It's a bit akward as one of the blokes is a friend/ex colleague of dp's sister and they did her kitchen not perfectly but it looked good they worked hard and they're cheap so she asked if they'd do ours.
It is a cash in hand Job which they quoted us £450 to fit our small kitchen, skim the walls and tile the bit that needed tiling. Now we didn't expect perfection but they said they'd get most of it done in a weekend and it is still nowhere near completed. The walls they are supposed to have skimmed are terrible really rough, patchy in fact in one part they have painted directly over cement without even plastering over the top. The tiles are not flat or straight. They also measured the bottom plinths whilst they were still in their packaging and thus did not tile further enough down so there is a 4 cm gap between where the worktop ends and the tiles begin and we've had to spend £30 buying oak coving to stick over this. The worst thing is is they have left live wires exposed only wrapping the edges slightly with insulation tape but not the ends. They took the light socket off to paint on Saturday but left it hanging off until now and we can't find the screws. Last night they put all the wall cupboards up but after they'd gone dp had to change most of the hinges and realised they had only clipped the hinges onto the door and hadn't screwed each one in.
Dp has had enough he doesn't want them to touch the cooker and Microwave which need putting into a cabinet which again is badly put together and wrongly attached and as DP said if they f*ck that up it's £1000 worth of equipment down the drain. Plus he'd already stopped them from putting the wiring for the hob in the wrong way round.
Dp intended to ring him up today and ask them to get their stuff and tell them we'd finish off and to call it £300 which we thought was fair considering it will cost the difference to get a plasterer in to rectify what they've done and also because the job isn't going to be completed by them. Anyway he rang me up this morning before he had spoke to dp so I had to tell him and he wasn't happy saying £300 was too low it had cost them £80 in materials etc etc.To which I replied that their work was sub standard etc etc. He said they had skimmed the walls but they are in a worse condition than before they touched them, friends have seen them since and can't believe they think it's acceptable, not to mention that on one of the walls they have supposedly skimmed and painted they have after painting them used pollyfiller or something by the side of the window and there's blobs of that all over the wall!
Anyway they are coming round at 6.30 so we can discuss it. Now dp and I are willing to go upto £350 which we think is more than reasonable. What do you reckon?