To want to name and shame this builder

[CokeFan]

So... we're having our (useless) garage converted into a room by a local builder. He's done about a week and a half's work on it so far and as it's an integral garage he's got a front door and garage key.

This afternoon I returned home at about 4pm to find he'd already gone for the day and left the front door key in the door!!!

Our driveway is only slightly longer than a car so it was really obvious from the road.

What would you do?

[PixiNanny]

He sounds like a muppet really, but then again, he's only human!

My Dad's a builder too, would be pretty jealous at the 4pm finish (rather than the 9pm finishes he has atm!)

[annh]

I think you're being unfair. Surely we've all left keys in the door at some stage or other? With regards to leaving at 4 p.m., perhaps he'd come to the end of a piece of work and it just didn't make sense to start something new that day? Perhaps he was waiting for plaster to dry or tiles to set and couldn't do anything more until morning? If this is your only issue with him so far, I think you need to chill - or read some of the real horror stories about builders on here!

[CokeFan]

Why does anyone think he left at 4pm? I never said that! I said I arrived home at 4pm and I knew he'd gone for the day because everything was boarded up.

Also, why would anyone think that was a problem?

There's no plaster or tiles yet - it's all been demolition type bits so far.

The problem is that he left our keys in the front door and left for the day. It was done in a way that was very obvious from the road and then he didn't admit to it until challenged (48 hours later).

[Stayingsunnygirl]

Annh - yes, most of us may well have left our keys in the door at some time - I have. But this builder didn't leave his own keys in his own front door, he left someone else's keys in their front door - surely that is more reprehensible.

If you are entrusted with someone else's keys, you should be consciously very careful with them, in my opinion, and this builder wasn't.

[CokeFan]

Exactly Stayingsunnygirl - that's what I was (incompetently) trying to say.

(and I meant 24 hours, not 48 - I can't count)