Hi all
I’m in a big dilemma with a doggy builder. During build he requested us to pay directly to his suppliers and with lot of disputes we had to agree as we had no choice in order to finish the build soon. Now build is completed except installing down pipes by a plumber. We have over paid the builder by 25k and he is refusing to give OP and over payments we did.
What can we do? We have a case with DBDRV pending VCAT but a long wait time, can builder hold off the work and not provide OP as per the contract? He is now accusing us that we have done an alfresco improvements without his knowledge whereas we only provided his site supervisor the carpenter contact details and we have proofs that they coordinated work
Can we get OP directly via the building Surveyor without builders involvement or if we legally terminate contract can we get the OP by ourselves?
Pl help