Bad builder forum

greenfish2

Warning: Bad builder, poor work practice, poor customer care and service
Given firm name: Sam Jhe Building Contractors
Given address: 301a Tamworth Lane, Mitcham CR4 1DD UK (note this is a rented property, also letter sent by special delivery not collected to my knowledge to date)

But also operates under another name.

Registered with Companies House on 20/6/2011 as:
Sam Xue Constructions Ltd
Reg. address: Flat 3 Rozelle Court Dunheved Road South Thornton Heath CR7 6AD
Companies House number 07674628
Director Mr Erqiang Xue (uses English name of Sam / Sam Xue)
Originally from mainland China
Erqiang Xue / Sam Xue date of birth 03/07/1971

Will leave work incomplete and disappear when he has taken the majority of your funds.

Will ask for payment in cash, saying that he cannot pay his men.

Will leave you with shoddy and careless work. In some cases potentially dangerous work. If he has been working at your house you are recommended to bring in qualified people to check his work.

Break and damage items and leave it up the owner to find out about the breakages.

Leave rubbish inside and outside of the house.

Things may disappear from your house.

Employs incompetent and unqualified workmen, who barely speak any English if at all.

The majority of his workmen will go onto another job leaving one workmen to maintain appearances for weeks. And still demand weekly payment, if Sam Xue does not get his payment on time he will become verbally abusive and threatening. He will also get his henchmen to do likewise.

Warning-bad builder Warning-operates from rented address
Director information
Title: Mr Name: Erqiang Xue DOB 03/07/1971,
App. Date: 20/06/2011

Information supplied by Companies House:
Name & Registered Office:
SAM XUE CONSTRUCTION LTD
FLAT 3
ROZELLE COURT, DUNHEVED ROAD SOUTH
THORNTON HEATH
UNITED KINGDOM
CR7 6AD
Registered Office is a Flat; leasehold brought 16 Feb 2007 £151,500
Registered owner for this address is SOUTH EAST PROPERTY LIMITED (co. Regn. No. 0572319) of 80 Green lane, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8BE
Company No. 07674628
Status: Active
Date of Incorporation: 20/06/2011

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Company Type: Private Limited Company
Nature of Business (SIC):
None Supplied
Accounting Reference Date: 30/06
Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED)
Next Accounts Due: 20/03/2013
Last Return Made Up To:
Next Return Due: 18/07/2012
Previous names: No previous name information has been recorded over the last 20 years
UK Establishment Details: There are no UK Establishments associated with this company
Oversea Company Info: There are no Oversea Details associated with this company

Additional info:-
Operates under the following details (as at June 2011)
Sam Xue / Mr E Xue
Sam Jhe Building Contractors
301a Tamworth lane, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 1DD (rented property)
Van registration HY52 UYW Make: Mercedes Model: SPRINTER 311 CDI MWB Colour: White

Now Sam Xue construction Ltd giving the company address as 49 Kynaston Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 7AZ. This property was brought in Feb 2013.

Taz_Devil

I remortgaged earlier this year to have a new kitchen and bathroom installed. This was taken on by Robert Kent of Sheffield who quoted me just short of £9000 for the work. He missed various items that were quoted for, Plastering Bathroom walls, bathroom lights, radiator valves. His original quote was for the work to be done over 15 days, this ended up taking over 6 weeks. We were left without any means to cook after he removed the cooker from our kitchen and took 18 days to fit the new one. His workmanship has deteriated over the last 6 months and he will not repair any of the faults I have with the installations.

