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What about the other grand?!

To be quite honest the fact that he's happy to pay the rest is a good sign, I wouldn't and don't think anybody should ask for 100% before the job is complete.

What I think is a lot of the time customers are very wary and sometimes quite rightly so and all it takes is 1 muppet who thinks they know better but actually knows sweet FA to put a doubt in their mind, by the looks of things this has been dealt with the customers mind has been put at ease and the other bloke looks like a fool, so don't play into his hands and turn yourself into the muppet.
 
Just got a Facebook message from the chippie on the job (funnily enough the only other decent tradesman on the job, got on with him well!). Says the 'plumber' and the 'builder' (who is also a massive bellend, by the way, and also works for the customers company....) have been slagging me off all day saying my work is bad. Obviously it doesn't matter too much now as customer is clearly satisfied, but still.

The reason i've asked for this 4k is that I believe there is a very real risk of my work being sabotaged in that property by either of these 2 men. At least if that happens I have all my materials covered. That's my thinking.
 

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