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I had a lawn mowing company knock on my door and quoted me to trim and clean my front yard (quite overgrown) for £60. I usually don't accept the offers of door knocks but it was much needed work at a similar price I pay my usualy contact for this (he is usually quite busy) and it was convienent. My wife is the one who answered the door and the guy gave her his number to pass on to me.
I contacted the guy and two days later his father shows up to carry out the job. After an hour the father says he is done - I have a look and I'm quite shocked, it is so poorly done. I asked him to clean up the sides and he does it barely. He said he was done - I really didn't want any confrontation so I paid him (was going to tip but quickly changed to the agreed amount).
I expected him to at least clean up - lots of grass clippings left on the neighbours drive and a lot of the clippings hid the extent of how much was done. There was still a lot of mowing left, including weed growing out the concrete (it really is disguised by the clippings). I regret paying and not having properly checked.
I contacted the original guy via whatsapp business and he said he would speak to his father. In my message, I said
"Hey, your father came and did my lawn earlier I believe.
I have to be honest and say it's quite a poor job, quite shocking really but I paid because I wanted to avoid confrontation.
But you can see it's left in quite a bad state, honestly looks a bit worse. There was grass left all over the place including my neighbors drive which I had to go clean up.
I usually pay a guy £70 who cleans it up properly, gets all the weed growing out between the concrete and takes away the cuttings also. I've not done so lately because I've been very preoccupied (my wife you spoke to has stage 4 lung cancer) and I took you up on your offer since you knocked."
He said the price did not include clean up which I disagree (and even then, he left it all over the neighbours drive - I have a video of me cleaning it up shortly through my video doorbell).
After further delays of non reply, I said I would take court action if their is no resolution. He has now come back to me saying to take it to court.
It's not much money but I really dislike what he's done here and I'm sure he's done it to others.
I am concerned that my payment meant acceptance of the job. Do I have a chance here? I have pictures and videos of the way it was left - it's not a complete job, it's a complete mess.
I had a lawn mowing company knock on my door and quoted me to trim and clean my front yard (quite overgrown) for £60. I usually don't accept the offers of door knocks but it was much needed work at a similar price I pay my usualy contact for this (he is usually quite busy) and it was convienent. My wife is the one who answered the door and the guy gave her his number to pass on to me.
I contacted the guy and two days later his father shows up to carry out the job. After an hour the father says he is done - I have a look and I'm quite shocked, it is so poorly done. I asked him to clean up the sides and he does it barely. He said he was done - I really didn't want any confrontation so I paid him (was going to tip but quickly changed to the agreed amount).
I expected him to at least clean up - lots of grass clippings left on the neighbours drive and a lot of the clippings hid the extent of how much was done. There was still a lot of mowing left, including weed growing out the concrete (it really is disguised by the clippings). I regret paying and not having properly checked.
I contacted the original guy via whatsapp business and he said he would speak to his father. In my message, I said
"Hey, your father came and did my lawn earlier I believe.
I have to be honest and say it's quite a poor job, quite shocking really but I paid because I wanted to avoid confrontation.
But you can see it's left in quite a bad state, honestly looks a bit worse. There was grass left all over the place including my neighbors drive which I had to go clean up.
I usually pay a guy £70 who cleans it up properly, gets all the weed growing out between the concrete and takes away the cuttings also. I've not done so lately because I've been very preoccupied (my wife you spoke to has stage 4 lung cancer) and I took you up on your offer since you knocked."
He said the price did not include clean up which I disagree (and even then, he left it all over the neighbours drive - I have a video of me cleaning it up shortly through my video doorbell).
After further delays of non reply, I said I would take court action if their is no resolution. He has now come back to me saying to take it to court.
It's not much money but I really dislike what he's done here and I'm sure he's done it to others.
I am concerned that my payment meant acceptance of the job. Do I have a chance here? I have pictures and videos of the way it was left - it's not a complete job, it's a complete mess.
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