After missing out on a medal at the Winter Olympics in South Korea earlier this year, speed skater Elise Christie seems to have suffered yet another blow – this time in the hands of rogue builders.
According to the papers, the athlete was left high and dry after contractors walked off a job to extend her home in Nottingham after she had paid the full amount up front. Once again, the construction industry gets bad press, leaving people to assume that all builders are there solely to rip homeowners off.
I’m no apologist for the cowboys, but we hardly help ourselves sometimes. The glaring fact in this story is that Ms Christie paid for the entire project in advance. But why?
Show me any other situation where you’d commission complex work or buy a major item, such as a new car, and pay for it prior to seeing what you are getting. It’d be madness, yet for some reason we have convinced ourselves that builders should be paid beforehand.
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