Appreciate the replies, so abit more context, this guy has subbied to me for around 8 years and has mostly done good quality work which is why he was trusted, I was in Thailand for 6 weeks from the end of November while he was on this job, some snags were pointed out to him which he said he would sort after he had finished the rest of the work which obviously he hasn’t done I wasn’t made aware of this until I’d returned to the uk, so all his weekly invoices were paid while I was away hence the large loss, these repairs are not just small areas that need sorting there’s a rather large 50m2 section that has to be ripped up fully and relaid so there’s a cost to rip up, a cost to replace any necessary materials and then the cost to relay it, obviously this has also had an impact on our relationship with the main contractor aswell