You just bought a new car as part of your two-part life plan. I’ve been saving for years, researching every car on the market and testing 16! I was full of a four-wheel drive family truck. It cost £ 26,000. It came with free service for 4 years and taxable for a year. Read and read all of the paperwork attached to the rental agreement. All you have to do is make sure against any form of accident, theft etc, for £ 330 and get it away. Fast-forward 12 months to Part 2 of your life plan. The car is amazing, it is just what you want it to be and it will never let you down. You are so glad you took your time and put a lot of time into research. You are now ready to add two rooms to your home. You spent £ 800 on an architect, £ 206 on planning permission for your extension and £ 427.50 to get building regulations approval for your plans. You can contact 3 builders. I stumbled upon two of them in the local newspaper, and one picked up her card from the bulletin board of the local store. They are all nice guys. Number two, Jack, stand out though. What a lovable man! He almost made you cry when I tell you about the nurses’ lodge they just finished building and how happy he was doing something to help our amazing care workers. And it’s not registered for VAT, so you’ll save 20%! He got the job I spent the week sorting cash to save money and he came Friday to get his £ 10,000 deposit. He said it would start the next Monday. The plan was just beginning to come, and then it all started unraveling. The men arrived on the first day and the truck driver knocked on the gate pole. It wasn’t so bad as accidents happened, they said they’d rebuild it eventually, and then the overrun appeared. She didn’t even think about skipping and now she’s driving, the car has to be parked on the road. How long did Jack say all of this would last? I wished I had asked some more questions. You had time to say hello and “help yourself with tea or coffee” before you rushed to work. Excited to see the results of the first day I landed home. The garage door is wide open and the kitchen is a mess! Nothing appears to have been done and no one is around. Better to call Jack, no one can apologize for more. He said he couldn’t pull the garage out as planned because it was still full of stuff. When I told him that you asked him to throw things in the jump into the paper you put in the envelope with the cash, he said he hasn’t opened the money yet … sorry. When the boys called to say the garage was telling them to move to the other job and they should have left without closing the garage door. More apologies. Well, it’s now sorted. Let’s go. In 5 weeks or so it’s going to be over, Jack said, the next few days will go well and you can see things progress but it doesn’t seem like there is more than one person on the job when you get home or leave late for work. Jack says he’s got two jobs on the go and that the boys are pulling back and forth between them to catch up after two weeks of elusive weather. Looks ok. Things will speed up soon. Sometimes it was obvious that there was no one at all and its really hard to get a jack these days, after two weeks the garage stopped but nothing else happened. I arranged a meeting with Jack who canceled him at the last minute but in the end (after 3 days) he arrived looking like he saw a ghost. During these three days, you raised your concerns to your friends, and in a nice way, obviously. Because there is nothing to worry about, but no less than that you would like to get his opinion because there is just a simple grumble. It turns out that Jack had crashed his truck and was written off. He had to buy another one and let him have a shortage of money for the materials. Can you make the next payment please? Alarm bells are ringing now. what should be done? Sorry Jack, I wasn’t expecting to pay any more until we laid the floor and with a look still out of the way and I have to give notice to the bank of a major withdrawal. Feel a little scared. It suggests that you go to merchants and pay the balance yourself. He says they will not accept your money because it is his account, and he has to pay it himself. Something is just wrong, something is so wrong we can just hope this hasn’t happened to you. However, the truth is that it has happened, and continues to happen, to 100,000 people per year (consumer rights expert .co.uk). The good news is that finding your builder is a cowboy should never happen and working with any builder any big job, without a contract, is insane, your house is very precious, however, as we can see from the true story (or part of it) above, We spend more effort finding the right vehicle than we do the right to build. Where do you start? Well Doctor DIY of course we’ve been working for many years providing a solution to this cowboy problem. We have now published a technical document on how this solution works for you. The white paper can be used with our contract – the contract for building the desired outcome – and together these two documents will keep you safe. For added security, you can search for dealers at the DIY Doctor Find a Tradesman Page and before your build comes in to get when you do an interview, you can get an idea of the approximate price for the work you want from our Price Doctor. Your home is your castle but without the proper defense, it’s surprisingly easy how these smart fraudsters can breach your defenses. If you get any work done and your time is short, please, at least read:
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