Paying to replace a damaged bollard

AdrianC

Mercdriver said:

AdrianC said:

The property owner is under zero obligation to do anybody any favours.

No, of course not, but they are under full obligation to mitigate their costs by either doing multiple quotes or allowing the OP to provide reasonable receipted and warranted repair quotations.  

No, they really aren't.

If you don't like their settlement offer, give them your insurance details.

Grumpy_chap

The victim is not under obligation to get multiple quotes, but is under an obligation to act reasonably.

If that is using the original contractor who did the install to do the repair, that is acting reasonably, no need to get multiple quotes when relying on a trusted contractor.

The victim has a price of £280 for new bollard plus installation.  £70 for the new bollard plus £210 install.
The cost of the bollard is the cost.
£210 might vary between one contractor and the next but, really, the cost of these small jobs is the cost to turn up.  At such a low value, no reason at all to waste time getting multiple quotes if the victim chooses not to.

If the OP wishes the victim to get multiple quotes, will the OP reimburse the victim for their time spent to get the multiple quotes at £50 per hour?  On top of whatever the cost then comes out to.

DoaM

The victim is not entitled to the cost of a new bollard ... that wasn't what was damaged (unless it had literally only been installed for, say, less than a month). She's only entitled to the cost of making good what was damaged to put her back into the same position had the incident not occurred. Taking the OP at face value then the bollard appeared not to be damaged, but it is possible that such damage may not be apparent. As such I accept that replacing the bollard may be necessary, but she's not entitled to the full cost of a new bollard - that's not how the law works.

Robbo66

Folding bollards can be had for as little as £40 and up to £100, the majority of what I could find were of the 2 bolt type and the more expensive ones were telescopic types, obviously without a picture very difficult to guess a cost. But lets be generous here and say like for like replacement is £100 I would very much argue the labour cost for fitting was £180. These do tend to be bolted down using heavy duty Rawl bolts of the expanding type so if all it took was a small bump as relayed by the OP then it wast very well installed in the 1st place. I personally think the OPs offer of £140 to be quite reasonable as anyone with a big drill and set of spanners can fit them.

The_Rainmaker

If I was the woman I would be asking for the drivers insurance details by now if an agreement hadn't been reached.

Jenni_D

This thread was brought back from the dead by a spammer whose post has been nuked, so you're responding to year-old posts.

AdrianC

Marvel1 said:

I wouldn't pay anything and hand over my car insurance details.

...a year later...