Tradesperson inviting people into my home

[IvyPlant]

Currently got a tradesperson in to do a job. They quoted me a day rate of 8 days work (which I think will take less time than that, but they're the expert...)

Anyway, that's not my AIBU. I checked my security footage this week and noticed a woman popped round to my house when I was out and tradesperson was working alone in my house. I can only see her walk past my front door to the back garden gate, she knocks and then the feed ends. She's seen leaving 4 hours later. The next day, same thing, except 3 hours.

At present the tradesperson gets here for about 8am and has already stopped working by 3pm. So that's 7 hours of work, fair enough, but 4 (and 3) of them an unknown woman here is (it's not his wife, I did a little social media digging and it's not her).

AIBU if I question him about it next week? He still has 4 days left to finish the job next week and I don't l like the fact there's an unknown and univited person in my house when I'm not there, plus, how much work can he really be doing if his "mate" is there for 4 hours.

He's helping himself to your food? I'm murder the bastard for that.

OP will save the juicy updates for thread 2.

Placemarking 🤣

We need itching powder for the blanket.

Oh my goodness this is a long thread. I hope something exciting happens soon

The man could close the door.

Oh my goodness this is a long thread. I hope something exciting happens soon

Oh my goodness this is a long thread. I hope something exciting happens soon

Is anyone else really pissed off by the multiple duplicate posts on this thread? It's 800+ posts because most of them say the same thing 🙃

Doors are for keeping things in, keeping things out, and for privacy. He was alone, and unaware he was being recorded. There was no reason for him to think closing the door was necessary at that time. If he knew he was being watched, he likely would have closed the door.

Jesus christ, I can only imagine the amount of customers without the benefit of cameras, blissfully unaware that these types of shenanigans are happening in their home 🤮

@BadNomad you're talking wet. The cameras are pointing at op's own garden and home, no laws are being broken 🙄

Omg I’ll never leave a tradesperson in my home again

gosh oP you need to sack him! phone round tomorrow for another sparky and get rid of him!!

I would also add up his day fee that he has been there, divide it, take off the hours she has been there - what an awful breech of trust!

Many years ago I had decorators in to do some work, my Ex was friends with one of them and he had an apprentice with him. My ex came home at lunchtime to find his friend drunk upstairs (to be fair we knew he was a recovering alcoholic) and his apprentice was having sex on the armchair in the lounge. They left pretty quickly and we didn't pay for the work they had done. This was in the 1980s when cameras werent so commonplace, he was just unlucky my ex popped home for lunch to see how they were getting on

There's a lot of duplicates but a lot more people have wasted space by writing "placemarking" instead of using the buttons to watch the thread or bookmarking. If it fills up OP, please create a second one to let us know how this plays out.

The cameras are inside her house, with at least one overlooking a toilet/bathroom, with the aim to record a person inside* her house, without* his knowledge. Of course that's not legal.

The cameras are inside her house, with at least one overlooking a toilet/bathroom, with the aim to record a person inside* her house, without* his knowledge. Of course that's not legal.

Clearing so important I had to say it twice. Oops.

Tradesman’s don’t like finishing off other peoples work incase shoddy and then having their good name linked to someone possible bad work

Tradesman’s don’t like finishing off other peoples work incase shoddy and then having their good name linked to someone possible bad work

I think I'm alone on this thread in finding it baffling you are happy to let him continue to sully your property, and film him doing it, rather than sack him. They might actually have recourse against you for filming them without their consent, seeing as you've now placed hidden cameras without their knowledge. Because you're not taking action and just filming them day after day, it could be considered voyeurism.

It's not overlooking the toilet, it's overlooking my back door which just so happens to be near the downstairs toilet. When the toilet door is open, it doesn't show anything other than the boiler cupboard. But you can quite clearly hear the toilet being flushed and see him exiting straight after without the taps running.

I'm certainly not breaking the law (criminal or civil) and as the footage is only for my eyes, I'm not breaking any distribution laws either.

Pray tell, where did you practice law?

Jesus OP I'd be fuming. He doesn't know what's about to hit him. Deffo get the job finished first - good luck