Painters mess

sirbidders

Hey guys, not sure if anyone here has had a similar issue? We have had painters in the last couple of days (internal) while we have been at work. The painter has finished up now and has left the place destroyed in dust. :mad: When I say the whole place I mean TV's, Xbox, Worktops, Couches. EVERYTHING except the floor which he saw fit to clean (well attempt to). Being reasonable I would have expected some dirt and dust but this is ridiculous. It seems that none of our valuables had been covered during the work. If I had realised this was the case it would have been easier to do the work myself. I had already gone to the effort of clearing the walls of paintings and suitably stacked all equipment/furnitue in a fashion which would have been easy to cover for him. Is it the painters responsibility to prevent this kind of mess, or mine for not covering them myself? Was I wrong to think the professional painter would have covered the items? To be honest I would have thought the movement of household items would have been his job but was foolishly trying to be nice I did this myself. Very annoyed. More work in the cleaning now than there was in painting the place!! :eek:

sirbidders

Apologies, this ended up being posted in the wrong forum accidentally. New to this and unsure how delete/move to correct forum?!?!?

TheBody

sirbidders wrote: »

Apologies, this ended up being posted in the wrong forum accidentally. New to this and unsure how delete/move to correct forum?!?!?

Send a private message to one of the forum moderators and they will move it for you.

MugMugs

Or just report your post.

The painter should be covered for Public liability. Document the damage and intimate a claim against him

sirbidders

Cheers for the tip on the moving of the post! No real damage done per say just every object in the house covered in dust. Would this come under public liability?

TheBody

Take pictures of the mess before you clean it up.

MugMugs

sirbidders wrote: »

Cheers for the tip on the moving of the post! No real damage done per say just every object in the house covered in dust. Would this come under public liability?

Yes in essence. Public Liability can be extended to cover associated risks with trade like a painter causing "damage" whereas a scaffolder would be more likely to cause "injury" and a plumber would probably cause more damage from leaks that a scaffolder dropping poles on peoples heads. If he's not insured, you can still go after him only it's a bit more ruthless and would involve potentially liquefying the company assets through a court.


The one concern could be that his Insurer refutes his claim down to outright negligence.

Document the damage.

Call the painter and try and get it sorted with him directly.

If that doesn't work

Get a good Solicitor onto him and have them intimate a claim for loss against him. He'll get onto his insurer upon receipt of their letter most likely.

pdiddy

have you paid him for the work yet. If not you could ring him and tell him your not paying full price because of the mess also make sure to take plenty of pictures of the mess.

Any half decent tradesman will cover all personal items and make sure to leave things as they were before the job started.

There was no excuse for not covering your items especially when all the hard work was done for them by you gathering them into a neat pile.

biko

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