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Letters about services Updated 01 Jun 2010

Delays in service

Letter to electrictian/plumber/builder about delays

[Date]

Dear ...

[Address and job number if there is one]

I am concerned about your delay in completing the [describe work] contracted for the above property.

Before I accepted your quote you assured me the work would be completed by [date]. Now [period of time] later it is still not finished. [Detail what remains to be done].

I cannot wait any longer for you to complete this contract.

Please finish the work within [include reasonable time] from the date of this letter or I shall have to consider our contract at an end. I will then have the work done by another tradesperson and will deduct the cost from the amount owing to you.

Yours sincerely

Point of Law

If the time a job takes is important to you - and it usually is - you can make a completion date part of a contract. Always agree on a time before a job starts. Remember, reasonable allowance must be made for bad weather if it is an outside job and for extras you may ask to be done once the job is under way.