SilverStreaks
New Member
Hey gals and guys, I'm after some advice/help on what I can do to salvage/return to normal/fix this mess please.
We needed a lot of work done in the garden last summer part of which was to spruce up the pond area. So, we got a guy in and got a quote we were happy with and that should have been it. What followed was several weeks of nightmare. Most of the work he agreed to wasn't even attempted, some of the work that was done was not actually finished and the work that he did finish was not even close to being professional or satisfactory. One of his "crew" even brought his children who thought it good fun to slap a tree branch onto the pond surface. Tools were "borrowed" and not returned, breakages happened.
The advice I would like regards the painting/treating of the decking. They have used ordinary gloss. Took no precautions to protect the fish (so the cloudy bit in the pics is actually green paint).
Replacing the decking would be a job too much for me (my wife is a retiree and I'm not far off it myself) and we feel it may be too expensive as well. So, based on what you've read and can see, what are our options?
Many many thanks
SS
I'll just add that we took him to court and got our money back. This has been a highly emotive time, my wife has lived here for a long time and the garden is her "baby" if you will and to see her so stressed was very upsetting. Any help you can offer is very much appreciated.
We needed a lot of work done in the garden last summer part of which was to spruce up the pond area. So, we got a guy in and got a quote we were happy with and that should have been it. What followed was several weeks of nightmare. Most of the work he agreed to wasn't even attempted, some of the work that was done was not actually finished and the work that he did finish was not even close to being professional or satisfactory. One of his "crew" even brought his children who thought it good fun to slap a tree branch onto the pond surface. Tools were "borrowed" and not returned, breakages happened.
The advice I would like regards the painting/treating of the decking. They have used ordinary gloss. Took no precautions to protect the fish (so the cloudy bit in the pics is actually green paint).
Replacing the decking would be a job too much for me (my wife is a retiree and I'm not far off it myself) and we feel it may be too expensive as well. So, based on what you've read and can see, what are our options?
Many many thanks
SS
I'll just add that we took him to court and got our money back. This has been a highly emotive time, my wife has lived here for a long time and the garden is her "baby" if you will and to see her so stressed was very upsetting. Any help you can offer is very much appreciated.