Hi all
Am on my last-letter-before-small-claims-proceedings with a trader & just thought I'd ask around in here. Not as to whether I have a case, just a couple of points where any personal rather than legal advice welcome -
Will change details of job in question to protect the guilty
Let's say I had a wall built, botched job, trader very resistant to refunding. (There are reasons I ended up hiring bodgers but too long a story).
All the trader has offered is rectify (can't be done, to a decent standard) or a 'good price' to redo it along with another length of wall that I did intend to have done at some point, not necessarily now. No chance of my going for that.
So, no offer to discount, no offer to replace, in short, only to do something where he won't essentially be out of pocket. Also was slow to respond to complaint, unapologetic, grudging admission of issues, & attitude to boot.
As the job is inarguably poor I don't have qualms about my case as such. There is one other option open whereby we could avoid court, which is to let him repay part of the cost in lieu by doing a separate, simple job (that I believe him to be capable of). Don't touch compromises with a bargepole/open a can of worms in your opinion, or avoid small claims wherever possible? I have no experience personally, this is my first/hopefully last slip-up in the hire an idiot dept.![]()


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- all the signs were that he was not a bodger, who knows, I just got lucky and I'm 'the one'. (There are a few factors I won't go into that may explain some of it).
I don't know how far they would back loss of faith as good reason to not want him back under any circs to do any remedial work.


