IFL Home Improvements

Our close neighbour had work done by this company and seemed to be of a good standard, but regretabley without asking my neighbour for his comments, I had them repaint the front, side and back of my small 2 storey cottage and I supplied all the paint. I also had them replace a side roof facia board which I also supplied, this had been torn off in bad weather. My wife and I had to go out for some time and when we returned it was getting dark and the owner was still working on the facia board. Soon after this point they were given the cash for doing the work, unfortunately I could not check their work over as it was now dark. The next morning when I looked over the work I was completely devastated. My side driveway, outside stainless steel wood stove chimney, front path, front and back door steps, our new extension roof slates and wall which cost me over £1000 were covered in paint splashes and there was still areas of old paint on the building they had missed. The new facia board they fitted had been cut wrong and does not fit correctly and has been botched with mastic to try and fill in the 3 inch mess. This will have to be replaced again at an extra charge to ME! to prevent water entering the roof space. After calling them re their workmanship, they came back and attempted to remove the paint from the drive by power washing. The outside chimney still has paint splashes all the way to the roof and will need specialist paint removing agents. The owner would not look at the facia board saying I should have checked this before they left? they did finish off the missed paint work. I had to try and clean the new extension roof slates and the new brickwork as best I could. I have learned a bad lesson in never parting with hard earned cash until the job has been inspected. The work was done in one day on the 30th October 2014. They did 1 hour of power washing preparation a few days earlier.