Agreed Price

[tamborine]

Price agreed & paid. On completion of work am asked for extra costs, doubling the agreed price. At no time during the work was I warned of extra charges.

Do I have to pay?

[jackthehat]

What work?
Did you have anything in writing?

[Quoi]

If you didnt approve any additional work to the original contract then I would say no.
If I thought it was a fair extra charge then I would probably consider it.

[tamborine]

Property survey, price agreed in writing.

[jackthehat]

What works were actually carried out......what type of survey was it?
What finished 'product' were you presented with?

[barmy]

If you have signed paperwork stating price and what will be delivered for that money then the supplier can't not charge extra.

If you have a contract check for a clause saying that any extra work is chargeable after discussion with purchaser.

[tamborine]

Jth, ive received 3 plans that cover my floor of 10x12ft..lol. With 3 different colored lines for site. It took 3mts to get result.

[jackthehat]

So, it was a land survey and you were supposed to get a pack of annotated drawings showing the land?

What was the agreed price?
Why has the Surveyor increased the price?
What did you instruct him to do.....initially?

[tamborine]

Surveyor was asked to prove my ownership of land as my deeds, that are not as current Ordnance Survey maps.

[jackthehat]

What excuse has he made for the increase in charges?

[tamborine]

He says he had to sub contract to specialist with laser beam gadget. Original quote was £2k but now doubled.

[jackthehat]

He should have been aware that he would have to do that, and he should have made allowances for it in his quote to you.

What wording did he use in the original agreement?

[tamborine]

Just a letter to confirm price. No mention of lasers, nor did I see any.

[jackthehat]

You really don't make things easy......

What services did he agree to provide for the price?!?

[tamborine]

There wasnt a detailed contract, just the letter accepting the work. Subsequently, he wanted trees felled, that I refused, as trees are used for barbed wire fencing.

Ordnance surveys dont show trees & am required to post & rail fencing. A thin line of fencing will not protect nor contain my livestock.

[jackthehat]

Accepting *what* work?
Was he instructed to determine the boundary and plot it on top of existing OS maps and send it off to LR?
Was he instructed just to determine LR and produce scaled plans for your use?

Unless you say 'exactly' what he was instructed to do and how, he could argue that he provided 'his' bit and in order to do that he had to sub-out some work....a fact of which you were aware.

[jackthehat]

Sorry, the second question should read....Was he instructed just to determine the boundary and produce scaled plans for your use?

[tamborine]

Who is LR? A development application as drawn up to council encroaches my land. Developer objects to my encroachment objection, hence the survey.

[woofgang]

LR is the Land Registry.

[tamborine]

LR land registry. Developer plans on OSurvey thin line whereas there is a 20ft deep boundary of fruit & hard wood trees. As established on purchase of my property.

[jackthehat]

LR = Land Registry.
So you need to get your boundary registered/confirmed with Land Registry and then you can tell the Planning Authorities that part of the land the Developer has submitted an application for is yours?

These days most Land Surveyors have their own electronic/laser measuring devices of one sort or another. It may well be that the chap you chose was a one-man band and didn't have the suitable equipment and so had to sub the work out.....but if the agreement states that he will provide the requisite information at an agreed price, then he would have to bear the cost of subbing the work on.....unless there is any wording to the contrary.