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They haven't been delivered, he's brought literally like 20 bricks for the base and that's it. He keeps making excuses for the delivery - He said 2 day ago (when they were supposed to be delivered) that they delivered the wrong bricks (yellow, not red) so that he had to send them back. Then they couldn't get new red ones out to him until Tuesday next week, so he wanted another 800 GBP so he could go buy some urgently from somewhere else. He did said he managed to get some for the next day ("paying for fast track"), and apparently they couldn't fit him in for delivery, so he went and picked up half a pallet in his van (which I am still yet to see...). I got told elsewhere that the footings might be ok.. "if you are having what was there before give or take, footings may well be okif not then trial hole to determine new loadis he going over the existing driveis the new drive concreteif so may be ok"

Hi All, Hopefully this is the correct forum to post in - I have hired a 'builder' to re-do (extend) my existing porch, and driveway, however after being messed around for a couple weeks now (and paying 50% discount) I have a feeling he's dodgy and not even starting properly. (Plus he keeps asking for more money constantly and i've sent maybe 65% now - He said he needed £800 for 1.5 pellet of bricks, is this normal for 3m2 porch?) So far he has taken down the existing porch, and then told me that the foundations are solid so that they will not be doing them and doing them ontop of existing. I don't know much about foundations but it seems very odd to me (and after some reading) that he's literally cut away maybe 1cm from the ground to start laying bricks - Is this normal if the foundations are solid? If he's doing the driveway anyway, shouldn't he just dig the whole lot and then do the porch/foundations? Also just my observation is that if the driveway has cracked/uneven, then doesn't that say something about the foundation? He's literally cut like 2cm or less off the top! See pictures below in order that he's done them (over like 3 days of work, over 2weeks...). I feel like I might have to get a proper builder out to check out the job so far? He's coming back tomorrow to finish laying the base I guess, so I can have someone come in the weekend and look. https://imgur.com/a/q1z1gNt