Anybody had any experience of having to sack a plumber off the job for incompetence?
I have an ongoing job that will never progress to completion; the plumber comes to fix one problem and causes two more. He has never refused to come back but 2 years down the line everybody’s patience is running thin!
He is still owed money but I have zero faith in his abilities to complete the job satisfactorily.
Basic faults like the plastic f&e tank is not fully supported, timbers holding the large domestic cold water tank bowing alarmingly, lack of control on the wood burning stove, electric wires hanging lose, live feeds running along earth cables, leaks from oil tank contaminating soil, pushfit overflow pipes becoming disconnected, no soakaway for condensate overflow to name but a few... The list goes on and on. As I pick up on the faults, yes, he comes back and fixes them (to a degree) but I am not prepared to do his snagging lists any more, all I want is a safe system that works, complies with all the regulations, as per the specifications of the quote.
Where do I stand if I refuse to let him come back any more? He has already threatened to take us to court if we refuse to let him back to fix the faults and withhold payment. Ideally I would like to sack him, employ a proper heating engineer to assess the work and charge him for someone else to put it all right. Does that sound reasonable?
Alternatively I am prepared to let him take me to court and counter-sue him for fixing this bodge job...
I have an ongoing job that will never progress to completion; the plumber comes to fix one problem and causes two more. He has never refused to come back but 2 years down the line everybody’s patience is running thin!
He is still owed money but I have zero faith in his abilities to complete the job satisfactorily.
Basic faults like the plastic f&e tank is not fully supported, timbers holding the large domestic cold water tank bowing alarmingly, lack of control on the wood burning stove, electric wires hanging lose, live feeds running along earth cables, leaks from oil tank contaminating soil, pushfit overflow pipes becoming disconnected, no soakaway for condensate overflow to name but a few... The list goes on and on. As I pick up on the faults, yes, he comes back and fixes them (to a degree) but I am not prepared to do his snagging lists any more, all I want is a safe system that works, complies with all the regulations, as per the specifications of the quote.
Where do I stand if I refuse to let him come back any more? He has already threatened to take us to court if we refuse to let him back to fix the faults and withhold payment. Ideally I would like to sack him, employ a proper heating engineer to assess the work and charge him for someone else to put it all right. Does that sound reasonable?
Alternatively I am prepared to let him take me to court and counter-sue him for fixing this bodge job...