Anyone done work for LOM Maintenance?

[BigAndyB]

Hi Guys,

Had a call from LOM Maintenance, in Southend, they do call out work accross the country.
They seemed proffessional, but they do not pay!! I only did two jobs, but as i'm cautious and busy, i waited and got plenty of calls, but was unable to help.
When i spoke to the call centre last, and said no work till i get paid. No more calls, no more work.

Anyone else had dealings with them??

 

[sparkyphil1]

Hi Guys,

Had a call from LOM Maintenance, in Southend, they do call out work accross the country.
They seemed proffessional, but they do not pay!! I only did two jobs, but as i'm cautious and busy, i waited and got plenty of calls, but was unable to help.
When i spoke to the call centre last, and said no work till i get paid. No more calls, no more work.

Anyone else had dealings with them??

Hi mate I've never heard of them and worked around Essex for 15+ years they sound like a call handling FM company which will use all different contractors and knock them all I'd steer clear if I were you.

 

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Lom Maintenance, 293 Eastwood Road North, Leigh-on-Sea, ss9 4lt - Property Maintenance Services

found them now hound them

If you look that up on Google maps it comes up as the building with the blue facade to the left of the Tandoori Resaurant. Looks pretty non-descript and I would bet they are fly-by-night merchants. Perhaps ask Trading Standards or the Trade and Commerce body (?) down there if they have any information about the company.

 

[Welchyboy1]

Lom Maintenance, 293 Eastwood Road North, Leigh-on-Sea, ss9 4lt - Property Maintenance Services

found them now hound them

why not leave them a few reviews!, they already have a bad one

 

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They were featured on Radio 4s consumer magazine You & Yours today: BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Bank switching

 

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They were featured on Radio 4s consumer magazine You & Yours today: BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Bank switching

start listening at 11 mins in

 

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Laurence O'Mahony - United Kingdom | LinkedIn

If you subscribe linked in you can find out about the manager

 

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He sets up repeat businesses

Easy 24/7 Services leaves traders short - Investigations

 

[partypest]

Hilarious! They told me they'd tell me when that was going to be aired, but never mind. I hope any of you who are still waiting for money from these guys feels a little happier knowing a small guy struck back.

 

[MDJ]

I have a feeling the team may close this thread, I hope they do not, this guy stinks and the whole www of electricians need to know it, a complete country ban from any sparks working for this idiot needs to happen, appalling, nothing worse than making someone graft then taking their money.

 

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All the information I have posted links to is freely accessible from reputable sources: Radio 4, Mirror and, one supposes, O'Mahoneys own entry to Linked in.

Mirror - I don't think it has anything to do with the Daily Mirror.


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Andrew Penman and Nick Sommerlad form the Daily Mirror's Investigations team. They write a weekly column in the Mirror every Thursday and they're here to help uncover the scams, and expose the people behind them. They won the Cudlipp Award for campaigning popular journalism at the 2010 British Press Awards

 

[Selfmade]

I had a call this morning from 01702330177. I rejected the call as I recognised the code as Leigh-on-Sea and assumed it was LOM. The caller left a message claiming to be from "ERG", and asking me to do "electrical testing" for them. Looking them up the closest I can find is Erg Maintenance Ltd, based 6 doors from Lawrence O'Mahony's "Registered Address" according to LAURENCE PATRICK O'MAHONY director information. Free director information. . I don't have any evidence the two are connected but you can draw your own conclusions. LOM still owe me £85 from January.

 

[BobTheSparks]

I had a call this morning from 01702330177. I rejected the call as I recognised the code as Leigh-on-Sea and assumed it was LOM. The caller left a message claiming to be from "ERG", and asking me to do "electrical testing" for them. Looking them up the closest I can find is Erg Maintenance Ltd, based 6 doors from Lawrence O'Mahony's "Registered Address" according to LAURENCE PATRICK O'MAHONY director information. Free director information. . I don't have any evidence the two are connected but you can draw your own conclusions. LOM still owe me £85 from January.

I did some work for ERG (Emergency Response Group) in November 2014 - and am still chasing payment. They just give you the run-around. Their phone number is 01702330177. "Head office" is stated as 524A London Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Esses, SS0 9HS. The VAT reg number they gave me is for ERG Maintenance Ltd, Sole director Ms Tara Zoe Sexton. The VAT number is registered a few doors up at 539-541 London Road, but Companies house has a different address (probably an accountancy firm with 100's of other companies also registered there). Having read other posts here I have a bad feeling about this...

 

[BobTheSparks]

Further to my last post, ERG have just paid me! (after I shouted at them...). This was at 73 days after the invoice date. They chose to ignore the additional late payment interest and admin penalties.
I won't be accepting any more jobs from them.

 

[Rainbm]

I did some work for ERG (Emergency Response Group) a couple of months ago. I was suspicious and posted to a gas engineer's forum I belong to, but unfortunately didn't see the replies until after I'd done the work.

As I feared I wasn't going to get paid, I chased them up as soon as their 29 day payment terms were up. I phoned and emailed them many times and was always given polite replies that I would be paid that there was not problem. I mailed them telling them I was going to issue a Small Claims action if I wasn't paid with 7 days. Again they promised to pay. Actually, their accounts office who you can't speak to on the phone, they only take email, said they would forward my email to their director to ensure urgent payment.

I issued a Small Claims action 9 days ago and got a cheque today. I'm guessing they operate a business model of not paying people until they get a summons, biting the bullet for the additional cost because the majority of people that don't bother for a small some (my invoice was for £93 they paid £158 including my court fee of £25 and £40 that regulations say you can charge for non payment recovery costs). Nasty.

Hopefully this thread will stop people getting burned, but if you find it after the event as I did, do take the effort to take them to court (it's not hard, took me about 30 mins online through the government website https://www.gov.uk/make-money-claim-online) and try and let's try to stop this happening.

 

[LED Lighting]

Hi all

I was owed £500 by this company upto 1 hour ago.
After reading this post I called them up and told lewis to tell tara that unless I have my money by the morning I will be at their door at 9am with the police and trading standards.

Within 2 minuets of hanging up the phone they paid me!

Worth a try for anyone else owed money by erg or lom