Terrible experience - avoid quote builders ltd
Terrible experience of a builder. I would never recommend and advise buyer beware. Make sure you register the works with a trusted body to avoid getting scammed like we did if unfortunate enough to not yield to the warning.
We trusted Quote Builders ltd with a major renovation of our home, but unfortunately the owner James (Jay) was inexperienced and bit off more than he could chew, leaving our house abandoned, exposed, a huge mess and now with rodent issues. It was later revealed to us that the property he used to demonstrate his previous work was done by another builder, so he used completely fake and false pretences to get the job.
Additionally he had not been paying the majority of his contractors, causing them to walk off the job. He later blamed us, the customer, due to a request to pay 5% of the costs in cash even though over 95% was paid via bank transfer + VAT. He will respond to this review with that saying we didn’t want to pay some VAT for a minuscule amount and that’s what caused his issues, but does not excuse the way our home was abandoned after paying over 95% of the total cost of the project. We even had to pay for our own skip and pay the scaffolders ourselves as he owed outstanding balances and they refused to come. When confronted to complete the job within 28 days or return money paid upfront for work outstanding and incomplete, the owner then demanded all monies upfront to complete the work including asking for extras that had either not been agreed, already paid for or not yet completed. He continually uses tricks to get you to pay for him to start the next phase without completing previous phases due to what we now understand to be cash flow issues and inexperience in the building trade for works of this nature. We also learnt from his contractors that this is not the first time.
With young kids in the house our extension was left with no roof coverings, no kitchen, electrical dangers, exposed and incomplete bricking, uneven flooring, health and trip hazards, exposed drainage and dangerous equipment left around the place in reach of children.
We have now started court proceedings to claim back money and sue for damages to our home. Do not use.








