Family ‘ruined’ after builder pocketed £62,000 and left their home in tatters | Y057726 | 2024-04-02 11:08:01
Family 'ruined' after builder pocketed £62,000 and left their home in tatters | Y057726 | 2024-04-02 11:08:01
A contractor is accused of skipping off with tens of hundreds of pounds for unfinished work at a family's house.&
Danielle and Andrew Duffy, who reside in a three-bedroom property in Rochdale with their three youngsters, say the ordeal has 'completely destroyed us each financially and mentally.'
That they had agreed to pay £71,000 for a double-storey extension to the constructing, handing over roughly £62,000 of the money to Nuera Development Ltd only to receive an e mail not lengthy after saying the agency had gone into administration.&
The couple have since been advised completion of the work would require an extra £45,000, and say they're unable to contact the corporate's boss, Michael Ashley Wooden.&
Speaking with MailOnline, Danielle stated: 'He has taken every penny that we personal from us.&
'We had been saving for five years to assist pay for the work to be executed.&
'We have now needed to scrimp and scrape and missed out on holidays to assist pay for this.
'We managed to save lots of £15,000 and then remortgaged the home for the remainder.
'We've got not lived in our house for over a yr now. Thankfully, my mother-in-law allow us to have her residence, whereas she lived elsewhere nevertheless it was only imagined to be for a most of 16 weeks.
'She has been sensible however, clearly, needs to move again residence. It has been a nightmare for everybody.'
The extension was initially planned in order that the couple's daughters Chloe and Sophie, 14 and 13, might have their own bedrooms.&
Danielle stated: 'My eldest daughter is autistic, and her sister is suspected of getting autism and ADHD, so we determined to extend it so they might have their own area.
'I'm so embarrassed. I have by no means requested for monetary help in my life. All the things we have now, we've worked onerous for.
'We work to offer an honest life for our youngsters, and Michael Wooden has destroyed this.'
She added: 'I've my eldest daughter blaming herself for what has happened. She informed me that if she didn't have autism, we wouldn't have had the work finished and wouldn't be in this mess.
'That is heart-breaking. She cries herself to sleep at night time.'
A representative for the agency advised the newspaper: 'So far the value of works completed at the Duffy residence totals a worth of £59,600.&
'There's additionally a stability remaining on the full invoice generated of approximately £5,000 which is able to contribute to nearly all of remaining works to their venture.
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'Nuera Development LTD was pressured into the liquidation process in Late November 2023 as a result of a business contract failing to pay a substantial stability owed.
'Nuera sympathise with the state of affairs and has ensured any supplies stored with ourselves have been returned and can proceed to assist the Duffys where attainable.'
They added: 'Nuera is actively looking for potential avenues of compensation to help in the direction of the completion beneath the circumstances.'
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