I hate my builder

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That is all. I just really really needed to share that as I proceed to spend another night in the fucking place we were fucking meant to have fucking moved out of in December all because new house renov still is not fucking finished. All because the fucking builder continues to fucking lie about everything and anything. Mr I'll have it done for you tomorrow nessus is nothing more than a bullshitting shit eating fucking liar. And if he offers up 'weather' as an excuse one more fucking time I will scream because it has been fucking dry here all weekend and if he could have been bothered to check forecast in advance he would have known this.

I can't believe I thought he was all my prayers answered back in October. I cringe at every recollected recommendation I offered up about him.

Fucking fuck fuck fucking fuck.

Take a look at citizens advice website -
www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/consumer_e/consumer_builders_and_home_improvements_e/consumer_problems_with_poor_quality_work_e/consumer_building_work_is_taking_too_long_e/building_work_is_taking_too_long.htm. For those looking for builders for a big project make sure you get three quotes and think about having a formal agreement written up with payment schedules (fortnightly is good) with money paid only for value of work completed to date.

I know it's been a while since Anyone posted on here but I feel so much better having read some of these comments as I also hate my lazy lying stupid condescending twat of a so called builder he has let me down At every stage of the works even caused me more hassle by putting a hole in a lead pipe which apparently is almost impossible to do and also has the brass neck at every stage to blame me and my husband for anything that goes wrong. I hate the fat bastard with a passion

My Friend was ripped off by a builder in Fulham called Theo.
He took the money and immediately said if he didn't get more he would just leave the job. Theo rmt lets is a bully and a fraudster. Do not use his business please fellow mums!

Bumping this old thread too because I hate my builder. He was supposed to do a week's work and complete the project for me last week and I am in a building site that tastes and smells of dust. Yuck. It seems that I have to watch him like a hawk as he'll either go out for "supplies" for four fucking hours and come back empty handed, or put something up wonky/half bodged/upside-fucking-down. And the fucker makes me feel unreasonable for asking him to redo bodged work. If I wanted it to look crap and have an argument about it I'd have got DH or me to do it!

Oh well ...my partner is working in the Law so we always have a proper building contract before any job starts...any single things that could go wrong is covered HOWEVER I am amazed how the builders are able to FUCK UP and FUCKING LIE and always saying BULLSHIT to accommodate their mistake. We always on the right at the end thanks to the contract but it is HARD WORK, you need to be there!!!! Check everything they do... as soon as you go to the loo ... they FUCK UP.
We are again in a middle of an extension project , with a full 4 pages contract, lots of experience, we select between 7 different company / quotes...and still the one we got is able to FUCK UP !!!! I think to be a builder you really need the same mental and logical skills of a manager ... it is not just a manual work as they say. You need to tell the LIERS every thing. I am exhausted ... last argument this morning, I gave him the written notice of termination this time... he is working hard now...and scared! Looking forward to finish off. I understand why people do a lot of DIY..

Can I resurrect this thread . My builder is driving me insane. We employed him in February to do a garage conversion. Unfortunately we were out of the country so here we are in July job still not finished . I am back for the summer living with it but my main concern is I think he thinks I am his cash cow (hubby works in Dubai) I asked him to do some painting (family room, kitchen small bedroom and hall and landing x 2 as we live in a townshouse) plus tiling a kitchen and small splashback next to cloakroom basin. He has so far charged me £2300 and work no where near finished. He is having a laugh isn't he . How far adrift is he. I have told him that maybe if the job was finished plus some electrical work , moving some plugs I may consider paying this but still not sure if this is reasonable . What do you think DH still in Dubai so I have been left handling this and feel they think woman by herself blah blah but must admit no idea how much would be reasonable

So far so good with my builder....Except that he gossips about my messy house. Dread to think what else he says !!

Just spoke to the neighbours they reckon he was here no more than 2 days last week . Cheeky bugger is trying to charge me for 6 days. The mere fact that he would do 6 days consecutively is unbeleiivable in itself but I can see heaps of stuff still not done I have asked him to justify what he did in that time and I am guessing this will be a hard task on the imagination (especially as one of the rooms I think if I had attached a paintbrush to my dogs tail I would have got a better finish)

I would start a new thread as people will be answering the poster at the top from 2014 instead of you.

