Help. Builder has run out of money and job is only half done

Furts

teneighty wrote: »

Mowlems used to be a good contractor until Carillion got their money grabbing hands on them. I've worked with both and Carillion were terrible, all they were interested in was winning new public sector contracts that they would not staff properly and then they would try to screw the client for every last penny.

The existing contracts will be bought out by other firms and probably take on Carillion's workforce, they have already sold off a lot of contracts. Hopefully we will see Mowlems re-emerge from the ashes as a traditional major building contractor and avoid these Americanised outsourcing contracts and facilities management.

I suspect BBC news reports that schools, hospitals and railways are at risk is the usual BBC politically motivated hyperbole.

Whether Mowlem was good is debatable. By the mid 1980s corporate greed, (rapid expansion and managers who did not control), corporate stupidity (dodgy house building, rapid expansion, strange land banks) and outright lies (Carlton Gate) took over the company and brought about its' downfall.


An upside was the Mowlem homes were in a different league to the dross being built by Tarmac - later rebranded as Carillion. HSS and SGB were respected names, and London Airport just under developed, done on a budget, starved of money and ahead of its time.


I too worked at Mowlem!

unforeseen

Furts wrote: »

Perhaps not in good taste considering those about to loose their jobs. Anyway just my personal take on this issue. Perhaps your comment is witty - care to broadcast it in any pubs in Wolverhampton?

I work in a building shared with Carillion and our company was glad to break the ties we had with them on contracts a few years ago.

southcoastrgi

Most builders take a deposit & stage payments every 2 weeks hence the cash flow keeps ticking over

cddc

Pay him weekly as he goes for the rest of the job?

Cisco001

1. Estimate the value of the work he already done and paid it.

2. Ask him what is the material require to finish the rest of the work. You purchase it yourself, not via him. And thus, if he go bust, the material are still yours.

3. Ask him to itemized the labour and equipment cost for every stages for the rest of the job. Paid him accordingly when he finish each stage.

littlerock

It sounds to me as if he has taken your money to work off a pre- existing job instead of yours. I would not give him any more money. You could negotiate to pay for his materials direct and then let him charge you for his time, but I doubt he will do much more work particularly if he needs to pay sub contractors. This happened to my sister. She was reminiscing the other day how she got caught out by a kitchen fitter who did just that. She said in retrospect she should have made sure she monitored progress better in return for handing over money. You can do as Cisc001 suggests, but I doubt you will get much work out of him. Sadly.