Chasing Builder for money owed - existing CCJ's

ZBanfield

Dear DFM,

Thank you so much for sharing your success with getting your money back from the builder. I am in a similar position and was advised that I would be unlikely to get any money back even if I get the CCJ judgement. Your story has encouraged me to go ahead and file in the small claims court. I, like you, think it is wrong that any builder can keep doing this to innocent people and getting away with it. He has also done this to my neighbour and they are choosing not to pursue him.
My builder has a limited company but I believe I can pursue him as an individual and Director of the his own company.

Fingers crossed. The paperwork and process looks very daunting, but I will persevere.

Any advice would be appreciated. I am about to send the builder the final letter before action....

ZBanfield

Dear DFM,

Thank you so much for sharing your success with getting your money back from the builder. I am in a similar position and was advised that I would be unlikely to get any money back even if I get the CCJ judgement. Your story has encouraged me to go ahead and file in the small claims court. I, like you, think it is wrong that any builder can keep doing this to innocent people and getting away with it. He has also done this to my neighbour and they are choosing not to pursue him.
My builder has a limited company but I believe I can pursue him as an individual and Director of the his own company.

Fingers crossed. The paperwork and process looks very daunting, but I will persevere.

Any advice would be appreciated. I am about to send the builder the final letter before action....

DFM wrote: »

All,

Thank you for your advice.

I think it only fair (after being reminded!) that I post the results of our process.

We went ahead and issued a County County Judgement against him. Something to add to his list of unpaid ones. No surprise really but no response was forthcoming. He ignored it.

There was a period we had to wait after submitting the CCJ to give him time to settle. Once that had passed we moved on to the next stage. We had no real hopes of getting our money back but felt we had a duty to pursue as we didn't want him to think he can keep getting away with ripping people off.

So we issued a "Request for Warrant of Control" and paid extra for the court representative to serve it on him rather than us having to face him and hand it to him.

Surprise, surprise we then received a cheque from the court for payment in full including all the costs we had incurred in chasing him.

I wonder, if of all the people who had submitted CCJ's against him, we were the only ones who decided to move to the next stage.

It worked out well for us but I can't guarantee it would work for others. Just need to try and stop these people thinking they can keep getting away with taking advantage of people.

Good luck to anyone who chooses to go down this route.

Derek