DO NOT HIRE THIS ****STER!!!

I wish I could give a negative rating, DO NOT HIRE THIS ****STER (under this company name or any other run by BRUCE MUTCH)! We paid Bruce over R32K for a pond renovation that was begun and never completed. From the start Bruce was unreliable, dishonest and totally unprofessional. We are now sitting with a brick and cement shell for our pond extension and do not have the new pump, new filter, fibre-glassing, water feature, glass tank feature, piping and connections, pond chemicals or even any materials (beyond what was used in the brick shell) that we paid for. Meanwhile, despite promising the last time we saw him, that he would be back the next day to continue the job, Bruce has disappeared and never returned. He required a 75% deposit upfront and insisted on immediate payment when we did the EFT's. He then kept on asking us for more and more advances over and above the 75% deposit until we had paid him over R32K. The last straw was when he claimed he lost his car keys and needed another 1K advance to call a locksmith so he could come to site. We paid him that and 20 mins later he claimed his debit orders swallowed the 1K and that he needed more. We had not looked into him beforehand as we found him on Kandua, which supposedly vets the pros it connects you with (a very costly mistake). However, after being ******** we did a Google search and it appears that Bruce has been ****ming people out of money for many years, under at least 3 different company names (you can look up Bruce Mutch here on Hello Peter). We are now having to find someone else to continue the work while Bruce sits somewhere with our money. He is sly in that he starts work with the cheap materials (bricks and cement) and buys none of the expensive materials and then he disappears. Because he's done "some" work, it then becomes a civil case and not a legal one. Please, do not make the same mistake we did and hire Blue Water Pools and Home Improvements or any company run by Bruce Mutch!!! Make sure you hire someone who is accredited with the NSPI (https://www.nspi.co.za/) only (wish we knew about them beforehand).