Craftsman charges travel costs multiple times

Construction expert, are you serious?

The craftsman gives a price for a job that takes three hours WITHOUT any indication of additional costs for even a single trip.

Why do you even have to pay for a trip? The craftsman knows the place of service, so he presumably gives a complete offer including travel or explicitly excludes the costs in his offer.

Why does the customer have to point this out in the order?

Do I also have to exclude paying for the master’s mother’s funeral, maybe that somehow relates to the installation of my sanitary facilities, but it’s not explicitly stated in the craftsman’s offer that these costs are included!?

Morning

"to carry out the bathroom installation according to effort"
The installer does spend trips to the construction site

"the last delivery"
From this I deduce that the installer has already carried out installation work on other days
in addition to the original order, without charging travel costs proportionally.

So the foreman is not a penny-pincher and in your place, I wouldn't be either.


Olli

Construction expert, are you serious?

Yes.

Do I also have to exclude paying for the burial of the master’s mother, maybe that somehow also has to do with the installation of my sanitary facilities, but it’s not explicitly stated in the craftsman’s offer that these costs are included!?

Sorry - even with German as my native language - I don’t understand what you want to tell (write to) me …?

Rhenish greetings

What is so difficult about that?
The craftsman makes an offer:
Installation of sanitary equipment: EUR 150.00
no indication of additional costs.

Then comes the invoice:
Installation of sanitary equipment: EUR 150.00
Travel to the construction site: 2x EUR 150.00
Invoice amount: EUR 450.00

The numbers are for illustration purposes only.

According to your statement above, this seems to be okay because one did not explicitly exclude additional costs such as travel in the order confirmation.

What's so difficult about that?

The somewhat "wooden" phrasing, possibly.

According to your statement above, that seems to be okay because no explicit additional costs such as travel expenses were excluded in the order confirmation.

A more effective approach would be to ask what exactly was agreed upon. For that, one must know that there are also "unspoken" agreements, and precisely contract law for work services derives a claim to payment even if this was not explicitly agreed upon.

Concretely, nothing can be "judged" here at all because we simply have far too little information about the actual course of awarding and performing the order.

However, there are quite a few good arguments as to why a double trip would never have been agreed upon by the client if he had known that the work could not be fully completed on the agreed day. Presumably, he would have then chosen the next day as the execution day, precisely to save the double trip.

Also, the contractor cannot simply transfer his own logistical planning costs to the client without further agreement. It would be questionable, however, whether, for example, additional material required for complete assembly, which was previously unknown and therefore had to be procured, would be an exception. That is then the standard excuse.

Would be interested to see how this turns out here