We receive a quote from the above builder re a brick wall we wanted building.
After we accepted the quote a date was giving to us when he would start work. He insisted we pay cash no cheques and also a deposit of £500 .
He came dug the foundation preparing for the wall. He took deposit money and said he would be back after weekend to finish work. Well the weather changed and we had constant rain for a while so we accepted the fact we would have to wait. The weeks went by we still didnt hear anything. we constantly phoned him sometimes he would ignore the call if he knew it was our number. When we did mange to speak to him he said he was behind with his work due to weather conditions which we accepted, we had a long dry spell still no work was being done. He was ignoring our calls. We managed to get hold of him via a mobile number he said he was having problems with the supplier of bricks and would be in touch, weeks went by again he ignored our calls. We received a text saying he had managed to get bricks but was going on holiday and gave us a definite date to start. The date arrived no one turned up all communication at this stage was done by text he was ignoring all our calls. When we text him asking where he was he text back wondering was we was on about! 17.00 hours that day we received a text saying he wasn't doing the work telling us to get someone else he hasn't got time to build the wall. When i asked him about our deposit he said he would give us back some of it not all. Which we thought was fair considering he had actually done some work. We never received any money back he said he posted it which i thought was a strange thing to do as he was actually working on our estate and he had to drive past my road to get to his next job! We have had three different builders out to try and get a wall and they have all said the
same thing the work that was done is not adequate and is going to cost us more to put the work right. we don't normally write reviews on line but feel we needed to to stop this happening to anyone else. We personally think he under priced the job and realized he would not make any money on the job. But hey we are reasonable people and if he had just come and told us we would have paid the extra.
