This is my first posting on this forum. I am a regular but a name changer. Sorry if this is a bit long.
We are having extensive building works on our house. The builders have been on site for several months now and we have a couple of months left to completion. We have been living in the house throughout and I am present most days.
When we came home from our annual holiday, we noticed that a few things had gone missing. Some were our own tools, such as a spirit level, which we can put down to someone borrowing and not putting back. However, someone had been into my husband's tool box and a full box of drilling bits had gone. More worrying, a couple of bottles of expensive after shave had disappeared. We have just noticed that several bottles of booze have gone (they were stored in the garage), including a full litre of scotch and an expensive unopened bottle of brandy. Other bottles are missing too, but I don't know what they were, just that the box of booze was packed tightly, and now there are gaps. The top has gone from a bottle of port. Okay, we are not talking about hundreds of pounds, but we are now anxious that we have a thief in the house, especially as I have quite a bit of work coming up, which means I shall be out of the house more.
Our problem is that there have been scores of guys in the house over the past few months, as the builder sub-contracts most of the work. We are confident that the two guys who are on site most of the time have had nothing to do with the thefts. One arrived after we noticed things were missing and the other relies on lifts to and from work and could hardly smuggle a bottle of scotch under his coat. In any event, both are really nice guys and I couldn't believe it of them.
A further complication is one of the skilled guys who is on site quite a bit is someone we found ourselves through Checkatrade.
My husband wants to talk to the builder (who is very rarely on site himself) and to the guy we set on, about the thefts, but am I being unreasonable to want to stay quiet, at least until the work is finished? If I were an innocent person working in a house and the owner mentioned something like this, I would feel very uncomfortable and wouldn't want to be there. The house is in complete chaos at the moment and I just want it finished. If the guy we set on takes offence and pulls out, we will need to find someone to take over from where he left off. It's all more than I can bear.
Has anyone out there been in a similar situation, from the householder or builder sides?