We hired Sean for a block driveway, garden wall and brick pillar. The driveway started sinking after a week, the edges are very uneven, big gaps in places, we have areas of pooling water, uneven cuts, blocks too high and blocks too low and the joints not finished properly. It needs to be taken up, re-sanded and relaid.
The pillar needs to be ripped down and rebuilt because the workmanship is so POOR. 20mm increase in joint size over a 2m pillar. Mortar all over the bricks. It is so unsightly, it embarrasses me.
The wall is OK but not the work of a bricklayer (as we were told Sean was)in places the mortar is very weak and can be rubbed out easily. Different colours of mortar means that the wall looks patchy. Sean did not clean the wall after finishing and there are areas where the joints are huge and finished very poorly.
The whole job was left incomplete, we had to get rid of all Seans rubbish, he did not come back to finish off anything. Edges left unfinished, the area was meant to be leveled and finished with a membrane which we paid for. This was not done and we have to do it and pay again for the membrane.
We arranged for Sean to come back and discuss a solution yesterday but he did not turn up and no call to let us know he was not coming. Now we can not contact him.
Unfortunately our only option now is to take Sean to County Court to sue for the costs of putting right all the problems.