Select Windows (59 Bradshaw Rd, Tottington, Bury) recently fitted some windows for us.
They were fitted quickly and efficiently by pleasant workers. Unfortunately the front door
was fitted by the director of the firm Julian Stevens and that's where our problem started.
The first problem was a serious draught. Julian would never admit that he could feel the
draught and when I pointed out that there was an emptly channel around the door he said
that he had fitted many doors of this type and the empty channel was normal. He even said
that fitting anything into this channel would nullify the guarantee. After 3 attempts to fix the
draught and only because of my insistence, he contacted the firm who supplied the door.
They sent a pleasant representative who immediately said he could feel a draught and pointed
out that the channel around the door should have been filled with wool fibre. He fitted the fibre
in a few minutes and apologized for his firm's mistake in not having fitted it before it left the
factory. So the mistake was the firm's but if Julian had fitted many of these doors before, why
didn't he notice that the fibre was missing ? Especially as I had brought it to his attention.
Even though the door manufacturers were at fault, they dealt with the matter immediately and
pleasantly, two factors that were missing from all dealings with Julian concerning complaints
about his work.
The next problem was much more serious. The door that Julian replaced had wet rot, this was
the reason for its replacement. Julian admits that he knew about the rot but did not check for
rot in the immediately adjacent wood to which he fitted the new door. When I contacted him
about this problem he initially said that he would put it right. However, when I later contacted
him about his lack of response, he said that he'd decided that he was not going to fix it and that
it was "my problem". When I informed him of what the Citizens Advice Bureau had told me he
told me I was being stupid and hung-up the phone on me. He then phoned me back and again
hung-up the phone on me. Since then I have been unable to get him to answer the phone and
he has ignored a letter I sent to him by recorded delivery. The Citizens Advice Bureau said that
he had failed to use reasonable care and skill. Julian is simply not trustworthy.