I have not been paid, what shall I do

[sham]

2 chances of getting paid I reckon, slim and none, waiting 2 years is just daft imo

It's because he was always saying he was going to pay me.
Promise is comfort to a fool.

 

[Octopus]

I think the OP needs to grow a pair

Send the customer a final demand and if no payment is forthcoming just initiate legal action..............

 

[sham]

I think the OP needs to grow a pair

Send the customer a final demand and if no payment is forthcoming just initiate legal action..............

I'm working on it now. Phoned solicitor, trying to make appointment.

 

[sham]

I just want to thank everyone for their advice, it gives me options.

 

[Octopus]

I'm working on it now. Phoned solicitor, trying to make appointment.

Don't waste your time AND money on a solicitor

Small claims court - its all on line ........

Make a money claim online - https://www.gov.uk/make-money-claim

 

[Mark68]

Well thats why I trained in electrical and engineering. Lol

He does have 3 years to start a claim I would go ahead with claim and just learn not to allow it to go on so long next time. If you don't do the claim it's like him sticking his 2 fingers up at you every time you go past that club and it will just eat at you. You can always go on judge rinder court show. Lol

 

[sham]

Don't waste your time AND money on a solicitor

Small claims court - its all on line ........

Make a money claim online - https://www.gov.uk/make-money-claim

Apparently, there is something new now, the debtor pays all the bills. A bit like no win no fee. That is why I'm tempted to go that route.

 

[Octopus]

Apparently, there is something new now, the debtor pays all the bills. A bit like no win no fee. That is why I'm tempted to go that route.

With money claim online, the cost of taking action is ADDED to the debt.

 

[rolyberkin]

With money claim online, the cost of taking action is ADDED to the debt.

Money claim online is now not always the most efficient way of recovering a debt, it is easier and quicker to put it the hands of a specialist debt collection agency such as Thomas Higgins, they collect the debt, you get 100% of what is owed and they get awarded the costs and chase them, it really is a no brainer.

 

[sham]

Yes, there seem to be new options now that I was not aware of. Anyway thank you to everyone who has replied. Would anyone like to know the outcome of the route I take and results ?. As it could help others.

 

[123]

I hope you get paid. But I hope you have changed how you do things as well. Should look at getting staged payments on the job, especially if you are there for 6 months on and off.
And to let it go for 2 years is mental.

I've been caught by someone going bankrupt and a couple of little none payers since I went out on my own 8 years ago. With the bankrupt I was back of the queue to get paid as he owed HMRC a fortune.

Also been caught (sort of) on a new build. Basic terms 60% after 1st fix, 40% when complete. She held first fix monies back as 1st fix not complete as the Sun Room wasn't wired. It hadn't been built yet. Got paid in full eventually, but still...that is what you are up against some times!

 

[PEG]

He initially brought the material to begin with, I brought some to complete second fix. The £5000 is actually £5700, this is for the work that I have done coming in and out over 6 months.

Hi,so you did 6 months of work without resolving payment?

With the greatest respect,you may have assisted your customer in believing he could get away with anything.

I genuinely hope you get payment,satisfaction or both,but going off the facts so far,i stand by my feeling that the chances are slim.

Do not get carried away with some of the more lurid,laddish pub-talk...it will only bring the kind of trouble,which your opposition deserves

 

[Octopus]

Also been caught (sort of) on a new build. Basic terms 60% after 1st fix, 40% when complete. She held first fix monies back as 1st fix not complete as the Sun Room wasn't wired. It hadn't been built yet. Got paid in full eventually, but still...that is what you are up against some times!

I tend to bill per room complete .......... this avoids issues like this.

 

[baldelectrician]

I had a landlord who owed me £150 3 months ago.
He told I wasn't getting my effin money
Sent him an invoice
Sent him a 7 day notice

Send each item twice - once recorded and once 'proof of postage' (the second you get a receipt with destination details).
This was they cannot say they didn't get the post

He paid within 4 days of the 7 day notice

 

[pirate]

My tuppence worth, from my previous life...
You should have got a solicitor in much earlier. The documentation and records would have been clearer, and led to an easier resolution in the court. Different criteria apply here in Scotland, but the advice is the same...get a solicitor on it right away.
Also, make sure you have a contract, and one which specifies that the materials are and remain your property until paid for. This will not protect "heritable" or "real" property where the degree of annexation is such that the equipment, cables etc are fully integrated into the building, but DBs and CUs would probably be deemed moveable property. I would favour a lock on the DB...demonstrate everything works, then pull the plug, lock it, and hand over the key on payment!
A client once told me how he ensured payment for his work as a stonemason...he cut and fitted all the stones for an archway he had dismantled and moved to a new location for the Local Authority, then asked for the 1st instalment of his payment, this having been agreed in advance. They didn't pay. He, however, had marked all the stones, and had the key to them on a sheet of paper...
They gave in!