My 87 year old father-in-law lives in Scotland and has agreed to some work to be done on his house. The quote is below. It is a 2 bedroom, 2 floor detached house. No scaffolding is involved. The amount seems very high and would like some feedback. At least some questions to query the quote. Unfortunately, he has already paid the deposit. We have searched companies house and located the builder and he is not listed as a trusted trader in Scotland. Reviews are mostly on his site and found a few negative reviews on a FB scammer group. I believe my Father in law has 10days to ask for his money returned but before we do that, we want to check on the maths. He did not get 3 quotes. Any help is very much appreciated.
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Quote for a new guttering and fixing of facia
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dont know what scotland is like and if any access issues
seems high to me , but when i had this done on a bunglow was just before covid and prices have gone up since then
£8,000 is a lot of deposit
BUT how likely are you going to get the money back anyway - how did he pay , Credit Card, Debit card , cash, cheque , bank transfer
what price were the other 2 quotes ? and what was quoted
if a forum says £1000 and some one else says 20,000 who can you trust (noone knows really - but you may get a rough idea if members are in the same area and do that sort of work) when they have NOT seen the work
2 storey and no scaffold , I thought when i had work done years ago on a 2 story house scaffolding was required now
we had other work done on the roof, but that and replacing all the soffits, faciars , all guttering , felt support trays, new felt (as roof was comming off 8-10 tiles back for oter job) , downpipes (we had 4 ) and also fixing any rottern joist ends (which we found and paid as they found them) - under £3,000
no access isues - we had 4 quotes , some just wanted to put pvc over the rotten facias , this was remove and replace and clear all rubbish
we also had a lot of other work at the same on the roof, insulation, and a warm flat roof installed
The quotes were spring 2017
seems high to me , but when i had this done on a bunglow was just before covid and prices have gone up since then
£8,000 is a lot of deposit
BUT how likely are you going to get the money back anyway - how did he pay , Credit Card, Debit card , cash, cheque , bank transfer
what price were the other 2 quotes ? and what was quoted
if a forum says £1000 and some one else says 20,000 who can you trust (noone knows really - but you may get a rough idea if members are in the same area and do that sort of work) when they have NOT seen the work
2 storey and no scaffold , I thought when i had work done years ago on a 2 story house scaffolding was required now
we had other work done on the roof, but that and replacing all the soffits, faciars , all guttering , felt support trays, new felt (as roof was comming off 8-10 tiles back for oter job) , downpipes (we had 4 ) and also fixing any rottern joist ends (which we found and paid as they found them) - under £3,000
no access isues - we had 4 quotes , some just wanted to put pvc over the rotten facias , this was remove and replace and clear all rubbish
we also had a lot of other work at the same on the roof, insulation, and a warm flat roof installed
The quotes were spring 2017
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Seems very high to me but I am only DIY but they have said strip back to trusts -- a term I am not used too
They also say they are only stripping out rotten wood facia and just replacing those sections with more wood then they are going to cap that and the rest of the remaining wood. So they are not replacing the facia and soffit at all. No felt support trays - nothing - sounds like a rip off to me.
They also say they are only stripping out rotten wood facia and just replacing those sections with more wood then they are going to cap that and the rest of the remaining wood. So they are not replacing the facia and soffit at all. No felt support trays - nothing - sounds like a rip off to me.
That's a a price for whole new roof with tiles and felt isn’t it not just over boarding.
Claim the money back asap and start again, £12k is a lot of money for that.
Andy
Andy
Get the money back if you can, if not contact Trading Standards as a matter of urgency, before the company disappears with the money. That quote, on the face of it, is a complete rip-off, for the work involved.
The deposit alone is twice what I woulld have thought the job should cost.
Are they pik-keys? Wouldn’t trust anyone who can’t spell .Doubt you will see them or the deposit again.
Say goodbye to the £8000...
