A Home-Improvement Project That Goes 38 Years?

A Dec. 19, 2013 court hearing has been set as the city of St Charles seeks to take over and complete a 38-year home renovation project the owner has yet to complete on Prairie Street, the Daily Herald reports.

During the hearing, the city will ask Kane County Circuit Judge David Akemann to allow it to complete the renovation project, which has languished despite years of court battles and a consent decree that gave Cliff McIlvaine until September 2012 to complete the work on his home at 605 Prairie St., according to the Daily Herald.

The deadline passed without completion.

The city won permission to install a new roof and exterior stairwell on the home — at McIlvaine’s expense. St. Charles Patched reported in June 2013 when the City Council awarded a contract for that work, which was expected to take about a week to complete.

The Daily Herald reports that McIlvaine since has filed with the court, asking for damages that occurred in early July when the new roof leaked.leak that occurred in the new roof installed by a contractor working for the city.

McIlvaine told the Daily Herald he filed a claim for $40,000 in water damage and for $20,000 damage for the removal of insulation for the superinsulated roof he had been trying to install before the city took over and had a conventional roof installed.

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• More details in the Daily Herald.