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Discuss Advice needed - poor workmanship? in the Canada Tile Advice area at TilersForums.com.
A word of warning - he could chase you for payment and technically you are or would be in breach of contract. You are 100% right to dispute the work though - it is shockingly bad.
Do you have legal advice as part of your home insurance? Or access to a solicitor?
At the very least, talk to citizen's advice who will give you proper advice so you don't end up HAVING to pay him now, and then go to the massive ache of having to try and reclaim costs from him.
At this point, try to get everything in writing and save all communications in case you need them later on!
To many errors more diy than pro.
Is the extractor low voltage and the circuit on an rcd, as that fan is in zone one. Should have been moved from the shower.
wheres the brick bond gone round the window ....beggars belief that he thinks thats acceptable
Pic No 3......above the toilet
IMO you should write or email original plumber and give him a chance to rectify all areas you are not happy with, wether it be himself or him hiring a tiler to sort. Tell him once this is done and you are happy with standard, payment will be made. Give him an agreed amount of time to rectify and if he has not then you will take in other tradesmen to rectify all works which will be taken off his bill till all works completed to a satisfactory finish. Any monies left over will be forwarded to him and copies of bills to get rectified. If he wants to go to court let him as no chance of him winning and all costs will be him liable. Sub contractors are on him also not you!
Tiling onto a plywood overboarded floor is okay provided it has been fixed correctly minimum thickness of 15mm and of exterior quality, WBP.
With regard to the payment situation. The Law likes to use the term "reasonable" when to comes to payment and withholding money.
You have what appears to be a useable bathroom, not particularly well finished but at least serviceable to a degree.
From a legal standpoint it is important that you are seen to be reasonable should this eventually go legal.
Withholding the entire payment is not reasonable, however making a part payment being accompanied by a snagging list detailing exactly what needs to be rectified is reasonable. Once this work has been completed then the balance is payable.
The percentage is down to you to figure out and I guess would also be effected by the products supplied. i.e. if the suite was supplied by the plumber then it would be unreasonable not to pay for items supplied as you now have the items. However if this is a labour only situation then I'd be inclined to withhold say 50% or so. Taking this position strengthens your case considerably.
I have just got off of the phone with the plumber, he has has received my letter and wanted to discuss how we can move forward. He said he did not want things to get messy and was hoping we could sort things out amicably between us and reach an agreement that is fair.
I then explained that the cost of rectification is most likely going to cost around the same as his final invoice and then we have to buy more tiles as well so we are most definitely going to be out of pocket, I asked him what he thought was fair under those circumstances? After much discussion he has agreed to walk away with nothing and has said he will confirm this in writing as I said that I was not willing to have anything done to the bathroom by someone else until we have reached an agreement officially. I said I wanted to cover my back so that he cannot try and make a claim against me further down the line once the evidence is gone.
To be fair, he was very apologetic and said that he was really sorry for all the inconvenience he has caused. If I do get confirmation from him in writing that he is happy to walk away and "draw a line in the sand" as he put it, then I will consider myself extremely lucky on this occasion and ensure that I am more careful when choosing tradesmen in the future!! I really do hope he is not trying to pull a fast one somehow but surely if I have a letter from him saying he is happy to walk away without payment then that would stand up in court if he did ever try to chase payment from me?
Made up for you hun.I have just got off of the phone with the plumber, he has has received my letter and wanted to discuss how we can move forward. He said he did not want things to get messy and was hoping we could sort things out amicably between us and reach an agreement that is fair.
I then explained that the cost of rectification is most likely going to cost around the same as his final invoice and then we have to buy more tiles as well so we are most definitely going to be out of pocket, I asked him what he thought was fair under those circumstances? After much discussion he has agreed to walk away with nothing and has said he will confirm this in writing as I said that I was not willing to have anything done to the bathroom by someone else until we have reached an agreement officially. I said I wanted to cover my back so that he cannot try and make a claim against me further down the line once the evidence is gone.
To be fair, he was very apologetic and said that he was really sorry for all the inconvenience he has caused. If I do get confirmation from him in writing that he is happy to walk away and "draw a line in the sand" as he put it, then I will consider myself extremely lucky on this occasion and ensure that I am more careful when choosing tradesmen in the future!! I really do hope he is not trying to pull a fast one somehow but surely if I have a letter from him saying he is happy to walk away without payment then that would stand up in court if he did ever try to chase payment from me?
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