My KDR Metricon Hampshire - Liberty - 45 Melb

Criminal damage to private property or something similar to that. Going through the process now.

Show the txt conversation to the police and they surprised that he wrote what he wrote in the txt.

Thanks D777

The worst part is that he admitted doing this to others and have gotten away with it time and time again.

Challenging the police is not the smartest thing to do.

Wow, what a piece of sh!t. Can't believe there's scum bags like this around. Hope he gets what he deserves.

I can’t believe his gotten away with it. If he came across someone like my brother. I guarantee you he wouldn’t do it he would be running for his life. Get someone out to measure the fence. Then take it further. I wouldn’t stand for that.


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What a germ...

Since the excitement of the issue last week, we have had some steady progress. Hoping with the Spring sunshine brings more consistent days onsite.

Taking shape nicely! Must be so good to finally be able to walk into your house without dragging mud everywhere.

Looks amazing. Can’t wait to see how it looks like with your garden.


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So good not to do the shoe shuffle each day.

Can't even imagine the day when we can drive into our garage.

shaping up nicely Ren. You will be able to fully enjoy your amazing built.

It's looking great. I can't believe that fencer! Oh my goodness! Ha, hilarious you got his photo of him doing it and the text message admitting to it all. What a nutter though to come out and chop it up. Holy moly, screws loose or what. I'd have been scared to be near him with that thing in his hand. Has he chopped through and cut the neighbors shed as well? Keep us updated how it goes, im keen to hear!

I must be so unlucky with it comes to picking the tradies for landscaping and fencing.

Why is it to hard to find tradies who is will to do the work as contracted and do it with pride in mind!

oh no, it doesn't sound good

No it isn't. Doing our landscaping has been one of the hardest and stressful things ever.

What's happened now, mate?

First incident.

Long story short, we have paver that are 1000mmx500mm long and that they would be cut 1000mmx250mm to be used as a border around our paving. We found out that he would be using a hand grinder to cut the pavers and we ask if he could use a bench saw so we could get a straight continuous cut. He declined and said that he has been using the hand grinder for 10 year and no one had an issue. We asked if he normally cut 1000mm long pavers and he said no.

So after some discussion we agreed to pay half of the price to hire the bench saw to cut the pavers. So all good for the backyard.

Then can along the frontyard, we had the same agreement, all good. When it came to the 1000mm drop face step pavers he refused and would only do it by a hand grinder. I even agreed to paid for the hire in full ($160 per day).

Second incident

While digging they damaged an external garden tape of our, offered to move is about 1.5m away from the original position as it would impact their concerte pour for a path and steps. Plumber came and relocated it to an incorrect location as agreed .5m away. Advised the landsaper and he claimed I have the wrong location. Wanted to charge me $150 for it to be moved again, I refused. Now wants me to charge me $220 for relocating it to the wrong location. I argued that i shouldn't be paying since it was damaged by this team in the first place.


Third incident

We are getting exposed Agg for our driveway. He is planning to cut the expansion joint that is 9m in length and 4.5m wide by using a hand grinder. I requested that it be cut using a saw that is on a trolley to get the correct depth and straight line.

He is claiming that I am too difficult to work with and too demanding. He has stopped work on site and threaten us to leave the contract unless he is allowed to work unhinged.

These are some of the experiences that we have had with this landsaper.


What would you do?

Do we have the right to request these things, especially if we are willing to pay for it?

I reckon cutting pavers with handgrinder is fine.

At the end u need to choose your battles.

Trades people get annoyed when client tries to tell them on how to do things.

If u annoyed them too much, down the track even reasonable items they would refuse. Which seems to be your case.


3rd incident - why he bothers to cut it by hand himself is beyond me.

My concreter just sub contract it to another guy who specialises in doing such job.

And he just included it in his quote accordingly.

Stuck between hard place and a rock. I'm assuming you're paying some decent coin for all these items, you would think the trades would have all the correct tools to begin with, quite disappointing.

Not having a good run brother, hopefully it'll all turn out fine in the the end and you can put it all behind you and start enjoying the house.