Sometimes you really wanna buy something. I mean, we get influenced to buy stuff all the time. We scrape up the money, all excited, ready to buy the new shiny thing that will make us happy (for a total of 1 day).
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You should really not test the patience of contractors and pay them up front or else you run the risk of them coming to your house and promptly tearing down their work
Image credits:Terasos Ara
A client had bought a terrace for $4.3k but 3 weeks after the work was done, he was short over $1k and wouldn’t offer any solutions to the workers
Not only do they make terraces so perfect they wouldn’t look out of place in your Sims 4 mega-mansion, but they also do things like steel supports for roofs, fences – pretty much anything that would make your backyard go from sad and carefree to bad and boujee.
The terraces are a treat too, using wood and wood-plastic composite that are not only more durable, but come in a variety of styles and colors – pearly white, burnt dark, lacquered for that classic wood look – they’ve got it all.
There’s only one catch, though. You’ve got to pay for all of it. I know, it came as a shock to me too. Who knew that custom woodwork, expert craftsmanship, and good materials cost money?
Not seeing any other options available to him, Deividas revved his saw and took it to the newly-installed deck, making sure that he’s not the only loser in the situation
Revving his saw, he began swiftly undoing his beautiful work. Just 3 cuts and the deck already looks way worse. Not to mention that the wood at the cuts is no longer protected from the elements and will begin rotting without replacement or some serious aftercare, especially in the rainy Lithuanian autumn.
In a great display of his cup of patience running over, the builder essentially said “if I go in the negative, he (the customer) also goes in the negative,” referring, once again, to his lack of payment for the services.
Image credits:TerasosAra
In his 9 years of work, the contractor had never done anything even remotely similar and he says he hopes not to have to do it ever again
Although, if you talked to some builders, you’d realize that going unpaid for work does happen and with startling frequency, Deividas, in his 9 years of work, has only had to do something like this just this once.
He mentioned toone Lithuanian publicationthat he doesn’t want to ruin anything any more and hopes that he won’t have to make any more cautionary videos like this one any more. He doesn’t appreciate how viral the video went and is willing to bet that the customer is probably not feeling all too well about it either.
3 swift applications of the saw’s blade and the deck was pretty much ruined, the repairs for which would cost over $1.7k, along with the $1k debt
Although the method is certainly unconventional, it has paid off for Deividas. After the reversal of his handiwork, the debtor suddenly reappeared, wanting to solve everything civilly. It is a little bit late for that, but Deividas would like to meet the guy and see what he has to say for himself.
Apparently, the customer would like for the damage to be reversed again so that the deck will once again look like it did when it was freshly built.
It won’t be cheap, though – let’s not forget about the guy’s $1k debt, and fixing the damage would cost about $1735, including removing the old boards, getting new ones and reinstalling them.
Now, instead of the original 4.3k, the debtor will have to pony up a smidge over 6k.
Bored Panda reached out to the company and got some more info — turns out that a Lithuanian company, Valiuta24, has covered the client’s debt for them
Bored Pandasucceeded in reaching out to Terasos Ara and Deividas for a comment about the situation via phone.
It turns out that they’ve gotten a whole bunch of missed calls from the client, who, as mentioned, wants to solve everything peacefully and have the terrace restored. Feels like spitting into the ocean after getting your deck sawed up like that, but better late than never!
They’re unsure what has brought this change on, but our interviewee mentioned that it could be either the influence of upstanding neighbors or they got embarrassed after the video was posted.
Although Deividas has been working in the industry for 9 years now, he hasn’t even heard of colleagues encountering non-paying customers. He also mentioned that it’s quite impossible for a contractor to know if a client has enough money – though any sensible person will have money set aside if they have work to be done.
Watch the original video here:
Contractors going unpaid for their work isn’t an everyday occurrence, but sometimes they have to choose the most extreme option to get to some people
While builders may try to look for a peaceful way out, proud workers who respect their work and take no bull from anyone are certainly liable to pull something like this. Especially if you keep dodging their demands to pay or simply disappear entirely.
Just last month, Bored Panda wrotea piece about landscapersvery satisfyingly ripping up all of their hard work when customers refused to pay, citing dissatisfaction with the work.
“If you’re so very unsatisfied,” the company thought, “we’ll just take our work and be on our merry way,” leaving the front and back yards looking like a bomb had gone off in them.
I feel like there may have been a better solution on the clients’ part, but it just won’t come to me right now. Probably something related to money and paying, though.
Image credits:Alexander van Loon (not the actual photo)
Just last month, Bored Panda wrote a piece about landscapers ripping up entire sheets of sod when a client refused to pay them for putting it down
There are legal ways to solve the problem for contractors, though. A thing known as acontractor’s lien(could also be called a mechanic’s or construction lien) is a claim that they have performed work on a property but not have gotten paid so far.
It’s certainly easier both for the customer and contractor to simply pay up or even work out some kind of payment plan for the debt, instead of going silent and having to file a lien. Most of the time, contractors would rather get to other jobs than engage in a legal battle with you about the money that you just won’t cough up.
There’s always them coming to your property with saws, sledgehammers, and crowbars to make sure that you’ll suffer a similar amount of losses as you’ve just incurred them and no one really wants that.
Image credits:kslicksix
They wouldn’t leave the home unpaid and they couldn’t get through to the customer, so they left her yard looking like a really bad barber’s handiwork
Many praised the landscapers and said that it’s possible to file a contractor’s lien, which is a legal way of solving such disputes
The contractor’s extreme option did work, though, and the customer reached out again, wanting to solve everything and restore the deck
Comments (in Lithuanian) said that Deividas did a good job and that what he did was right. Even other contractors’ business pages chimed in, further supporting him.
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