It’s very difficult op. I’ve had 3 buidling jobs on my property in last 5 years, as it’s a money sink crap house, and builders/electricians behaviour these days is piss taking bizarre
and you’re right, trades these days will either not show up and not tell you, dragging job out for weeks or months or tell you you’re unreasonable and walk off without completing project. Favoured trick for those on staged payments, wait till you’ve got 90% of money, construct an abusive argument, so customer says don’t darker doorstep and they walk off happily with 30% of jobbstill to do. Or try to. So, you end up walking on egg shells around issues, and allowing them to get away with it - especially if like me you’re a single middle aged woman,
so I’ve had builders that had dog in van, let out to dump in my garden without consent. Seemed surprised when I objected. Said they’d done it before and I’d not compa,Ines. That’s because I’d not been there to see them do this. Luckily a sub contractor so told contractor to tell him to keep dog in van, or better leave it with a dog sitter
bulders that didn’t clean the house of debris attend of job and refused to come to do it, meaning I had to purchase PPE and equipment myself to do it just to get carpets down .
scaffold and skips left on property for weeks
debris strewn about the lawn - including rubble that still, 3 years later, buggers up my lawn mower.
Pissing in outside drain directly outside kitchen without using hose pipe and in full view 🤢 of my lovely elderly neighbour. Even when there was porta loo - when challenged he said it was dirty.
electrician who would turn up with face like thunder, then if you made mistake of asking if everything was ok, spent next 30 mins bending your ear about state of his marriage and what a bitch his wife was. Or same electrician who had misfortune of running over his phone with his car, braking down in his car, having a bump in his car all within 2 weeks as beingcreaosn he wasn’t their actually working. Or another electrician with random mate who came in and just chatted . I asked if he was Electrican or beigng paid to work, nope, just here keeping my mate company 🤦🏼♀️
Oh, god, I could go on
bottom line, if it was me I’d say lightly, with slight laugh “I’m surprised your insurance and work place regs are covered for your daughter working on site at her age? Does she do that often? “ to let him know you’ve clocked, have concners, and are thinking about legal situation. Don’t answer anything he says, just hmmm.. and walk away …hopefully he’ll pick up vibes you’re monitoring. Otherwise just leave it. If you say anything direct to him as your main contractor, you do risk him deciding he’ll work on something else over school holidays and stop appearing at your, until daughter goes back to school.