I am currently in a major dispute with Mark Grimshaw of Hersham/Walton on Thames/Field Common Lane.
It has been stated before in other reviews, he is a ‘smooth operator’ the ultimate salesman who convinced me he could cope and deal with my building project.
The reality is very different and after 11 months of him having men at my house and me having given him vast amounts of money, I been left with a property open to the elements and a myriad of work half finished.
Having now had the work inspected, reported on and documented it is clear the man was totally out of depth on my project and not the ‘big builder’ he has been portraying himself to be.
He has a slick Modus Operandi, and as has been stated before appears to continuously manipulate the truth and lie.
He was paid £10,000 (which is the fraction of the money he was given overall) to employ an architect, but never finalised any drawings before starting building.
He was paid to employ a Structural Engineer, but despite completing some quite complex work, has failed to produce any Structural Drawings.
He was paid to employ a Building Inspector who appears to of signed off work when it has not been completed correctly.
I paid money up front for work that has been completed, but now been deemed incorrect/dangerous and had to be demolished and is now being re-built by a proper builder.
Yes, I should of read all the reviews on Mr Grimshaw and his various companies that I have now seen.
Yes, I should of ‘fact checked’ 100% of everything that came out of this mans mouth.
In my opinion, he is plain a clearly not a successful businessman and proficient builder.
I have only ever known him as ‘Mark from Surrey Lofts’, I did not know what Ltd company was behind Mark from Surrey Lofts – he asked me to pay some money to Surrey Developments Walton Ltd and other monies to him and his son personally.
He produced plans for me with ‘Surrey Lofts’ on the bottom and he had ‘Surrey Lofts’ vans trucks delivering materials to my house that had been taken from other building sites and his warehouse.
He met with me in his ‘Surrey Lofts’ Office and his men wore ‘Surrey Lofts’ branded clothing. His sign on the fence of my house was advertising ‘Surrey Lofts’, the email address he used to send us emails from was “Mark Grimshaw [email protected]” and when external drivers delivered materials to our property, or the building inspector attended or architect met with us – everyone stated that they had been asked to attend by ‘Mark from Surrey Lofts’.
I was therefore shocked one day last month when Mark Grimshaw stated that he had sold Surrey Lofts and was now going on his own.
We always believed Mark Grimshaw and Surrey Developments Ltd was trading as Surrey Lofts.
We were not aware that Surrey Lofts (Weybridge) Ltd was put into liquidation by Mr Grimshaw in 2019 and had been dissolved in 2022.
We also were not aware that Mr Grimshaw had sold the assets of Surrey Lofts Group Ltd to Surrey Lofts (Walton) Ltd and he placed Surrey Lofts Group Ltd into liquidation and sold Surrey Lofts (Walton) Ltd to someone who has worked for him on and off for a number of years.
We were not aware that we had been trading with just Surrey Developments (Walton) Ltd that is apparently nothing to do with Surrey Lofts.
Mr Grimshaw appears to still be working with his son out of the same Industrial Unit he was using as Surrey Lofts and driving the same Truck the Surrey Lofts Driver used to use.
When I started to challenge Mr Grimshaw on the massive inconsistent facts, he reported me to the local police for ‘Harassment’ and I was told to back off by the police – having done absolutely nothing wrong other than paid this man and his son plenty of money for work that has not been done to my house and also, we now know, lots of work done very badly.
Clearly, a man who knows the system !
We are now pursuing him through the courts, because despite him appointing a solicitor - they have now stopped responding to the very clear and obvious damming evidence of incompetence
they have been sent.
I suspect there is a lot more to come out about this man and his various companies, so if you have also had a poor experience in dealing with Mark Grimshaw and don’t wish to write a review in the public domain and don’t know who to turn to - please do send your complaints or concerns with work he has done for you to [email protected] and I will collate the information and pass it to my solicitor to review for us all.
