Errr... he is the one who breached. And if his abuse included any physical
threats, which it sounds like he did, then he assaulted you too. But you
shouldn't be bothered persuing it.
Just tell the silly fucker to shove a mokey wrench up his ass. And then give
me the name of the good tradesman :-)
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"A bit more than" <tipsy@no-spam> wrote in message
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> I've been doing up a bathroom and 3 times the bloody tiler has let us
down, so I
> hired someone else to do the job.
>
> Now the first tiler has threatened to sue us for breach of contract unless
we
> pay him $1750 for the tiling that the other bloke did. Nothing was
signed, it
> was all verbal.
>
> The first dude promised to do the job on June 2nd. He never showed or
rang. I
> called him, he apologized and claimed it was the 6th he was due. The 6th
came
> and went. I rang him again and he promised he would be at our place on
June
> 10th.
>
> The prick never showed.
>
> I didn't bother to ring him that time, I contacted another tiler who
agreed to
> do the job on June 16th. The second tiler even called me on June 15th to
tell me
> he would be at my place the next day. He was and did a very good job.
>
> The first tiler showed up on June 19th, I told him he was no longer
required and
> he started abusing me. I told him to get the fuck off my property. He
did.
>
> He phoned my yesterday demanding payment and threatened to sue me if I
didn't
> pay. I told him to shove it up his arse because he never showed up at the
> agreed times.
>
> Does this prick have a leg to stand on?
>