I note this is an old thread but that Op made me laugh!
I could have written it myself!
I fucking hate my fucking builder too! With a passion I didn't even know I had!
He's a fucking liar too!

Hi. I needed to see that I wasn’t alone in my total loathing for my ‘builder/project manager’!!! AND I’M NOT 👏👏👏👏. Basically to cut a long story short, take everyone’s posting from 2014 and that’s my story as well. I feel so stupid for being so nice at the start! I cooked breakfast sandwiches and endless cups of teas and the banter was good. But as soon as he got most of our money his visits became less frequent and we had to constantly chase him. As soon as we had the nerve to complain, he started to act like a spoilt child and got aggressive. Right from the start little things would niggle us like how he didn’t seem to get the process of our building work in the right order but as the building work was progressing well we just let it go. Once the major work was done then the crap started. Poor handling of everything started. Poor workmanship from some of the sub contractors and then things got worse and worse until we are now having to go down the legal route but only if we can get our insurance to help us. The idiot is now emailing us making up total rubbish obviously to try and show as his evidence incase we do take him to court. Luckily I have old text messages showing his incompetence. He’s a real scum bag as he even used unfortunate circumstances in his wife’s recent life to lie to the customers in order to be let off delays in work!!! I really HATE HIM!! He’s now saying that he’s not returning to do any ‘snags’ (how can they be ‘snags’ when the work hasn’t been done!!) because he claims my husband said he won’t pay him even if he does the work. The fact is he’s been paid for the work he hasn’t completed or done that’s on our quote!! I want the bastard crucified! 😤😤😤😡😡😡

I have also come across lying and defrauding builders ( stole about £500 off my mum by taking money up front and disappearing, that was in the early 80s so a lot of money then). Said his wife had cancer. Year later was up.in court for serial fraud, saying his wife had cancer was his usual tactic.Now I m all grown up and have had to use builders, as soon as they start the " my mums in hospital" "my wife's I'll" I show no sympathy whatsoever. I never pay by the day but by the job. I withold a good chunk and when I wasn't not happy I got the building regs guy from the council to check the loft extension and got the builder back to snag. It's amazing how proactive he became when he wanted his money. Sadly I've come to expect poor workmanship. The only exception for some reason are electricians.

The number of times this thread has been resurrected but here I am feeling like I have had a raw deal with my builder. I need to release my pent up anguish somehow and whilst we haven't been ripped off as such the finish on his work has been horrendous, creating hours of work for my dh to rectify. In addition the builder has had to return to put right some work and always that contract which he refers to with terms like 'make good' this or that - things which should have been better than 'made good' or just okay because they are a fundamental features of the rooms in question. Just need a sounding board really but it is a sad relief that I am not alone.

Room for one more?

I've had no kitchen, zero, nada, zilch, for five months and counting. Partly as walls were taken down and awaiting building regs etc but the actual kitchen fit was due to start a month ago. Builder showed up two weeks ago...for two hours. Then another couple of hours the next day. Didn't co-ordinate the plumber or electrician which is essentially what we paid him to do, otherwise we'd have just done that ourselves, hired the spark/plumber and then him to fit. I've made all the bacon sandwiches, gallons of tea, even proferred them ashtrays and said feel free, be comfortable and happy at your work. But work for fuck sake! He never showed up as promised Thursday or today, finally answers email to say he'll do 'as much as he can' Monday because I threw a fit that the quartz worktop was being fitted Tuesday so sink MUST be in situ. Bastard. I fucking hate him. I told dh tonight, just fire his sorry ass! We can get shot of him, hire a local carpenter to finish things off and do a bit ourselves. Even as I said it in my rage, I knew it was bollocks. I can't even find clean pants it's been so long since I had a washing machine. Today's fetching look is my Christmas jumper. Bastard.

You poor thing.

itwasever, that sounds really bad re. the builder not turning up, sorry you're having such a hard time. I just never (and hopefully will never have to) see our builder again. The Christmas jumper thing made me smile though x

Thanks both, I feel a little better getting that off my chest