Extensions

Builder hasn’t come in months.

Anonymous user 16 March 2024 - 3.31 PM

Hello, I’m making this post to seek for some advice. I have been constantly chasing up with my builder in order to ask for when he will continue our work, he took £4500 on the day to break the wall and claimed he’d come the next week. (June 2023) He did not show up. After multiple messages and 3 months later, he says he did not show up because we didn’t pay the full amount according to an agreement of £6000 each time he starts a new part of the project. He ASKED for £4500 on the day and we simply gave him the money he wanted. We said we understand and then sent him £1500 (September 2023) which he said doing so would make him come, the full £6000 now being paid. He did not show up. After texts back and forward, in which he tells us that his builder is off, personal issues and etc he continues to lead us on saying that he needs 2/3 weeks. We understand and wait, however every time the 3rd week is up and we decided to chase up to see if he’ll be coming, he requests for another 2/3 weeks again and again leading us all the way to February 2024. We have approached him on Instagram before when he doesn’t respond to our messages or calls but he blocks every account we make. We ask for dates in case he plans to come in the near future rather than bang on the next week and he still does not give a date but instead the same old request of 2/3 weeks showing that he isn’t possibly committed to our job. We’re getting tired of waiting and he claims he isn’t a runner and actually has taken all the money for work that has been done but the extension has not been finished at all. We have another builder on the side waiting for us to give him the job and we’re worried that our builder won’t come at all and we’ll lose the guy on the side too.