Stay Far Away From Chris and Handy Boys

I am summarising this story because I don't want to write an essay here. We got Chris and the Handy boys to redo our kitchen. We paid a 70% deposit upfront. The delays and excuses started from day 1. At first, we thought nothing of it, but it then got worse and worse. When they were actually here doing the work, they seemed professional but then after removing our entire kitchen and redoing the floor, they just never came back. Chris just gave us excuse after excuse and never came back to do the work. He lead us on for a long time. I still have all the messages, emails, voice notes, proof of payments, signed invoices and pictures from Chris and the Handy Boys work over this period. We eventually lived without a kitchen for almost 3 months. Chris removed our kitchen on the 19th of Aug and eventually, after contracting another company to complete the job at a huge loss, our kitchen was finally installed on the 8th November Almost 3 months without a kitchen! All I can say after reading other comments from other people is, that Chris and the Handy Boys will not finish a job. They will take a large deposit, do about 15% of the work and then just simply make excuses until they never return. People always ask why I don't take them to small claims court, but it's not that easy. Its time, it's money and even if I get a ruling, that doesn't mean that I will get any money back. It's not worth it, unfortunately. So all I can do is share my store with this community and try and help other people from making the same mistake I made.