Is it unreasable to pay this bill?

lfc321

yoxford2008 wrote: »

I did not receive the Safety cert until yesterday, nearly three months after he did it.
There was faults with the electric which needed fixing,if the house had burnt down I would not have been insured as the Insurance company would have said your safety cert says the wiring is faulty.
I paid someone else to check the electrics and also to rectify any problems.

Not quite clear what happened here. Did

a) He find the faults, fix them and then issue the safety cert? if so then you should pay him for the work done IMO. If he did the work fine but was just slow in passing the certificate and invoice onto you then that's a bit of an inconvenience, but not the end of the world.

or

b) Did he find the faults, you got someone else to fix them, and then he issued a cert? This sounds dodgy if he is effectively certifying someone else's work and you may have a case for not paying him.

or

c) He did the work badly, you had to get someone else in to finish the job and make the electrics safe, and now he has issued a certificate. Again, you may have a case for not paying (or at least not paying the ful amount)