I have not been paid, what shall I do

[James]

Just to confirm, what country is the work being done in?

 

[Risteard]

Didn’t want to start another new thread but my situation is finished a large house rewire apart from an unfinished bathroom and was in process of testing on Friday. Over the weekend the customer checked the “Register of qualified “ electricians and couldn’t find my name so refusing to pay final payments and I’m getting a bill for a qualified electrician to sign off. Job is satisfactory. I’m an approved gold card spark with all possible other cards and 20 years in the industry so will be quite surprised if any anything is found bar no blanks in the consumer unit.(supplied by customer)

Have I got the gist that I should send him an itemised invoice. Which I have. In 3 days send a final demand then apply on line to small claims court 28 days later?

He’s also going to report me to trading standards as I’m not an electrician apparantly. As I’ve said there is nothing in the job that could have worried him and no prior dialogue of any concerns. Sent me a message on Thursday saying what a great job I had done

Sorry to hear about your problems.

If your JIB card is in date then you could send a verification link to ECS Check and then he will see that you are listed as Electrician, Approved Electrician or whatever.

Obviously blanks should have been fitted in the DB even if the customer didn't supply any, but that's beside the point.

 

[BLBelfast]

Just to confirm, what country is the work being done in?

Northern Ireland

 

[BLBelfast]

Sorry to hear about your problems.

If your JIB card is in date then you could send a verification link to ECS Check and then he will see that you are listed as Electrician, Approved Electrician or whatever.

Obviously blanks should have been fitted in the DB even if the customer didn't supply any, but that's beside the point.

I think he is well aware I’m a spark and it’s the NIC register he is checking after having no mention of it before Friday when he was meant to pay me. Not sure he is interested and it’s his plan that I just give up as im
not on the list he’s looked up.

The blanks issue could come up when the other company come in to sign off and there was no live tests carried out so surely thinking I can’t be held accountable if it fails as I wasn’t given the chance to test fully

 

[James]

ok, I don't know what the legal requirements for doing domestic work in NI are.
In England it would come under part P of building reg's

but if you are qualified and registered with whoever you need to be, i would not be accepting a bill for someone else testing the instalation.
provide them with your own set of certificates of installation and a bill.

 

[nicebutdim]

I'd hazard a guess that this isn't his first time not paying bills and I'm not sure that his 'not a member of a particular trade body' argument will go far in court.

 

[James]

If you have been thrown off site before the job is complete, unless there is something fundamentally wrong with your workmanship, i would expect you to be able to invoice for all materials and all time on site at your standard hourley rate.

Note, this may be more than the price you quoted for the works in total.

 

[BLBelfast]

Sorry to hear about your problems.

If your JIB card is in date then you could send a verification link to ECS Check and then he will see that you are listed as Electrician, Approved Electrician or whatever.

Obviously blanks should have been fitted in the DB even if the customer didn't supply any, but that's beside the point.

How do you send a link for this please.Not quite sure how I get an authorisation code?

 

[BLBelfast]

ok, I don't know what the legal requirements for doing domestic work in NI are.
In England it would come under part P of building reg's

but if you are qualified and registered with whoever you need to be, i would not be accepting a bill for someone else testing the instalation.
provide them with your own set of certificates of installation and a bill.

I have texts telling him I would be testing on Friday and then his arguement over the weekend was I am unable or won’t provide a certificate. I said he won’t be getting it till I’m paid but didn’t even get a chance to finish testing

 

[James]

Note:
Keep a record of all comunication between yourself and the customer.

if it is a telephone call, take notes of the important points and email a copy of them to the customer.
ensure that you can be seen to have made all reasonable efforts to sort out issues. (this will help you a lot if it goes to small claims court)