njwestover

Hi!

On Saturday April 15th 2017 we lost a car key with a moose key ring on it in the Copleston Rd leading into Hayes Grove and Besant Place area.

If anyone picked the key up for safe keeping please contact me.

Thanks!

Usually I wouldn't bother logging onto a forum to be negative about anyone but as I rely on this forum so much I feel compelled to update the thread on Nick at Minns & Langton.

Having read so many glowing reports on ED Forum I contacted Nick in Dec 2014 as I had a few handyman jobs in my bathroom.

The bad stuff:

* having to call numerous time to go over the same list of jobs before he could give me a date for the work.

* him randomly turning up on a different day than agreed (luckily I was home)

* waiting until 7.30pm to tell me I needed to be there the following morning as they weren't finished yet (hard to contact my boss at 7.30pm)

* not turning up until 10am the following morning as he already had plans and would be 'letting someone down' if he cancelled

* putting a hole in my wall when removing the bath panel - he did fill it and let me know about the damage

* no silicone around the bath tub and new bath panel so it wasn't waterproof and we couldn?t shower

* filling a scratch in my bath tub with the wrong filler so it came off within a few days

* damaging a few tiles when removing bath panel and not telling me (even denying it was him who did the damage)

* not getting through the entire list of jobs ? not even close

The good stuff:

* I have a new bath panel albeit without silicone

* I have a new shower screen (with silicone!)

* I have new silicone around the top of the bath

* he finally agreed to replace the tiles (his time for free) if I could find some tiles which matched

I've spent the last few weekends finishing the DIY in my bathroom myself.

All in all I had a horrible experience with Nick and his team. He told me a few times how he let other people down to prioritise coming back to finish the work at my place. I really didn't feel like a priority from the outset and in the end didn't arrange for him to come back for a third time to fix the tiles as even booking time with him was such a long process which I found frustrating. I appreciate this was before Christmas and a really busy time for him but it was just a mess from start to finish and the only reason I persevered was because I read such great reviews about his work on this forum.

I wish I'd had the type of service many others seem to have on this forum but it's important I leave this feedback to create a balanced view for others to consider their options when hiring a handyman.

I need access to my roof for a couple of days so need a scaffolding company to provide this on a residential property in East Dulwich.

Any recommendations?

Thanks!