[Closed] Etiqette for getting rid of a "Carpenter"

stevied - Member

Does he only work 'rainy days and Mondays'?

Sorry, but that's ****ing funny.

ou didn't say if you had paid him anything already. Assuming he said I'll do the works for £1800 and you said yes then you have a contract. He hasn't done the work yet so unless you agreed payment terms I would say you don't owe him anything. He would need 'reasonable time' to do the work and only a judge would decide what that was. The works are everything not most of it.

Er, you don't need a judge to work out that "quantum meruit" would be Karen Carpenter's pretty swift response to that.

Have a heart. He's given you ten days at £40 a day.
The price was always too cheap. A lesson learned for you both.

a) whose fault is that?
b) what about the other fifteen days he's pissed into the wind?

If it was a mate doing a favour I'd totally agree. Hiring the services of a "professional" not so much.

a) whose fault is that?
b) what about the other fifteen days he's pissed into the wind?

If it was a mate doing a favour I'd totally agree. Hiring the services of a "professional" not so much.

As project says, the OP has had plenty of time to spot he's not a "professional" and do something about it.
One could argue it is his fault for not being on top of things.

If his name's Karen offer him a bacon sarnie....

Is his work good or would you look down on his creations?

Has he nearly finished the job or only just begun? I mean did he start the job long ago or only yesterday?

I'd be completely becontree mad (two stops past barking), take a leaf out of my book and give him the chop.

Wood that it were so simple...

It sounds as if the 'carpenter' took the job on not realising what exactly it entailed. Sounds like a new guy trying to get into the trade.
Have a word with the fella that recommended him; things may become a little clearer.

He has given you double the time he and you expected; I'd put it down to experience, and pay him the agreed amount ... none of you win, but atleast there would be no hard feelings if you ever met again somehow.

A case of warped expectations; he's trying to branch out and you're barely coping with the growth period?

Just tell him he's a plank.

How do you know the doors are "wrongful" ? Do they swing a bit too far in one direction ??

edit: shakers got there first.

How do you know the doors are "wrongful" ? Do they swing a bit too far in one direction ??

They don't Close to You. 🙂

😆 bravo!

edit, should have left that in wordnumb, made me chuckle.

This hinges on the standard of the work and how you handle it. Tell him he's being a knob and he's in the frame for Rogues Gallery on Watchdog.