Kitchen fitting-Payment

[MotherOfRatios]

Hi
currently having my kitchen fitted and not sure how to go about this the kitchen fitter has been a pain in the arse in terms of his conduct, the electrician made some mistakes which means that the electrician has to move some things and the up stands couldn't go on before as planned originally because sockets have to move, therefore the kitchen fitter has to come back as opposed to finishing everything off yesterday, and then been paid.

I'm been billed for a days work that he's got to come back (annoying but fine) and he has suggested paying 80% and the rest when he comes back and does it but with how little is left to finish I'm nervous. Stop paying him that I'm amount of money means he won't come back and then I'm going to have to find someone else to finish the kitchen off. Whereas my electrician has done 80% of the jobs and he won't get paid until end of the week when the job is completed as he said no money until the job is completed and done.

Is 80% a lot to pay when he's still got half a days work to come back to? Any tips for how to assert myself if it should be less as a woman living by myself I am quite nervous about this kind of thing.

So he just has to fit upstands?

Hes not going to lose 20% of his payment just to not fit something thats a quick easy job.

Even if he did surely for the 20% you didn't pay could easily get a handy man to come do it.

No he's got half a days work to do on multiple things

How many days work has he done so far, are you happy with his work so far?

I doubt he’d forego 20% of the money for the sake of half a day’s work.

It’s not his fault the job is running late. He should be getting his payment at the expected time.

Which is on completion

I don't know I've had builders do it to me in the past and then lost £40k because I paid 80%

1.5 days and no there's lots of snags and rushed mistakes

Kitchen fitters wanted 70% up front 6 years ago with our kitchen. They finished all the work and we paid the remaining 30%.

So negotiate with him offering a certain percentage, but listing your snags so he knows what you are not happy with. If you feel he has done 75% of the job offer that. Clearly he feels he has done 80% of the work at this point, but you disagree you need to let him know that and what the issues are.

We paid our kitchen fitter in full, after he had done most of the job - although he had to come back and change the cooker hood, which had a scratch on it.

We paid our builder every week, for the work done and materials delivered, although we had a contract with stage payments. DH said small firms can’t afford to fund big jobs. His father was a builder.

I did this - 80%. He eventually came back for the day’s worth of work that was needed to finish off, but took his sweet time and didn’t bother levelling all of the doors and drawers. I’m going to have to get someone in at some point to finish off, if anyone will actually see it as worthwhile. Pay 50% and the rest on total completion.