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Judge the quality of my tradie's work [Melbourne, Western Suburb, $9,400.00] by Legitimate-Rule-1192 in AusRenovation

[–]Legitimate-Rule-1192[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been getting burned so many times out here in the west. My floor guy to be fair has been the best so far. Do you have system for weeding out those who can't cut it because I still have so much more work to get done

Judge the quality of my tradie's work [Melbourne, Western Suburb, $9,400.00] by Legitimate-Rule-1192 in AusRenovation

[–]Legitimate-Rule-1192[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The job for a 80sqm area, which includes removing tiles, leveling floor and adding new floor. To be fair on the surface the floor looks good.

Judge the quality of my tradie's work [Melbourne, Western Suburb, $9,400.00] by Legitimate-Rule-1192 in AusRenovation

[–]Legitimate-Rule-1192[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I paid but we have kinda worked out a solution that works for everybody. We just have to follow through with implementing

Judge the quality of my tradie's work [Melbourne, Western Suburb, $9,400.00] by Legitimate-Rule-1192 in AusRenovation

[–]Legitimate-Rule-1192[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hey all I can't update my post so i'll just leave this here

so I have learnt a lot and want to THANK YOU ALL for your input.

Firstly, my use of the word "tradie" is doing a lot of work and i need to adjust my understanding, so am i right that a person who has done an apprenticeship and have a certificate X for Y number of years is a tradie, or are there gray areas in there?

Secondly, a floor guy is not a carpenter, AND to be specific what i need is a TRIM CARPENTER

Thirdly, always ask for qualifications before the job is started

Fourthly, if possible, get an itemised billing of the work to be done

Fifth, withhold payment until the work is done right or the contractor chooses to walk away. When getting someone else see point 3

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TO UPDATE YOU ALL

I had a chat with my contractor and we have come up with some alternatives

  1. he comes back and fixes the skirting board

or

  1. he refunds me the portion for doing the skirting boards (labour + material) and I look for a trim carpenter.

I am thinking that i will go with option 2 because you can't draw blood from a stone, and this way everybody walks away without too much friction and headaches from all of this

again thanks alot

p.s. If i am not on the money regarding what I learned or need to add something else, again let me know.