scheme have, or are promised, a nice non-executive seat on the board of said company?
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Proper sad face, consoling arm round him.
That's a class compoface right there
Just wish they were just pointing at something...
There's another pic on the BBC homepage where they're stood underneath the mould with compo faces. Tried to upload them both but couldn't work it out
As it's Christmas we need a picture of a glum face OP pointing at his phone (obviously) with the caption 'Compoface for not being able to upload the right Compoface...'
[I'm making the big assumption OP has a partner/friend who can take the picture (with their phone/device) as OP will be pointing at his phone which contains the picture taking facility...]
Thank goodness for that! It would seem a missed opportunity not to point at what the issue was in case we all suddenly lost the power to imagine...hopefully the BBC will start putting a handy red arrow ( or yellow for us who are colour blind) belt and braces 😀
Hah I was literally about to come post this one! Perfect compo faces here.
I almost wanted to reach into the screen and give him a hug!
Yeah, this face is the face of compo 2025
Aw he looks genuinely upset. That's not a compoface it's just depressing.
Saw it on the news this morning, the guy looked utterly defeated by it all.
You can imagine it though: just trying to insulate your house with a government grant and now it's an uninhabitable death trap and nobody is taking responsibility.
I got rejected for the grant and I actually feel like I've dodged a bullet. They would have put interior wall insulation on 8 walls including the massive hallway wall. Looked up the providers and it was just the one firm in Liverpool that had the contract and terrible reviews on Trustpilot
Depressoface?
Its just not as satisfying as a compoface when they have genuine reasons to be upset. Bring on the entitled chancers.
I dunno, it seems like a thing that anyone i know would just get it sorted and stay somewhere else for a few days
Government funded insulation scheme has fucked up their house, this goes beyond the Christmas compo face
I love a good compoface story where posh muppets are pointing at an imperceptible defect on their Mercedes paintwork, or a glum faced, hung over bloke holding a fire-blackened chip pan as much as anyone else.
I often see mould stories and think "Aldi sell a bottle of spray that would sort that out if you could be arsed you lazy minger"
In this case it's a real hazard, and it's a professional job to strip out mould ridden internal insulation (which the company seem to be refusing to do).
One of the houses impacted when this was shown on BBC news this morning was looking at tens of thousands of pounds of work to fix the issue. So in fairness it isn't straightforward, especially as some of the firms who fitted this crap and should be fixing it have now gone into liquidation.
While this is a genuinely sad story the headline makes it sound like the mould has moved into the son’s room like a lodger they can’t get rid of.
This thread is great when the story is funny or ridiculous. Whereas this story is genuinely saddening if you read it in full. Someone’s house being ruined for Christmas with mould, meaning their teenage son can’t stay there for health reasons isn’t a compo face.Â
Remember when compoface was middle class people complaining about first world problems?
This is just a sad story 😔
It should be every tax payer who is pointing and looking sad as we're the mugs who gave money to the cowboys who fitted the insulation. Who wants to have a fiver with me that the politicians who set up this scheme have, or are promised, a nice non-executive seat on the board of said company?
Terrible story when you read the link.
The photo of the compoface is 10 on 10 though
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0ne0k70dro
It'll be lonely this Christmas
With a house full of mould
It'll be lonely this Christmas
Lonely and cold
There will be plenty of mould
But not you to hold
This Christmas
Why not go to the grandmother's for Christmas then seeing as the teenage son is doing that?
got to be in the running for compo face of the year
Bonus points for the compo-tache
Maybe their son can just leave his mouldy home and go to theirs? It's a stretch I know..
It's their home that's riddled with mouldÂ
Leave your house and visit your son?
"The family are going to stay with Mr Wadley's sister for Christmas so they can all be together."
Jesus, does nobody read the article anymore? The answer to that question is ALSO in there.
I posted it and didn't read the article 🤣
Their son is staying with his grandmother as he has asthma and can't be in his parents' mouldy house anymore.
I think it's their house with the mould, but they could go to the son's place surely. They probably will, but not before looking sad on bbc news
The son's at university. I'd rather be in a mouldy house than a student house, personally.
Well then why doesn't his son come round for Xmas 🤣
Haha yes
Does anyone know if they are social-housing inhabitants?