URGENT ADVICE required - builder has made a bodge job of my bathroom refit.

thenap80

The tradesman took ages to complete whcih is why I took a while to visit for a second time to to see final product - he said he could ot find the soil pipe needed in stock anywhere as it was an old design. Then he took ages to what he says order it and return to fit it. SO he hadn't actually finished the job. When he had, I went round within days. The day he finished and left, my tenant immediately called me with her concern about carpet.

I asked chap to return and clean carpet. He did so and so I paid him 700 before going round 3 days later to look at bathroom which is when I saw it to be absolute rubbish.

The only reused thing was the shower screen and shower unit. EVERYTHING ELSE - new - or at least that is what I was led to believe - now not so sure!

I appreciate the advice on here but please don't jump to conclusions. The bathroom before was actually not to bad. But being nice, I decided that I would modernise it for the tenant. I could have just left it. But I did not mind spending the money. I don't know what a reasonable price is. For labour at 1100 for a four day job, i thought that would have been the going rate and reasonable. Not too cheap not too dear.

Aylesbury_Duck

People will draw conclusions based on information you provide. We've got nothing else to go on.

If you paid for the materials, did you not ask for receipts? That would tell you what was new and what was recycled.

southcoastrgi

What a bloody mess, the leaking wc can be sorted out but what you are going to do with the tiling goodness knows, I'd want a refund as well but I wouldn't hold my breath

Furts

southcoastrgi wrote: »

What a bloody mess, the leaking wc can be sorted out but what you are going to do with the tiling goodness knows, I'd want a refund as well but I wouldn't hold my breath

Nobody doubts this but with a little bit of TLC and common sense the room could be vastly improved. Just scrape back the projecting grout, put a bit more in where required, clean and reglaze the diabolical window, carefully bead some fresh sanitary silicone to the wall/ceiling and floor/wall junctions, remove the labels off the sanitary ware, clean behind the toilet, clean the window, and repaint it if it is timber (I have not checked to see), remove the grout splashes from the door ... and so on ... then give the room a proper clean.

None of this is incurring much expense nor time. So why not do it? The important thing here is to make the bathroom pleasant to use and think of the tenant. Here I sense OP falls short by a country mile.

Of course the extract vent is a bodge - but if it works the low cost answer is to leave it in place. Looking at the state of the soffits and render and it is apparent this poor standard of the extract matches the rest perfectly. Indeed, altering it now may cause/risk damaging the render. Certainly there is no Requirement for an extract so one cannot be over harsh about condemning it.