The
following are in our opinion have not
fulfilled their contractual obligations:
Company:
A.I.M. (Renovation Specialist)
Name of
owner: Simon Taylor
Location:
Mojacar Playa
Trade: Plumber, Kitchen Fitter, All round Building
works / renovations.
Employed
to do: Fitting of Kitchens, First fit of plumbing for whole house
and bed and breakfast and central heating first fit. Fitting of all
sanitary ware. Fitting and commissioning of all gas boilers.
Commissioning of all sceptic tanks and water deposits.
Complaints:
Does not supply
goods paid for by client.
Did not pay
kitchen company full deposit, kept the rest for himself.
Did not pay
the kitchen fitter the full amount, which we had paid to him to give to
the kitchen fitter. When questioned he stated that he had paid the
fitter, (BS).
Did not pay
the kitchen fitter for the professional plans /drawings.
Supplied wrong
sanitary ware three times - incompetent.
Went to meet
him at the hospital after having a heated telephone conversation - needless
to say he was not there.
Does not attend
/ keep meetings / appointments.
Spoke to his mother and she explained that
he was not working for us because we had not paid him - we then explained
that we had paid over 7000€ and he had not supplied anything for it.
Has not pressure
tested the pipe work in house, he says he has and he had witnesses, but
when the witnesses are questioned they deny watching him do it.
List of excuses over 6 month period:
Wife left
him.
Wife took
all his money - Although he had already told us and our friend that he had
hidden all his money from his wife to stop her getting at it.
Van broke
down (twice).
Arrested for
having child in front seat of van.
Unable to
get fuel during truck drivers strike (although we managed to get some 8km
away from Mojacar Playa).
Accident in
van, Although was seen driving around by kitchen company.
Accident in
car.
Child is ill.
Van impounded
by police.
Kitchen units
were not ready, but when we contacted the kitchen company, they informed
us the kitchen was ready and awaiting collection and it was Simon who said
he was not ready for the kitchen.
Cut his hand.
Had his foot
run over.
Blaming delays
on our builder.
Spent whole
day at bathroom suppliers sourcing our baths, said he did not leave the
place until 9pm, funny that he had told us the week before that they are
working intensive hours (as the Spanish do in Summer) and they close at
3pm.
Vans windscreen
was smashed whilst driving on the E15 Motorway.
The next day
the van had black smoke coming from the exhaust, he said his labourer would
come to the house with a car and trailer full of materials for our sceptic
tanks and he would hire a car and bring the rest. He promised he would
be there. Needless to say, yet another lie and he turned his mobile
telephone off at 3pm.
Arrested again
- possibly true.
In court -
possibly true, at least I now know where my money is going.
Said he would ring us when he had finished in court - Not in a million years.
Tuesday: Turned
up sporting a back eye (obviously owes money to someone else) and with a
boiler which will only run hot water, we have given him money to purchase
boilers for the central heating as well, not only that money for three boilers.
Stated that his store room had been broken into and our boilers had been
stolen along with tools and a motorcycle. Sorry, did I see pigs overhead.
Promised to
return later with another boiler - oop's yet another lie.
Did not turn
up the next day either.
Organised
to meet with him and requested he refund our monies in full - He agreed.
Needless to say he cancelled. Tried to organise again but he decided
he was going to turn up onsite and continue where he had left off.
He did turn up and did half a days work. We will keep you informed.
Recommendations:
None.
Conclusion:
You decided
if you would like to hire this company, but the above is our experience.
This is the
only man we know who can make you feel guilty for ringing him all the time
when he owes us 7,500€.
