DaveBowden
Senior Member
- Location
- St Petersburg FL
Situation:
Home remodel. Customer wants high end solid brass wallplates. Builder says get them here so we won't have any delays at trim out ( that ws in February). Purchase materials - $2600 - deliver to job, Hide in locked (after hours- open during the day) garage. Invoice builder and get paid for items. Can't install plates because painter isn't finished. Builder's laborer cleans garage and puts plates right in front of door for everyone driving down the alley to see. Plates disappear. Builder's superintendant says order new ones we'll pay for them. Buy replacements - $1400- invoice builder. 2 weeks later go to builder's office and ask if they got the invoice. Secretary digs thru job folder and finds it filed away already. I'm not happy.
My question is do you agree with me that the builder is responsible for the cost of the replacements?
Forgot to mention one of the builder's laborers was sentenced to 15 years in prison for dealing in stolen property while he was on probation a few weeks after plates disappeared. The builder had fired him for falsifying his timecard about a week before the plates vanished.
Home remodel. Customer wants high end solid brass wallplates. Builder says get them here so we won't have any delays at trim out ( that ws in February). Purchase materials - $2600 - deliver to job, Hide in locked (after hours- open during the day) garage. Invoice builder and get paid for items. Can't install plates because painter isn't finished. Builder's laborer cleans garage and puts plates right in front of door for everyone driving down the alley to see. Plates disappear. Builder's superintendant says order new ones we'll pay for them. Buy replacements - $1400- invoice builder. 2 weeks later go to builder's office and ask if they got the invoice. Secretary digs thru job folder and finds it filed away already. I'm not happy.
My question is do you agree with me that the builder is responsible for the cost of the replacements?
Forgot to mention one of the builder's laborers was sentenced to 15 years in prison for dealing in stolen property while he was on probation a few weeks after plates disappeared. The builder had fired him for falsifying his timecard about a week before the plates vanished.