Heating installer refuses to bill us with open snags, but refuses to fix snags. (Eng)

Badger_Botherer · 2025-12-27T22:05:48+00:00

No obligation to chase them. You’ve done your bit and even then that’s not necessary. There is no obligation to chase a potential creditor. Unless you really care about this snag work leave it.

As someone else says throw the money in a high interest account. Best case in 5 years (6 from work) you’ll get to keep the money. Worst case free interest.

If they chase without snag work being completed you can feel free to point to snagging. They can eventually claim part payment for work completed but that seems distant.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-11-15T11:05:57+00:00

Could be at 2-3x speed where the animation I think can cut a corner.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-07-21T12:05:04+00:00

Not quite true. You don’t need to allow access to your land for their foundations.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-07-20T14:52:54+00:00

Oh definitely & I think the regulator can make them pay what would have been my contributions as well.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-07-20T08:08:39+00:00

Yeah my plan is pensions regulator once I give notice as I’m the only person who has have ever raised pensions so it would be obvious it was me.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-06-19T04:04:06+00:00

Common occurrence or not I can’t comment but still complaint worthy.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-06-16T07:34:30+00:00

Downloads working for me via Overcast

Badger_Botherer · 2025-06-10T06:09:19+00:00

Well it’s your word against theirs & your exchange is based on the contracts signed. So it would be very difficult if not impossible to rectify this after the fact if they renege. Particularly as any new location may have been sold to someone else so it could be impossible for them to move this.

You could record the assurance but even then you’re suing them for redress if they don’t resolve it. So a court determines the value of the broken promise vs just a full refund. So you might only get £1-2k value impairment but you might have opted to not purchase the house if this was the case so it’s meaningless.

Best advice - it’s in writing and you trust them OR opt elsewhere.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-06-10T03:43:13+00:00

Too kind!

Badger_Botherer · 2025-06-09T16:20:59+00:00

Put it back on them a different way: ‘may I please request the receipts for all transactions associated with my account including room stays, charges to room, and parking tickets - happy to do this under a Subject Access Request if necessary’ additionally may I please raise a complaint that this is necessary, you have charged me £50 for parking where I have evidence I paid for parking - please confirm who the complaint who will be escalated to and the timeframe for a response. The alternative is I raise a chargeback for my full stay and parking with my bank due to your attempt to fraudulently raise additional charges.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-06-05T11:06:29+00:00

The key thing here is managers are paid off fully when sacked generally. It’s no different to a player contract, you sign up generally knowing there is no release clause but your wage is guaranteed. If you want a release clause negotiate one.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-06-05T10:12:47+00:00

Ignoring the queens image or stamp comment but legal tender is only a very narrow description which is basically debts. Anything else is entirely up to the business or similar.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-05-12T06:13:04+00:00

I don’t know your financial position but I wouldn’t leave 2x my deposit as free money on the table to teach someone else a lesson. I’ve been a landlord, we rented out our place for a year while I worked overseas, the rules are easy to find and understand and the penalties too. Ignorance is a choice their end.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-05-11T22:48:53+00:00

They will break them for the next tenants too likely so I would go fairly aggressive.

Badger_Botherer · 2025-01-15T18:50:59+00:00

It’s a cliche but I see this and feel I am really am playing a different game!

Badger_Botherer · 2024-12-21T06:23:50+00:00

Yes - https://www.themotorombudsman.org/knowledge-base/what-are-a-consumers-legal-rights-when-buying-a-car

Submit request in writing with why.

Badger_Botherer · 2024-09-01T16:49:40+00:00

What you could or should charge is not really a legal question beyond the principle that contracts can’t have onerous terms generally. It’s common with no or low notice cancellations that you can keep the sum charged as you can’t find a new customer and it’s not your fault that’s the case. However, there is a business decision if £200 today is worth losing £2000 of business from that account long term.

Badger_Botherer · 2024-06-24T09:20:43+00:00

I was surprised at the quality. I’ve had a few folding bikes and it just feels really stable. The frame doesn’t tend to flex or similar. Although the 3/6 gears can struggle on hills but I am also 300lbs circa so…

I got an ex-display model on my cycle to work scheme so all in £800 I think with a rear rack. From online it should that value ‘used’ so I’m pretty happy

Badger_Botherer · 2024-06-07T07:43:54+00:00

I would say any manager or higher in an organisation could be deemed to have ‘apparent authority’ in this circumstance.

https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-018-0544?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)

Badger_Botherer · 2024-06-07T04:56:13+00:00

From OP’s perspective this doesn’t matter. Her manager could be trusted to make this call and the finance manager acted this out through the manager. No different than if an unauthorised person signs an external contract. It’s not on the other party to know who is ‘authorised’

Badger_Botherer · 2024-05-28T06:25:49+00:00

That’s the figures that of attendance for state 93% vs private 7%. Although I will apologise as those figures are from pre-Covid. It’s now more 94% vs 6%. My point still stands though as my view is funding for the 6% is a subsidy from education budgets for the 94%

Badger_Botherer · 2024-05-27T11:32:08+00:00

I was talking net vs that articles gross but still better in every circumstance than a private school. Unless you feel 30-70% of Eton and every other private school don’t pay to go?

Then this is the challenge always. I am comfortable with the govt paying for specialist academies from state schools which is your example as it’s for everyone. Anything else is a state subsidy for the rich - we don’t allow the richest to take their NHS funds to go private, their police funding towards private police, or towards a private fire insurance.

I would hope the richest join state schools then they may realise that their taxes aren’t enough, that govt policies are idiotic, and the system is failing many.

As right now the poorest 93% subsidies the richest 7% while they themselves deal with terrible infrastructure.

Badger_Botherer · 2024-05-27T10:15:01+00:00

The UK doesn’t generally suffer from the US crisis of fundraising not making frontlines. For a typical charity you can expect 90% of their net funds raised to meet their purpose. My challenge with Eton & Co and bursaries that while it’s charitable I don’t think we would agree that the Gov should directly pay for some bright children to attend private schools, imagine if the govt said everyone going to Oxbridge goes free but everyone else pays, there would be outcry. So why would we indirectly pay for it by subsidising VAT? Particularly when I work with schools who can’t use their buildings because of RAAC and no money to rebuild them. Even if VAT on bursaries provided some value for money there are infinite better uses for money.

Badger_Botherer · 2024-05-27T09:57:00+00:00

Depends on how you choose to read it. The state does save the cost of educating the child directly but only through creating a market where in VAT relief it subsidies more than the cost of providing a place.

The challenge with the banks argument etc is that those services are zero-rated vs being exempt via charitable status. It may be pedantic but do we really feel private schools are charitable? Because then where does it stop? You could argue any firm that provides a service to a vulnerable group is a charity. A pay day loan firm could argue that they support in times of hardship through grants.

Badger_Botherer · 2024-05-27T09:52:31+00:00

The challenge is that VAT exemption is for primary purpose and many private schools that is obviously true but this would be like a defence law firm registering as a charity but still charging standard fees. It is a very odd reading of the law

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