ACT Govt issues warning about a dodgy tradesman

Wayne is still in business and trading as ACT Gutters a& Fencing ABN 46 874 061 901. I wish I had found this earlier – its not for lack of trying. I recently had work done and I obviously had more skills and knowledge of the task than he or his workers. Their lack of the right tools for the job was also an issue. At least had the bulk of the job done but needed to make my own corrections. I paid but withheld a couple of hundred dollars until the job was completed and sent an sms to hopefully remind him it was outstanding. Numerous calls unanswered and no mail address. I’m going to need another contractor to replace the wrong skylights in a patio, which Wayne had promised to supply.

If you have a current agreement, don’t take your eyes off them. The workers mean well but Wayne’s project management and close enough is good enough attitude prevails.

Actually, I only found this thread because I was delivered (Charnwood Area) multiple copies of a pamphlet for Premier Fencing (and a number of other businesses) and wanted to let them know I wasn’t happy about it….

Truelocal lists Premier Fencing’s address as
Narrabundah, ACT, 2604

And googling the phone number on the brochure finds links to a sale on Trading Post for a boat in Bateman’s Bay….

It seems Mr Kelly is back. He’s just recently done a mail drop in Wanniassa – surprisingly still trading under Premier Fencing. Probably a good time to let the uninitiated know about his past.

door to door again … the failed telemarketers from Bombay are doing the northside rounds “not selling” kid sponsorships. He rattled on for a couple ofminutes in god-only-knows what language. But he understood “no”. Maybe I should have asked him to paint the house number …. but I do like the semi-naked bimbos flogging Putus (that was funny in my head).

A current affair would have a field day with this bloke

Haha nice one Evil

Yes Thumper, it’s amazing to see how ‘voluntary’ people become when you apply a blowtorch to their genitalia.

So, if you convince this guy to ‘voluntarily’ give the money back, then all is sweet 😉

These are deemed to be “civil” matters. They have to take the offender to court themselves if they want justice as they voluntarily handed over their cash. It wasn’t taken off them or stolen. Fine line I realise but thats the law.

Hey,
What kind of laws do we have. This idiot can get away with this with no problem from the authorities? Outragoues! Does anybody know why the police cant get involved. His clearly ‘stealing’ peoples money. Isnt that a crime? I eagerly await someones reply 🙂

Don’t worry Thumper, at my ‘ripe old age’, I’m a grumpy old man too!

I blame hip-hop culture. Offenze, yo.

DMD,

‘Offence’, not ‘offense’ DMD 😉

Actually, it seems to me that the incorrect spelling of certain words is getting worse. I read the word ‘defence’ in the CT on the weekend as ‘defense’.

I must be a grumpy old man…

Yeah its weird though! These lunatics always seem to drive quite normally when I’m in the blue n white mobile. Then I drive home from a long shift and every second driver is doing something moronic.

Hmmm……….

Punching salesmen is never a serious violent offense, it’s a civil duty.

It’s a worry that policing is become a “by the numbers” excercise. It’s a shame. although from what I’ve observed in Canberra, it doesn’t come as a surprise. Lunatics behaving like psycopaths on the roads, and they get away with it…. unless they go a few KMs too fast, of course!

Hey don’t I know it! I am actually “proud” of my lousy arrest statistics. Call me old fashioned but I don’t think pure arrests give an accurate figure in policing. I could go out and find someone to arrest most shifts for relatively minor offensives, drunk in public being the most obvious one and look great in management but in reality I would not be “cleaning up the streets”, just looking for trouble.

It can be frustrating working in a culture where someone that has high arrest statistics is deemed to be doing a better job then someone that does not. I’m more inclined to make sure rowdy drunks, people peeing in public or people involved in minor fights jump in a taxi and go home for the evening rather then spending the night in the City Watch House.

Although for serious violent offenses I give no quarter…

Derek’s don’t run !

Yeah, they stole my ideas..

or was that my brain…

shouldnt that read no-idea generation Mael?