Used a local tradesman to fit a shed base. Always said that we want to put a shed on it, and the quote details that it is a shed base, so no confusion over future use. We got the plastic shed bases that come in squares etc to use with pea shingle. Price was agreed at £1115. Area was 14ftx10ft.
We paid up front around half the value. When he completed the job he sent my husband a photo, assured him it was level and he'd checked it with his 2 metre spirit level and asked for final payment. I came home and could instantly see it wasn't level. I don't have a big spirit level but I got a set of ladders which are straight, and lying them down it was massively obvious that it bulged in the centre. The guy came back to talk it over, I agreed to pay him a bit more (paid over 80% by this point) and he would come back to fix it. He came back yesterday and has made it better than it was, but it still isn't level! I can't lay a shed on it as it is. When laying the ladder down on it, it is raised two inches on one end, so we aren't talking millimetres difference. I owe him £180 but I don't want to pay. I've given him the chance to fix it and he hasn't. Am I obliged to pay him? I think what he has received so far is fair for the work completed. DH hates confrontation and just wants to pay him.