We are completing a flat renovation. Our electrician, who's a subcontractor to our builder, initally was pretty good, but started not showing up on a few days, then was gone for a week. Then started showing up again.
But recently, he no showed again for a week which, since we are near the end of it, really delayed the move-in.
So we had to bring someone else in else we'd be burning $$ like mad on rent.
How the problem is this - this guy is threatening to report us to the council for bringing someone else in and certifying on the work.
But obviously, we do not want this guy to ever set foot in our flat so have zero plans to bring him back to certify/complete his work. He's also doing a bunch of other things - charging us for things that he says were "extras" and claiming to send invoice after invoice for stupid things. And all the while, we do not have a contract w/ him - our builder does - and he's refusing to talk to our builder bc I think he's afraid of our builder. haha.
So the question is this - has anyone dealt w/ something like this? We want to do things properly so will pay for someone else to come in and certify our place for building control purposes - but is it true this can't be done by anyone else but the original electrician?? I can't imagine us being the only ppl this has happened to. And I will not hold my breath as I think based on his behavior, he is capable of reporting to the council just to wreck our lives.
What are my options??
Thank you so much mummies!~