Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 7Jun 04, 2007 3:56 pm 3timesbuilda Hi Minx, You certainly can claim and likely win but chances are that he hasn't a penny to his name. Your cheque is probably now in his mothers/wifes or other account or better yet already blown. Take care that legal action doesn't cost more than you actually really get. Ie. just because you win does not mean that you will see the money the court grants you. This is why I think it is such a lousy system. 3xb Well I ended up filing a small claim via VCAT. It cost me two hundred and something dollars and the nice people at VCAT recommended that over a Building dispute as lawyers can get involved in the building dispute. He has a business in property development and asked if my boy could do the frame, all this prior to delivering the timber. My boy declined as we are in the east burbs of Melb and the frame he wanted was in Point Cook a fair hike away. He bragged to me having a "business parner" with a builders license, which my aim is to get the license cancelled and the business shut down. I know where he lives so one way or another I will get my money back. Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 8Jun 04, 2007 4:04 pm Hi Minx,
Good on you, I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you. Let us know how it all turns out. Regards 3xb Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 9Jun 04, 2007 5:06 pm Good luck Minx. Whatever the outcome it's good for everyone to try to nail these bastards. Even if you don't end up getting every cent back, just annoying the hell out of these evil cretins is some compensation. Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 10Jun 04, 2007 6:37 pm Thanks for the kind words. I will be compensated one way or another and will take it all the way to nail him. Will keep you all up dated (about 6 weeks till the VCAT hearing i think). Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 11Jun 04, 2007 9:04 pm When I suggested withdrawing money from your bank account and therefore forcing the cheque to bounce, I assumed it was a personal cheque. Apparantly it was a bank cheque. Oops.
Matt, I would rather have a bounced cheque and one blemish on my credit file than have someone cash in my cheque for somethign he didn't deliver. Minx, I'm surprised the small claim with VCAT was two hundred and something dollars. I thought it was somethign like $30 to lodge a claim. Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 12Jun 04, 2007 10:26 pm The increasing size of the lodgement fee means that "small claims" pretty soon won't be too small... Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 14Jul 01, 2007 5:49 pm Hi Minx,
This is quite a late post but I just noticed your warning to readers about floor suppliers passing off overseas timbers for Australian hard wood and wanted to let you know you're not alone. I've been ripped off too. I went to a foor supplier in St Peters Sydney who was advertising in the newspaper Brushbox solid timber floorboards for sale. I went to the sale and they assured me it was Austalian Brushbox. They told me they had limited supply and needed a deposit which I paid. On delivery of the timber I noticed some half removed stickers on the packaging and also the timbers were very shot in length (the longest being about 1.5 meters, the shortest being just 60cm) which made me think it was imported. I called this shop and they told me it was still Australian Brushbox but had been milled in China. I wasn't happy to hear this but lived with it, until several weeks later the floor sander told me he was finding it hard to sand the wood and it looked nothing like Brushbox. I made another call to them and finally they revealed it was infact a timber from overseas...somewhere around Asia, but certainly not Australia as I had been originally told by the salesman. They tried to tell me it was just as good as Brushbox. I'm planning to take them to the fair trading tribunal for misleading advertising to get my money back. To anyone else thinking of buying floorboards, do your homework first. Jeff Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 15Jul 01, 2007 6:39 pm Love it Minx, and your forum names lives up to your spirit!!!!
Don’t let this guy get away with it, and I’m sure your not! Good for you! Although judging by what you have said I would say the guy had the wrong timber delivered to him by the timber mill, and THEY won’t take it back, so he is stuck with it. I’d be interested to know if he taking the same action with them, that you are with him! It would be nice to know which timer mill he ordered it from. Maybe a little ringing around on your behalf could source that. Then you would know exactly what he ordered!! Good luck. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Solid Timber Flooring **Be aware** 16Jul 05, 2007 11:31 am Thanks for all the kind words and support.
I'm glad that I posted this thread as someone came forward and informed me of their troubles with him. Between the two of us we have so much info to fry the guy which is what I will be doing. He is not aware that we have found each other. He had the opportunity to fix his mistake and he thought that if he ignored the issue it will go away. Trust me...I don't do away, i'm coming and with a venegence! There is no talk about his mill, as he knows it's not his mills fault. He ordered ******* timber hoping I would be too stupid to realise. He is even more stupid for trying to do this when he knows that my partner is a chippy What he will learn.....don't mess with a fiesty Minx!! Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 15884 If this is a custom build then I would expect the builder to set out the door frame closer to the wall to avoid the gap between architrave and the wall and or specify… 9 8287 1000000% definitely add insulation. I have in my home and it makes a big difference minimising sound transfer. Insulation is pretty cheap and definitely worth it 2 6173 |