First of all, thanks for taking to the time to reply.
The bit about "he never pursued the matter before now"
Sending an invoice standard post - is that official enough for him to say he has began pursuing the debt. He's had no acknowledgement that we received the invoice in the first place. If he sent it registered post, and we signed for it, fair enough. Or would that not stick with the judge.
The problem with all of this, is that it has all been done word of mouth.
We never signed anything, and neither did he. the only peice of paper we ever saw was a piece of paper with a figure for direct labour for the shell of the house and then an alternative figure if we wanted him to take on the full construction as a contractor.
Is word of mouth just as strong in court as a proper signed and sealed contract. Can I not just turn round in court and say he quoted us 36K not 46K? I know i'm being crafty and underhand, but in this case, with the amount of stress he caused us, I don't care.
thanks again
Actually i'd even send him half the original agreed balance and write a long note indicating your dissatisfaction over the length of time it took to complete his work. See where it gets you. Its worth a try.
Good luck
he quoted 46K PUNT ......He finished up March 2001 and we paid him up to that point 36K punt.....I received a standard posted envelope, from the builder, with an A5 letter-headed invoice, with scribbled on it “€26K incl. Interest, please pay me my money!”.
My wife got a piece of land off her dad - so we built a house on it.
We did direct labour. We did the plans ourselves and the foundations.
The builder was in charge of doing the shell of the house (walls, stone cladding, roof) – he quoted 46K PUNT, this was back in 1998 and we accepted.
This quote was written on a general receipt book with only our names, description as ‘2 storey house (walls, stone cladding & roof)’. We had no official contracts or any formal written communication.
He took 3 YEARS to actually finish his work.
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