Advice on this maddening situation please.
TLDR: how do I get this guy to take his stuff? Aibu to chuck it onto the pavement?
Husband, kids and I have recently moved house. We want a fair amount of plumbing work done - new boiler, new tank, underfloor heating, new radiators. Our builder (who we have worked with a lot) recommended a plumber he'd worked with - Greg. Greg turned up to quote promptly. His quote was high - like, Pimlico Plumbers high - but he said he was available to start very soon and we had a reference for him so we were happy to pay. We did the preparatory works needed and then… nothing.
On the day he was due to start Greg messaged or rang to say that a particular pipe he needed wasn’t available yet, so he’d be with us the next day. Odd, given that we’d bought in a raft of stuff according to his spec, but I guess feasible. He’d also dropped off a van-load of tools. The next day he rang again to say he’d been in an accident with his van so was spending the day sorting that. Then two more similar delays. By this point I’m quite sure that he’s not the world’s unluckiest plumber - he’s stalling us. After another week of this we write to him and tell him that we won’t be working with him as we’ve found someone more able to work to our schedule, and point out that his stuff is still here and he needs to collect it.
“Ok” he replies.
Three weeks pass, nothing. I write to him again. We had the exchange below. No sign of him.
What now? I’d like to send a message to say that it’ll all be on the pavement Monday at 8am if he still hasn’t collected. WIBU?
To be clear I’m talking about power tools, radiator flushing equipment etc - tools of the trade. The guy we’ve ended up hiring can’t understand why anyone would leave it lying around like this. It’s apparently valuable.
What now?