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cash before job completed?

  • 27-07-2007 3:48pm
    #1
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭


    A tradesman on my site is looking for over half of the price he quoted, before the job is finished,

    granted he has done about 4 weeks work and has about a week left. i am paying for all materials, it just labour


    just wondering will he vanish after he gets paid, or is this normal practice


Comments

  • #2
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,555 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    First of all both of you should have had the payment schedule established prior to commencing works. But in any event I dont think its unreasonable for him to look for some payment now as you have described


  • #3
    Zynks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭Zynks


    I agree that the request sounds fair (provided you are happy with the standard of work so far). Considering that he has made about 80% of the work (4 out of 5 weeks) and is asking for 50-60% of the overall cost, the risk of him vanishing seems low. It would be a good idea to agree now how the rest will be paid, including all outstanding issues being cleared before final payment.


  • #4
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    thanks for the replys

    its a cash job so there is nothing on paper about it, just a quote at the start

    his work is a1, thats why i was worried he might have more work lined up, but yeah, why would he leave when he is still owed money, its just the other tradesmen didnt ask for a penny until everything was finished


  • #5
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Isn't the norm a third on starting, a third when halfway through and a third on completion?

    Mind you, Irish builders have become such gods that they could ask anything, and regularly added in extras at the end.

    The last job I had done - with which I was satisfied - I asked the builder to quote separately for a bunch of different things. Instead, he gave me back my typed table with a single price written in, explaining "I just bundled them all together".

    Fine, but I'm not asking him to quote on the next job I have to do - purely because of this. I've been told about a Polish builder who's said to be good, straight, professional....


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