JCT Homeowner surprise quotes

Jetski5822

Hey All,

First time poster here!

So - I have had a bunch of renovation work done to my house and signed a JCT Homeowner agreement before the work started, this included payment break downs etc.

About 4 months in to the work, I get a email from the building company with around 18k pounds of additional quotes for additional work they had done, work I had not agreed to.

This was a fixed price contract.

I did ask them to quote me for some additional work, and I accepted those quotes, got the invoice and paid them, all according to the JCT.
But in terms of the work that was done that was not quoted for, what should I do? Im tempted to tell them that I own them what it says in the JCT.

Thoughts?
Nick

TELLIT01

If the builder has genuinely done unauthorised work, then it would seem you have every right to refuse to pay. What was this unauthorised work which cost £18k?

Clive_Woody

Jetski5822 wrote: »

Hey All,

First time poster here!

So - I have had a bunch of renovation work done to my house and signed a JCT Homeowner agreement before the work started, this included payment break downs etc.

About 4 months in to the work, I get a email from the building company with around 18k pounds of additional quotes for additional work they had done, work I had not agreed to.

This was a fixed price contract.

I did ask them to quote me for some additional work, and I accepted those quotes, got the invoice and paid them, all according to the JCT.
But in terms of the work that was done that was not quoted for, what should I do? Im tempted to tell them that I own them what it says in the JCT.

Thoughts?
Nick

That's quite a chunk of extra work. Were you unaware that this work had been done to your house before the invoice arrived?

Jetski5822

There are about 15 quotes all for various things;

2 of them, around 7k worth which was the bathroom upstrairs and little toilet downstairs. The bathroom upstrairs I got a quote through for but had not agreed to it as alot of the measurments and pricing was wrong (Still is). In the mean time, because there was no toilet in the house but a portaloo outside, they then installed a toilet under the stairs to get rid of the portaloo. The understairs toilet was then quoted to me, 4 months after the work had been done.

They created an understairs cupboard and then charged me 1.2k for it, I never even asked for it. Theres also alot of little bits like, replacing a broken drain cover, underfloor vents, some additional plastering and insulation, all of which i never agreed to and they just did and quoted months and months after the work has been done. Im too annoyed to go through all of them;

All of this and the project manager who worked for them got fired.

18k was with VAT in it so i exaggerated a bit.

When I think I might do... is agree a price for the 2 bathrooms, then say, the rest is on your head for work you did without authorization based on the contract I have with you. But I assume they will want to take it to arbitration if that happens.

Not sure