I take it that part of the contract was to power sand all the woodwork in that room
Yep, we had several conversations with him about him taping up the doors to keep dust out of the rooms. We accepted that, with the doors taped up, a little bit of dust would get into the rooms, ie. directly under the door, was unavoidable.
was he allowed and did he clean up the dust in the room that he worked in and were dust sheets used to cover furnishings
He make a token gesture to clean all the dust in the hallway where he was working, but left heavy dust on newel posts and all the usual dust traps like dado rails etc. No one had said he couldn't go in any of the rooms to clean up all the dust. But it would have taken him 6 hours to clean the two bedrooms, given that's how long 2 professional cleaners with all the equipment took Sunday afternoon.
You admit the doors were a bad fit, but appear not to have made any effort to cover soft furnishings and toys in the other rooms,knowing that this sort of job creates a considerable amount of dust.
We had several conversations with him about him taping up the doors to keep dust out of the rooms.
To give you the chain of events. Following the heavy sanding Friday I arrived home to find 2 up stairs bedrooms covered in heavy dust, 2 bathrooms and 2 living rooms (slightly less dusty) - the original post says 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. That's a typeo btw.
My wife, who's staying at the in-laws with our 2 year old as she has fairly bad asthma - ie asthma that prevents her being around any heavy dust!, spoke to him and he said he had cleaned in the rooms, which was BS.
I then cleaned the front living room as I needed to sleep there for the next couple of nights till the cleaners arrived.
When he arrived Saturday morning, I spoke to him about the dust, he was not apologetic. I asked for some masking tape and proceeded to tape up all the doors. He was ****ed off that he would no longer have access to our kettle or the kitchen sink. I suggested he go buy a £10 kettle from Homebase or go around the cafe 3 mins walk away - he said the cafe isn't open on Sunday. To get into and out of the house Saturday, when he was doing more heavy sanding I climbed in and out of the front window - to ensure the door seals stayed intact.
During Saturday's sanding he managed to break some of the seals and didn't bother retaping them. I challenged him about this Sunday at which point he wanted confirmation that he would not be covering any of the cost of the cleaning.
I've got some more details but his c*ntitude but I take it at some point you're going to stop defending or playing devils advocate with this guy?