Paid family member for painting and its awful

redpete

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I know its cheap but its so bad we've now got to get someone else in the sort the mess out to the turn of £400. Our fault probably but its now going to cost more.[/QUOTE]
I would have suggested getting him back to correct the obvious errors - like finishing the doors, painting the bits he missed, but now you've done this that option has gone. If it were me I'd now just write it off and never ask him again.

hazyjo

I did a similar thing once where my ex used a mate (not exactly mate's rates, but ex seemed to think it was) and the job was pretty rubbish. He also managed to pull out radiator away from the wall (actually singing the praises of 'bendy pipes' which he'd never encountered) - it was only when we got a plumber out later to fix the leak from the radiator, we realised they weren't bendy pipes, but very delicate ones that shouldn't be bent - hence the leak).

We swallowed it to avoid bad feeling. I'd do that again if it was a mate or friend of friend or family/distant family. Unless it was an actual tradesman, I'd chalk it up as a lesson learnt.

btw, £200 still doesn't sound a lot to me!

Jx

burnoutbabe

Ask him to come back and fix the missing bits? how can anyone be get annoyed at you for asking that?

valk_scot

I'd ask him to come back round, point out the bits he's missed and ask him to rectify them. In a sort of firm but fair voice, the kind that implies there will be no argument about it because how could there be?


However I presume you've paid him already? Shame if you have, he probably won't want anything to do with coming round if you have. I wouldn't get SIL involved in it though, not her fault. If she offers him again for any jobs though I'd feel I would have to explain why you don't want to use him again.


All in all don't feel you have to be secretive about things or accept a poor job because he's a family connection. It's not your job to act as a charity and give someone money for poor quality work just because he's SIL's father.

paulsad

Father In Law (RIP) trimmed a door which was catching the carpet once for us whilst we were away - on return we had a two inch gap at the top of the door - Least he did it for free though!

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burnoutbabe wrote: »

Ask him to come back and fix the missing bits? how can anyone be get annoyed at you for asking that?

To be fair, wife did ask him to redo a few bits when he was there. In the end, he just was not interested.

He played us I think knowing that we couldnt really kick off big time because of the family involvement.

LEJC

potentially you were aware what type of job you might get before you employed him....and he knew.knows that your not willing to upset the "family applecart" by saying anything to your SIL...


lesson learnt

silvercar

We were once asked if we would give some decorating work to a friend of a friend who was financially struggling. My response was that I would prefer to pay him not to do the work!

onlyroz

thorsoak wrote: »

You pay peanuts ....you get monkeys!

You took the words out of my mouth. We recently paid somebody £100 a day plus materials to decorate our bedrooms and landing. If somebody is offering bargain basement prices where is their incentive to do a good job?

fivetide

I honestly thought this was going to be some issue over a portrait they were expecting you to put up in the lounge or something.

As has been said, with things like this sometimes you get what you pay for. The addage of 'buy cheap buy twice' also springs to mind.

Still, asking him to touch up the bits you aren't happy with wouldn't have been too bad. Perhaps even helping him. As you say, you were only after the same standard you could have done yourself.