Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement Re: Damage to flooring - liabilities and costs 4Dec 06, 2021 5:17 pm mhlangensiepen …regardless of our T&Cs, many courts will pretty much side with Joe Public regardless of the conract and it can therefore become quite expensive to go further. Firstly, I doubt that would be the case if it can be proven they were fully informed and signed the contract understanding what they were signing. Secondly, legal action is expensive and time consuming, and I doubt "Joe Public" have the means or inclination to take such action knowing they could end up having to pay costs on both sides if their litigation turns out to be frivolous or vexatious. I am "Joe Public" and I know I would never take legal action in favour of negotiating a reasonable settlement or maybe, just maybe, enter into mediation. Re: Damage to flooring - liabilities and costs 5Jan 04, 2022 5:38 pm You have the right to use your own preferred installer rather than the clients, you did the damage you have the right to repair. If there was a dispute over the quality of the repairs then you would need to assess them against the Standards & Tolerance Guide, if outside the guide then it would need to be redone. The other way is to get your guy to Quote the works and enter into a Deed of Release, where you pay the owner an amount and they do or don't do the repair and its on them. You would generally settle somewhere above your amount and below their amount. This would only be required if you believe you wont meet the expectation of the client level of acceptance of repair. We are Expert Consultant's, and we are here to help. I thought this would be a popular question but I haven't been able to find any similar posts. Perhaps I'm wording my searches wrong? When you have car insurance and the… 0 6615 there was an event. The question is whether the builder had the insurance and whether the event was covered. The workmanship is a separate conversation. 10 23737 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair The workmanship is lifetime guarantee by "the insurer", not the builder. They will of course ask the initial builder to rectify and if they don't they will appoint… 7 5046 |