Someone acting as my Electrician won't come back

[boxrick]

Hello folks. I'm after a bit of advice, someone I was working with took on the electrics for my house. 

 

They have made it clear by their actions they do not wish to come back and I was left with a mostly first fix house minus a few rooms. I've reduced the scope multiple times and they agreed to this. But are still not coming.

 

I've been waiting 3 months and still had nothing besides infrequent replies and or various reasons why they can't come back. 

 

I mostly paid upfront with a very small outstanding payment for full first and second fix. 

 

I'm now having to get another electrician involved probably going to cost me multiple more thousands to get it all resolved.

 

Any sensible fair recommendations since I dont know what to do. 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by boxrick

[Redbeard]

I am sorry you have had a rough time. I picked up on the words 'acting as my electrician'. Are they one? If it were me I guess I'd be looking at the terms of the original agreement (which might be the 'feel' of it if it was verbal). Did any particular thing precipitate the decline of the relationship? Have they done of not done anything which might be of interest to Trading Standards? Oww! 'Multiple more thousands' sounds painful.

 

I don't know much about the Small Claims Court but is there a clear breach of what you thought they intended to provide?

[Big Jimbo]

One of your problems will be getting any other electrican to sign off work that they did not do. I had this once on a fair sized extension. i explained to the BCO that i could not get a sign off because the bloke had dropped dead. They accepted an EIHR in that case.

[Owain1602]

Did you have a contract of sorts in place with clear scope/deliverables?

Then, did you request any changes/deviations to the deliverables agreed in the original agreement, and were these formally documented?

 

You can work with people/companies in many different ways, but you need to tailor your approach to suit the framework that’s in place.