'Our kitchen ceiling collapsed a year ago - it's still not been fixed'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA family's kitchen ceiling collapsed after they reported a leak months earlier. Farrukh Imtiaz says his wife could have been seriously hurt.
She watched in horror as the ceiling cracked and fell at their Hyde Home last July. Farrukh says his family have been left living without a kitchen ceiling ever since, in damp and humid conditions.
The father-of-four, 42, says he reported a leak - from the bathroom upstairs to the kitchen - to housing provider Onward Homes two months earlier. READ MORE: The Greater Manchester town where a 'five-minute journey can take half an hour' He says nothing was done and action wasn't taken until last week, adding: "My wife was working in the kitchen and then, all of a sudden, the ceiling just collapsed.
Fortunately she was not hurt. "I had to call and tell them [Onward Homes] what was happening and they said they would come around to take a look." The Pudding Lane resident said he has called customer services numerous times in the past year.
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