Before taking up a building job, the builder agreed to a 30% retainer to be paid on completion, it was 30% because we didn;t know him so it may have been a little high but he agreed to it. So far he has been a pain in the ass. Alway disappearing on other jobs and our job has over run by 3 weeks, twice as long as it should have done.
Now he is saying to me he's ran out of money and he needs me to pay him some of the retainer now so he can pay for materials other wise the job cannot continue. If he was a trust worthy guy I would probably have done it but this guy has constantly lied to me.
However I would have he's only achieved 50% of the work done so far. How do i approach this. I don't want it to get messy where we get solicitors involved and I don't want to pay him anymore money because that would make me so uncomfortable.
Any advice on this stalemate?
Now he is saying to me he's ran out of money and he needs me to pay him some of the retainer now so he can pay for materials other wise the job cannot continue. If he was a trust worthy guy I would probably have done it but this guy has constantly lied to me.
However I would have he's only achieved 50% of the work done so far. How do i approach this. I don't want it to get messy where we get solicitors involved and I don't want to pay him anymore money because that would make me so uncomfortable.
Any advice on this stalemate?
