Trouble with the electrician / tolerance range?!

Well, there is a contract. It can be terminated due to gross incompetence in delivering the required performance.... or it can be dissolved by mutual agreement. Simply not paying is not an option.

This has nothing to do with tolerance anymore, here one can assume that the rest was done just as carelessly. So a professional execution can certainly be doubted. In this case, I wouldn’t pay anything. Even after being asked, nothing essential has changed.

That's exactly what I'm afraid of. If one slot is crooked, okay, but not a single one straight?! To be honest, I don’t want him to continue working anymore. Since he started, I’ve only had a bad feeling... and that probably won’t change.

I will discuss everything with my partner later and possibly impose a work stoppage starting tomorrow. Even though I’m an amateur when it comes to electricity, it seemed wrong from the start.

Do you think I could simply terminate the working relationship due to the defects, or do I need an expert?

Now you just have to calculate how fast and for what price you can get another company... are you under time pressure? If not, I would look for someone else.

Unfortunately, we do have some. So far we were even ahead of schedule (it should be more or less finished by the end of March), but this will probably set us back. But better that than regretting it for decades because the dining table lamp is not above the table or the light switches are all not at the same height, etc...

Well, there is a contract. It can be terminated due to gross inability to provide the required service.... or it can be dissolved by mutual agreement. Simply not paying is not an option.

Dissolving or terminating, okay...
But how are you supposed to bill the "performed" service when the electrician talked more than he worked?!

What difference does it make whether the slots are straight or crooked? They must run horizontally or vertically within a tolerance between the connections, switches, sockets, etc. After plastering, you can no longer see anything and you only roughly know where they run anyway. So I find your fuss about it exaggerated.

It is different if visible switches, etc. are not straight, parallel, or in the place where they should be. I would have that corrected. If that happens frequently, then I would also send the craftsman home.

I don’t think an expert witness is appropriate at the moment. You pay for out-of-court expert witnesses yourself anyway.

But the complaints must be properly documented and verifiably brought to the attention of the company owner.

I generally think the idea of a work stoppage is a good cut, but I would rather ban the individual employee from access and only after prior notice with justification to his boss. For example, due to incorrigibility regarding what he should do where and how. I would possibly pay an advance on the service based on an estimate of how many man-hours that might be, but only once you kick him out. Whatever you give away is gone. The timing can also – if nothing is said about the slow work – quite possibly come from the guild chairman.

The guild exerts a certain group pressure; its chairman can be either sociable or also technically top-notch, you actually don’t know. But after inspection, he will be very cautious about recommending a fool to you. And he will approach your electrician.

Best regards Gabriele

I also think, involve the [Innungsmeister]. Hopefully, he is not the boss of the [Schiefschlitzer]. K.