Help! Advice please.

[Chris derrick]

hi all, first post here.

The story in a nut shell is, I did some work for a customer through a building contractor. It was a big house with 2 consumer units. I sorted out the nuisance tripping and added a sub-board for a outhouse. I also did some superficial works. Replacing face plates etc.

This was about 3 months ago. Iv had a phone call recently with a bill £2300 from the building contractor, as the property had earth leakage on the lighting and many unlying issues that wasn't picked up on. I told the building contractor and the customer many times the property needed a full service to put right what was wrong.

Question is how liable am ?

 

[Paul228]

The bigger crime is...what happened to Leicester city this season

 

[Chris derrick]

View attachment 36610 no that's fine....

 

[Chris derrick]

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[Chris derrick]

In all I took around £700

 

[Chris derrick]

There still in the premier league mate, that's all that matters. Not sure about next season

 

[Chris derrick]

Sorry guys, obviously more than £2300!!!!

 

[ruston]

Chris , I would ask a moderator to remove your personal details in view of the nature of the post and pre judiciary.

 

[Chris derrick]

My mistake, sorry.

 

[dmxtothemax]

I think you would be crazy to pay the money
on such an "iffy" case !

 

[DPG]

OK, so you did something a bit dodgy, but then as said above, the builder is just as guilty of that. And they didn't even give you the option of looking at/fixing any alleged issues.

I would put money on them not taking you to court over this - they know they would have next to no chance of proving anything against you. I reckon they're just trying it on. Wouldn't surprise me if they've done something like this before.

At the end of the day, you did some installation work and you assumed the builder was going to get building control to sign it off as part of the whole works.

DON'T PAY HIM.

 

[Dave Jenkins]

Notwithstanding all the valid arguments regarding being contacted first about remedial actions etc etc, surely if you replaced a CCU and have therefore tested all the circuits therein, would you not then be liable for the integrity of those circuits? Unless of course you made specific reference to any problems you encountered - in which case you'd have left the circuit(s) powered off?

 

[Rpa07]

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[Dave Jenkins]

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[Paul228]

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[Rpa07]

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