Sacking the kitchen fitter - how much?

Clive_Woody

I would be presenting him with a bill for the damage caused when you fire him. As mentioned take photos and keep records of what he has done (and re-done) in case he tries to claim from you later.

Clive_Woody

Doozergirl wrote: »

All this can be avoided with some due diligence.

Where did you find him?

Normally your posts on here are helpful, informative, educational and well balanced, but unless you have access to a time machine that's not really going to help the OP at all.

Doozergirl

Clive_Woody wrote: »

Normally your posts on here are helpful, informative, educational and well balanced, but unless you have access to a time machine that's not really going to help the OP at all.

You're right, it doesn't help the OP at all but I can't personally help the OP because I'm not going to offer advice on a situation I've not really been in, I know very little about consumer rights, but I might just be able to help someone else in a more proactive way. They've got themselves into a position that no one needs to be in if they *check their tradesmen properly by seeing their work and actually speaking to previous customers*. Not enough people do that.

We've had another post this week who also did their due diligence by reading a review website. It went wrong. We had another person who asked for guidance before they employed a builder and it went unanswered for 24 hours. I answered with some ideas and one person followed up with a bit more but it's not really enough.

The person in the OPs house sounds like they have zero experience and the OP thinks they did due diligence, but they didn't, because this is happening and they have someone not just a bit lacking in finesse, but completely incompetent.

I keep doing this because there are others reading who could be at risk of getting into the same situation. There is a huge instance of things going wrong where people think due diligence is reading an anonymous website that the 'tradesperson' pays to be a member of.

Physically check references or at least take a proper recommendation from a trusted friend. Amongst other things. I've mentioned this week that we need a sticky about hiring people. The same problems rear their heads over and again.

Clive_Woody

Doozergirl wrote: »

You're right, it doesn't help the OP at all but I can't personally help the OP because I'm not going to offer advice on a situation I've not really been in, I know very little about consumer rights, but I might just be able to help someone else in a more proactive way. They've got themselves into a position that no one needs to be in if they *check their tradesmen properly by seeing their work and actually speaking to previous customers*. Not enough people do that.

We've had another post this week who also did their due diligence by reading a review website. It went wrong. We had another person who asked for guidance before they employed a builder and it went unanswered for 24 hours. I answered with some ideas and one person followed up with a bit more but it's not really enough.

The person in the OPs house sounds like they have zero experience and the OP thinks they did due diligence, but they didn't, because this is happening and they have someone not just a bit lacking in finesse, but completely incompetent.

I keep doing this because there are others reading who could be at risk of getting into the same situation. There is a huge instance of things going wrong where people think due diligence is reading an anonymous website that the 'tradesperson' pays to be a member of.

Physically check references or at least take a proper recommendation from a trusted friend. Amongst other things. I've mentioned this week that we need a sticky about hiring people. The same problems rear their heads over and again.

A very fair point, but your first post simply said "All this can be avoided with some due diligence" - which comes across as patronising as there was no suggestion in the post on what the appropriate due diligence could have been and for the OP it was clearly too late.

The clarification you provided above is great for those venturing into the world of taking on a contractor to do work around their home and I agree completely that a sticky would be great as maybe it could avoid others having similar issues and encourage them to check references and see some real work that has been done previously.

Too many folk are now overly reliant on the internet as a reliable source of information....and maybe far too trusting of what they find on the internet.

Doozergirl

Clive_Woody wrote: »

A very fair point, but your first post simply said "All this can be avoided with some due diligence"

No it didn't.

I also asked a question so that advice could be tailored. I don't ask questions act I don't want answering in order to gain more information to offer relevant replies. I don't enjoy just randomly spouting misdirected advice or having to list everything I know just because there's some information missing. I wanted to know where they found them so I could elaborate. I had not taken that opportunity as I was otherwise occupied with a friend, Sunday dinner and a bottle of Shiraz! Some of my posts are shrifter than others, but it's not like me to ask a question and not return to answer, unless someone else has already done it.

Probably didn't need to defend myself.

-taff

Well, checked and vetted say they mediate if there's a problem, so, let them earn their money.