Ian van der Riet aka KSA Building Projects

<p>Having seen the other complaints on Hellpeter about this man, I must add the following:</p> <p> </p> <p>Apart from the other shocking Helopeter complaints, I have been informedy the person that referred Ian vd Riet to me, that they have managed to get a trace on him as Mr vd Riet owes him R100,000 and that he will proceed to lay charges against him. My personal individual and his business, KSA Bulding projects, is the following:</p> <p> </p> <p>I signed an agreement for him to rennovate two bathrooms and paid a 65% deposit, which was an unneccessarily high deposit, considering that it turned out I had to purchase most of the fittings. The work of gutting one bathroom was commenced with great enthusiasm by very uns****ed labour that were clearly foreign and doubtfully legal. But very soon the nonsense started. First he started excuses that his workers wouldn't come, for instance, becuase it was raining, then he spun me a sob story about his son being in hospital and he asked for another 25% payment, when they had hardly gotten very far and progress was soon just one day of work a week if I was lucky and never ending excuses when I called him.</p> <p> </p> <p>Him and his staff were also very careless about security (failure to close gate, lock front door) and something was stolen from my property.</p> <p> </p> <p>Another matter of deep concern was the state he appeared to be in when he came to my house one Monday - He appeared to have been on drugs as there was something very wrong with his eyes and he could not even remember whether I was his client or whether I was referred to him by someone.</p> <p> </p> <p>I felt so uncomfirtable with even allowing him back on my property or being involved with something important to the value of my house, that I could not sleep at night until I decided to fire him, despite the fact that he already had 90% of the money for the project. I got a reputable company to finish the first bathroom that was half complete and the difference in workmanship and professionalism was night and day.</p> <p> </p> <p>We agreed that he would finsish the other bathroom and do other work for the money he already had, but that was ultimately just met with excuses and delays and I had to get someboby else to rennovate the second bathroom.</p> <p> </p> <p>I failed to get full value out of Mr. van der Riet for the money I paid him becuase he avoided calls / messages after a while and when I did I always got excuses about broken bakkies etc, but it was also not of enough value to get lawyers to throw good money after bad.</p> <p> </p> <p>The only way to contract bulders that operate this way, is to pay zero deposit and only make fair progress payments.....but then you still take a gamble on the quality workmanship you are going to get. Better to rather go with large reputable companies.</p>