I'm having a new kitchen put in and have got all the trades separately after failing to get one company to do it all. I've just had the builders in. Meant to be for three days but they brought it forward one day and spent 1 1/2 days on it. I asked them to rip out the kitchen and open up the chimney breast to fit a new oven. I explained the electrician, gas and plasterer are coming after they've done (next week).
Yesterday afternoon (the second day) I asked one of the labourers if they'll need another day or so and he made a face as if to say possibly a bit longer/not sure.
Then the boss came to pick them up, lots of commotion, lots of running around and then they told me it's finished! I explained I couldn't pay in cash until the day after as banks had closed. I've checked the work and it looks half done! Appliances that I told them we didn't want are still there and electric cooker wired in, they've left a temporary lintel in, not even taken all the plaster of the chimney, hooks from cupboards still in, tea station of a cupboard door on top of old cooker still there!
He said he'll get the skip taken away today but we're gonna need another skip to finish it by the looks of things, the skip is only quarter full at the moment. I'm paying 1.500 and I feel completely mugged by what they've done!
They're coming today to check the stuff I've mentioned but he's really coming to get the money, I'm on my own as partner has been away and I'm worried that he's gonna talk me into giving him full payment and tell me I'm wrong to expect it to be ready for plasterer. Can post photos if necessary just want someone to say who's right/wrong in this situation.