Problems are:-
Kitchen Cupboard loose on wall.
Kitchen sink leaking.
Bathroom light he fitted was old light from kitchen and this fused the main fuse, leaving us without upstairs lighting for over 12 hours. I had to call in an emergency electrician to sort this out.
Had to have a plummer out to sort out leaking hotwater pipe in bathroom.
Plug in sink is jammed in the plug hole.
Bath moves, shower screen swings inwards when stood in bath

The list just goes on. Even after sending various letters outlining the problems he has refused to do anything about it. Leaving me unable to afford to have these problems sorted without getting into financial difficulties to cover the costs

So that is Robert Kent (Rob Kent Interiors) of Sheffield. Used to be AM Interiors but he no longer uses that. Lives at 90 Lennox Road, Sheffield just in case he has changed his telephone number.

ellanvannin_2

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My warning is also for a Johnson company - A. Johnson Construction of Crewe, Cheshire. The website looks professional and talks about a "team" - this is a one-man band who is over-stretched, extremely disorganised, doesn't do what's asked, is in too much of a hurry to do things right, and hasn't a clue about quoting for jobs and carrying them out within an agreed timescale. He will disappear every Tuesday to go to college and probably be in your home working until near midnight to try and meet his deadlines, all of which doesn't stop him and his sub-contractor(s) stopping for a break/cigarette/snack every hour or so. But, he'll reckon it's all your fault, it can't possibly be his! Thankfully we held the purse strings so had control at the end of the day. Dealing with this man was extremely stressful and not to be recommended. Even though you're living in your home, he will treat it as a pure building site.

powderhound

Heres a sorry tale and a warning to anyone even considering using this guy. Gareth Walker of Dragon Build. He may have abandoned his website and his business name by now.

I contracted this guy to build an extension and other works that would complete a conversion from a house to two flats.

He estimated the work would take 7 weeks, 7 months later he had abandoned the job in a complete state of disrepair and dodgy work.

the list of faults and incomplete work is very extensive but here are the highlights.

Sloping Floors in new extension
Paved back yard has no fall so fills with water
Kitchen floor has a lovely dip in the middle
Wrong roof insulation and no floor insulation
no building control completion will be allowed, for above
Negligent boiler installation resulting in immediate failure
No gas certificate
No electrical certificate
gas, elec and water services not connected although paid for
Kitchen was installed but missing doors etc
Kitchen worktop was too low for appliances to fit and not level

This guy owes us £25000, we have now discover many other that have been treated the same way by him. we have now, too late discover he has 7 county court attachments to his property

Stay well clear of Gareth Walker of sutton surrey nr london
and thats just the highlights but I think you get the picture.

My lesson , do more homework and then do some more

Baby_Sue

resindrives.co.uk - Left my garden a mess, damaged my fence and handle complaints by ignoring them.

sk429

AVOID AT ALL COSTS....

This hideous little man tried to scam me out of thousands whilst remaining rude, uncooperative, disrespectful and disruptive.

Listed as:

M Linforth General Builder
37 Brays Road
Luton
LU2 9DD

I can't even go into the trouble this guy has caused me. It's disgusting, these conmen ruin our lives to fund theirs, there should be some sort of register they can go on to be BLACKLISTED!!

Daisy_Daisy

Has anyone had any experience of this company? They're well established and looked to be a safe bet but we're having no end of problems with them. Work is being done that isn't to specification, we've had a major leak from a bathroom they installed, our renovations were due to be completed weeks ago but we have a long list of jobs that still haven't been done or are sub standard and they have so far refused to give us firm dates for when they'll finish the work.

Has anyone else had problems with them and if so did they get resolved in the end?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

Daisy_Daisy

It's been a month and still having problems. Does anyone on here know of any sites or forums where I can rate this builder? I've had a very bad experience with them and I'd like to be able to warn others. Are there any sites where you can rate a bad builder?

Or does anyone know of any existing reviews I could look at?

Daisy_Daisy

If anyone wants more information or pictures of the mess Thomas Winstanley have made of my house I've put them online at
seriouslynowyoucouldntmakethisup (dot) blogspot (dot) co (dot) uk

Daisy_Daisy

Update: 6 weeks have passed since my first post and my house is still no further on than it was back then. In fact it's worse in some ways because they've had to take out half my kitchen because it went mouldy due to their negligence with the plumbing and now I'm told they need to take up my bathroom flooring because it's been fitted over badly prepared floor boards. They prepared them!

I've started a blog in the hope that anyone searching on google for some feedback on this company will see just what they've done. It's all true as the pictures will verify.

seriouslynowyoucouldntmakethisup.blogspot.co.uk