Hi Everyone
I am new to the forum and would appreciate some help with the issue at hand. Basically what happened was, I have just moved into a new property with a crappy garden full of weeds and a messed up lawn. So instead of clearing it myself, I decided to engage a gardener to do the job. Sounds simple, so after going through a whole lists of quotations I settled on this gardener who sounds like he knows what he is doing and promised that he is so good he would not take any payments until the job is done to my satisfaction. Sounds great so far.
The job he was suppose to do was to clear the flower bedding of weeds and lay down a layer of mulch to slow them down and reseed my lawn. On the day the job was "completed" he assured me that despite only sowing seeds in patches around the lawn the grass will grow to cover the entire area and now that the weed has been clear and mulch laid, the bedding would be weeds free for a good while. But within days the weeds started popping through the mulch and the bald patches on the lawn never grew. I pushed aside the layer of mulch and noticed that the weeds were not actually removed but rather cut to a length so that they can be hidden under the mulch. After writing tonnes of complain email to him, he finally got 2 guys to come round and re-seed the lawn a second time but did not do anything about the mulch. At this point I was required to and made 50% of the payment. Now the entire mulch is covered in weeds, he is accusing me of being unreasonable and that I intended no to pay him his money from the very beginning. In his replies he has pushed all the responsibility onto me saying that I took the cheaper option and not maintaining the garden. He also made clear that he would not do anymore work to rectify the issue. Can someone tell me what I should do? (sorry I know the post is a little long)