I don't really now why you are so insistent on the quote being posted, and I don't think it is necessay at this stage. I just wanted some insight into whether it is feasible to also issue proceedings against the wife as the money was paid into her bank account. The address of the registered office is not their home address.

I received the quote with the company name not a receipt.

The builders name is Alex Aird

Sorry, do you mean the receipts of my payments The company is Swift Building & Home Improvements Ltd

Thank you for your response. I already know that the property is a housing association property. I have already taken photographs and have historic recording on the ring doorbell, up to the date they dismantled it in August. I am also taking pictures each day of the work the new builders have completed on a daily basis for reference. I have already spoken with the new builders and they are prepared to provide me a summary of the the work completed, and their estimate of the materials used and the cost. I have asked the previous builder on 4 different occasions for the list of material and the costs, which he has failed to provide, so I prepareed a spreadsheet and counted and measured each piece of timber (mostly only timer used) sourced them on 3 different websites and they costed them on the avergage price. I have the chronology of events in bullet list format already, I just thought it best to put in more details in this post. We mainly communicated by SMS, and I have obtained software to pull all the messages including date & time into a PDF. My main area of focus is his wife, as he asked for the money to b paid into her account, not a business account, and from what I have gathered from company house records she is not a director of the company, however her name was added as company secretary after my deposit was paid, so I feel I can justifbly included her in any proceedings, as by requesting the money be paid to her account, he made her a party to this. Can you just let me know your thoughts on this element

I got a quote from a builder to erect a basic timber leanto on the back of my property, and do some remedial work to an already existing brick shed. The area for the leanto already had decking but this was rotting so was to be removed. The builder is a part time firman, and is a near neighbour of my daughter, and semed a friendly enough person. When he came to view the job in May 20, I explained I was not looking to start the works until begining of August 20, so I could comfortabley get the funds together. He mentioned he would be free to start on 1st July 20 as had no work booked in for that period. I explained that I am disabled with a variety of consitions included limited mobility. I run a business from home from my loft office and wanted the leanto so I could have a dedicated space downstairs to work from hen needed. He sent me a quote via email. The quote was in a Ltd company name, but had no address on it and had a start date of 1st July 20. I agreed in the end to this start date as he said he was free. Total quoted for all works was £10,720 with a deposit of £4390 to be paid immediately for materials to start on 01/07/20. He sent me some pictures of garden rooms he had recently completed, and I liked the idea of having UPVC cladding for minimal maintenance and asked how much more this would be, and was advised £1730, so I paid a deposit of £6120 on 01/09/20. The bank account details I was provided to pay the deposit was the builders wifes account. he said the company was new. He sent me an email on 30/06/20 saying he was collecting ALL the materials on 01/07/20 and would start on 02/07/20, then he was delayed as was let down by some suppliers. Work did not actually start until 17/07/20 after I requetsed a refund due to breach of contract. They arrived and took town the old decking. there has been constant delays, excuses and outright lies and I again requested a cancellation of the contract and refund as of part of my money as they would turn up one day, then nothing, citing, supply issues, workers being sick, his child being sick, etc. As he had assured us everything would be ready befoe 15/08/20 we booked a small gathering for a barbecue for my stepdaughters 21st and made the builder aware. We requested a full schedule of the works to be done each day and a completion date, which he gave in writing as 13/08/20, stating that the perspecx roof would be fitted on 11/08/20. Needless to say this did not happen, he claims there were supply issues with the perspex sheets and he ended up putting up a gazebo in the half completed frame of the building on the morning of 15/08/20 as no roof was on and I was concerned for rain, and confirming that the sheets for the roof would be dleivered the following week. Well the builder went on holiday on 20/08/20, 2 workrs came on 20/08/20 and 21/08/20 to put up tarpaulin as still no roof had arrived, no cladding had arrived and a list of other works ahd not been done. On the morning of 22/08/20 we discovered we had a leak as thay had damaged a pipe when putting up the tarpaulin. I called and sent a text message to the worker and also texted the builder who gave me his plumbers number, who never came to fix the leak. on 27/08/20 I text builder again as still not heard anything form anyone and he said he was back in the country the next day and would come and see what still needed to be done and get things sorted. He never arrived. On 01/09/20 I texted the builder who said he was at work the next day and my job would be on. I asked him to explain exactly what that meant as I needed the work done as a priority, He said, plumber coming today, cladding fitting tomorrow, roof panels Thursday. No plumber arrived that day. I contacted builder the next day, he said they were not coming as team member was sick, but he would get plumber there today. i told him if no one came today, we would get someone else in to do works as I was getting bitten by mosquites from the stagnnant water. No one came that day or the next. I decided I would put the remaming works on a bulder site to get estimates to do the remaining works and then would give the builder a deadline which I did. I spoke to the builder on 08/09/20 when he called to let me know thta he had again chased the roof panels, but he wanted me to sign a waiver about the roof. I told him no, he had told me on numberous occassions that he had ALL the supplies, he know what was need from the start, and he had lied on previous occassions as he now admitted he had only ordered the roof panels on 21/08/20. he was however saying he had ordered bespoke panels to fit the roof, which were not necessary, discussed or agreed with me. I told him that he had 1 week to complete all the remaining works or I would give the job to someone else and would reques a refund of monies as by now I had paid a total of £9655. All payments to his wifes account. The builder called me on 15/09/20 to let me know he had been assured the roof panels were being delivred on that Thursday 17/09/20. I told him that was too late. he knew today was the dealine, he had not even bothered to acknowledge my email and as he clearly was not in a position to complete ALL the works by the end of that day, I would be employing alternate builders to start the next day 16/09/20, which I did. Sorry the post is so long, but I wanted to give the history. I have sent a letter guaranteed delivery addressed to the builder, his wife and the company to their home address asking for a reund of £4500 withing 7 day. I plan to take legal proceedings against ALL 3. Although the quote had the company name on it there is no address or contact information on it, all communication came from his personal email address, he requested that the money be paid into his wife's account. His wife is not a director of the company, she did become a company secretary on 22/06/20, so I believe I rightfully can request she repay the money as she had to right to it. He has refused to send a breakdown of materials actually used, which is all I am prepared to pay for. He has said I am not due a refund as he has paid for the materials. He has not fitted the cladding, or done any of the other works, which could have been completed whilst waiting for the roof panels. Incidentally, the new builders saterted on 16/09/20, and obtained the same roof panels that morning and by Friday 18/09/20 had fitted the roof, cladded one side of the building, fitted, UPVC doors to leant and brick shed, fitted and 2 UPVC wndows to leanto. Your advice regarding the status of the wife would be most helpful