Cowboy Builder - What can you do?

ninja9000

Had some work done on my bathroom and the chap ended up causing a lot of damage to my living room ceiling and his work was substandard and I had to get a fair bit redone.
Long story short, he agreed to repay me some money, but has since made excuses and stopped responsding at all.
I got a CCJ against him, but doing a search yesterday I discover he has 4 other CCJs in the last year, for what I bet are the same sort of things.
I dont suppose i'll get money back,, but I am concerned he will carry on ripping people off, what can be done to put s stop to him?

Doozergirl

All you can do is spread the word and teach people how to do due diligence.

Where did you find him?

ninja9000

mybuilder.com website,

He had good feedback and to be fair seemed a decent enough bloke, it all went sour after he damaged my ceiling. So far I am several hundred out of pocket with still more to come.

Doozergirl

I take it you've left a review there, then?

ninja9000

Yes I left a suitable review. Is it OK to make a web site documenting what has happened and directly naming him and his company as well as the fact he has a ton of CCJs outstanding?
I am also thinking of doing a leaflet drop to thousands of houses in thre surrounding area letting people know not to use him.

Doozergirl

That's effort!

If it's factual, I think you can. I've never done it!

Is there a local facebook group? The one for our town has about 12,000 members.

teneighty

If he has multiple CCJ's I assume he has no assets such as a house or vehicles so is effectively immune from prosecution.

Might be worth reporting him to Trading Standards as probably only a criminal prosecution will stop him.

Mybuilder.com.........what a surprise!

EachPenny

ninja9000 wrote: »

Yes I left a suitable review. Is it OK to make a web site documenting what has happened and directly naming him and his company as well as the fact he has a ton of CCJs outstanding?
I am also thinking of doing a leaflet drop to thousands of houses in thre surrounding area letting people know not to use him.

Before doing so you ought to get some advice, or at least do some research, on the point at which reasonably informing others might tip over into harassment. Some police forces are not sure themselves and might respond to a complaint even if what you are doing is on the right side of the law.

System

I am really hoping someone can help!

Block paving nightmare... Please help

Evening all.

I don't even know where to start

My partner and I have wanted our drive block paved for about 4 years. Its the last big smjob we have to do to our home. We have just had our first born so money is not what it was for now. We saw a few houses that had their drives done and they looked lovely. I thought about getting a quote but decided to leave it. However when we got home they had pushed a leaflet through the door (clearly telling the us our drive needed help) so I phoned for a quote. The chap came round and said £6k but if we had it done in the next few days £5k. He went off and we decided we just couldn't do it so I sent a message thanking him and told him once circumstances change (maternity ended) then I would be in touch. He sent a message back to say he would look at the price and we did not have to pay straight away. I said 5hats very kind of you but we aren't the sort to not pay for work, and understand as a business man he will have bills etc. Next thing he is at the door saying look I really want this job. Basically our house is on the corner so an awful lot of traffic goes by so he said he knows it will get him more work. He said £4,200 which was awfully tempting. We would need to do a 0% credit card money transfer so we said depending if we could get it we would go for it. We managed to get £4k exactly so I told him this and he said well I will have to do it for that then. I said you don't have to do anything. He said no don't worry I will. So here we are. Yesterday they came and dug most of the drive up and laid hardcore down. My partner would be doing this job himself had he have the time as he is an engineer and more than capable. He was worried about the lack of hardcore and the steepness that they had created at the bottom of the drive which had been filled with tarmac. I was getting anxious so I sent him a text asking him if we could speak as my partner had some concerns. Our cars are really low at the front and there is no way they are going to clear what they have done to get on to the drive. He called and my partner spoke to him. He basically said we were doing nothing but questioning him and that we should leave him to get on with it. He said shall I leave it as it is and you pay me for what I've done. I'm in such a state over this. So tonight my partner tried to get the car on the front part of the drive and the bottom of the car scraped it. How the heck do we approach this guy? What are our rights? To make matters worse once he started the work he told us he was a traveller but does a first class job. He looks the part, speaks it. We even went to people's houses across town to find out what they thought of him and were they happy with the work he had done. So we did research but they don't advertiwe the fact they are travellers. The work he has done on others is lovely. But he has just turned really unapproachable. I'm worried he is going to just leave it as it is and make us pay for it. What do we do? Please help

Aylesbury_Duck

Lottie_1987 wrote: »

I am really hoping someone can help!

Block paving nightmare... Please help

Stick to one thread. Spamming multiple sections of the forum in the hope you'll get an answer you want to hear isn't helpful.