Help with a cowboy builder
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 2:20 pm
It's a long story that honestly I feel frustrated to go into in detail
So long story short, door to door decorators/builders came, did an awful job at decorating (didn't cut in, didn't do a second coat, clearly left the job unfinished), said they'd be by on Saturday to finish the job after my mum paid the balance at their insistence, and then they never came back. We've had no contact since Saturday afternoon when he claimed he was 'stuck in traffic and would be an hour' and then never showed up.
The work itself we've accepted I need to finish myself/get somebody else to do, we don't want them to come back to finish. But they've left their advertising board in the front garden, along with all the rubbish and offcuts. I can take the rubbish and offcuts down the dump with no problem, but I don't know where we stand in throwing their board out. What's the reasonable amount of time we can leave it before we throw it out? It's a wooden pallet with a sign glued onto it, but I'm worried about legal recourse if we just throw it out. (Yes they're the ones in the wrong, but my mum is the person I care for, and we both have anxiety, and can't handle the stress of small claims court)
They haven't been answering the phone, we've called and also left text messages to both numbers with no answer.

The work itself we've accepted I need to finish myself/get somebody else to do, we don't want them to come back to finish. But they've left their advertising board in the front garden, along with all the rubbish and offcuts. I can take the rubbish and offcuts down the dump with no problem, but I don't know where we stand in throwing their board out. What's the reasonable amount of time we can leave it before we throw it out? It's a wooden pallet with a sign glued onto it, but I'm worried about legal recourse if we just throw it out. (Yes they're the ones in the wrong, but my mum is the person I care for, and we both have anxiety, and can't handle the stress of small claims court)
They haven't been answering the phone, we've called and also left text messages to both numbers with no answer.