Opinion on my recent plumbing work plumber experience please

[RGN007]

smtplumbing,

I wouldn't know if the other plumbers considered the pipework, or how they professionally would have responded had they realised they hadn't thought about it. I do know that had my ex husband quoted for a job on a car and hadn't realised something he thought he should have realised, he would not have expected the customer to pay for his mistake or bad judgement.

I do know the plumber had less work than he quoted for in a couple of other areas such as all the tiling didn't come off round the old bath. He only needed to replace 2 tiles that cracked and 2 new tiles where the plaster was exposed because the new bath was shorter. I also paid the delivery company (Victoria Plumb were very efficient) a 2 man delivery to carry the toilet, the vanity and sink and the corner bath upstairs as one of the other plumbers had balked at getting the bath upstairs.

I didn't expect him to deduct anything for doing less, but likewise if he has made an error in judgement I think he should bear part of the mistake, after all, I am left with a damaged new vanity unit with a hole underneath that shows when you open the draw so if he repaired the problem we both have something to lose.

 

[RGN007]

....to tell you the truth I feel quite scared of him. He is not violent or even shouting, but there is something in his manner that is oppressive and makes me feel panicky. Half of me hopes he doesn't turn up tomorrow and I'd just put the £75 of the £575 I have hung onto toward paying someone else, even if it costs me triple. However, I don't feel like the hassle of him thinking he is entitled to the remainder when I still have the old bath in my garden, the bath side cover in my daughter's bedroom and the toilet is only attached by the soil pipe....oh...and of course the unsightly pipes.