Started a day late with 1 man instead of the agreed 2.
Quality of work was dire - poor cutting in and no masking resulted in blue wall paint on skirting boards, window sills, ceiling, kitchen tiles and light switch and satinwood paint on door handle & window frames.
Despite using groundsheets, managed to get paint on various items of furniture, including two bookcases and a desk, plus 6 splatter of paint on my carpet, kitchen counter tops & more (including a bootprint of blue paint) on the kitchen floor.
Most notably, he put an entire bookcase back up against the still-wet woodwork, resulting in books getting paint on their covers.
On the "finished" living room walls, ceiling and woodwork there are patchy areas where little to no paint had been applied and the edges of the walls and ceilings consist in many places of only smears of paint with the original colour loudly screaming through.
All this was on the first (and only) day of work - I called a halt to the contract after that, once it became evident that the room he had managed to "paint" couldn't be fixed by a bit of touching up but would need to be entirely redone from scratch. And that it would take a day's work on my part just to clean up the various paint spills and marks.