Bit of a rant first to explain the situation:-
Effing builders again, I knew there was a reason we hardly ever work for them. We've done a few jobs for one particular builder and we were on strict payment terms with him, basically if he didn't pay what was owed on the Friday then we wouldn't be back in on Monday, and this worked quite well for a while. But it isn't just the money, its his demeanour as well, he speaks like a robot constantly quoting things like due diligence, moving forward etc. Originally he is an office boy and he thought it would be easy doing the jobs he's seen from his office window because after all the thicko tradies will be easy to run rings round right?
Anyway he tried to tie us up in knots again regarding invoices, apparently he priced the job labour only and now wants me to sit down and go though every invoice and itemise price wise what we have supplied, this is going back over about six months worth of invoices. At the end of the day if I had office staff I could allocate the time to do such nonsense as this for a price but I simply haven't got time for stuff like this and all I hear for the 100th+ time is "cant you just help us out this once". This is as well as demanding that we turn up at a moments notice and prioritise him. Anyway my mate had had just that little bit too much hassle off him recently and in no uncertain terms told him to go forth and multiply so to speak.
As the actual customer seemed fine we explained the situation to them and said look if you want the job finishing (its 99% done) then you need to pay the outstanding amount of £600, maybe knock it off what you owe the builder and we will come back and put the last few switches on and sign the job off. I've already got all the test results needed to issue the cert but I will only do that once its 100% complete (and paid).
So where do we stand with this, I don't care where the £600 comes from but nothing on this earth will get me to sit at a PC and type a cert out/sign the job off unless the money is in our bank. Apparently the builder told the customer that he would get someone else in to finish the job off if necessary. I would love that as I would definitely be vindictive if someone else signed the job off, I know you can check if NIC jobs are signed off but how do you check the NAPIT side of things?
Really the moral is - don't work for builders, I've never worked for one that hasn't tried to do us over in one way or another. I wouldn't mind but this joker is 10% of our work load but 80% of the hassle we get.
Effing builders again, I knew there was a reason we hardly ever work for them. We've done a few jobs for one particular builder and we were on strict payment terms with him, basically if he didn't pay what was owed on the Friday then we wouldn't be back in on Monday, and this worked quite well for a while. But it isn't just the money, its his demeanour as well, he speaks like a robot constantly quoting things like due diligence, moving forward etc. Originally he is an office boy and he thought it would be easy doing the jobs he's seen from his office window because after all the thicko tradies will be easy to run rings round right?
Anyway he tried to tie us up in knots again regarding invoices, apparently he priced the job labour only and now wants me to sit down and go though every invoice and itemise price wise what we have supplied, this is going back over about six months worth of invoices. At the end of the day if I had office staff I could allocate the time to do such nonsense as this for a price but I simply haven't got time for stuff like this and all I hear for the 100th+ time is "cant you just help us out this once". This is as well as demanding that we turn up at a moments notice and prioritise him. Anyway my mate had had just that little bit too much hassle off him recently and in no uncertain terms told him to go forth and multiply so to speak.
As the actual customer seemed fine we explained the situation to them and said look if you want the job finishing (its 99% done) then you need to pay the outstanding amount of £600, maybe knock it off what you owe the builder and we will come back and put the last few switches on and sign the job off. I've already got all the test results needed to issue the cert but I will only do that once its 100% complete (and paid).
So where do we stand with this, I don't care where the £600 comes from but nothing on this earth will get me to sit at a PC and type a cert out/sign the job off unless the money is in our bank. Apparently the builder told the customer that he would get someone else in to finish the job off if necessary. I would love that as I would definitely be vindictive if someone else signed the job off, I know you can check if NIC jobs are signed off but how do you check the NAPIT side of things?
Really the moral is - don't work for builders, I've never worked for one that hasn't tried to do us over in one way or another. I wouldn't mind but this joker is 10% of our work load but 80% of the hassle we get.
