Hi. Can anyone recommend legal advice quickly and locally? I have been having a new kitchen installed and it has gone disastrously badly. I have lost confidence in the local builder to provide competent workmen. The final part of the job is to knock out a hole in my external wall to install a new back door. The door is non standard size and has been made to order and has been paid for. It is due to go in in the next few days. The supposedly competent workman is not doing the job and I know the man who is to do the job. He seems to be a jobbing workman but he has not been involved in anything requiring skill. I need to know where I stand legally should something subsequently go wrong with the supporting wall and if it causes problems with my building or the flat above. I need to know what I can ask from the builder in terms of guarantee of his workmanship in view of what has been happening in my kitchen. (Today I have discovered a wall cupboard has been glued on with two dabs of glue and no other fastenings; it peeled away from the wall when I leant on it. I have a small section of boxing around some wires which fell off the wall the first time I put a plug in the socket at the bottom, plus too many more problems!) I am an older woman on her own and I have had three months of anxiety and sleeplessness over this and I think it will be worth my while taking advice before I let someone knock a hole on my supporting wall. Can anyone recommend someone I can consult? Today I have heard that after weeks of inactivity they are proposing to knock the wall out on Friday. Thank you if you know where I can go for advice.
