Poor work, endless delays, and lies
Hiring Bau UK for two jobs was a total nightmare.
We dealt with more than a month of delays and cancellations, poor workmanship and errors, and absolutely zero accountability or acknowledgement of any of the issues. The company doing our heat pump has had to get involved to chase John and try to get him to do what we agreed he would.
We asked John about the bad reviews they have online before hiring him and he managed to give me sufficient excuses to make it seem he hadn’t done anything wrong... Now, after hiring him, it’s clear this is a pattern of behaviour and we had the exact same issues others have described.
When we originally hired Bau UK, we were very clear that we had a deadline for the work to be completed and were guaranteed it would be. However, after drilling holes in our outer walls, the insulation was not actually installed for 5.5 weeks. This means that we had rain getting into our walls and the house was much colder... during an energy crisis! They also left a huge pile of rubbish on our garden during this entire time.
During this time, we heard every excuse, including that John had somehow failed to notice an entire wall of our house, meaning that he would need to get scaffolding. I wasted many days when I was told they would come, only to keep chasing all day with little reply and only realising they weren’t coming when I had not heard from them by the end of the day. Many delays were due to (we were told) waiting for deliveries for things they needed to do our insulation, in addition to other jobs that needed to get done despite being told they were coming to ours... but we heard every other excuse as well.
The main phone number does not work – no one answers or calls back and the main email is only responded to when they give an invoice; they ignored all our other communications. Everything goes through John and when he doesn’t have good news, he tends to stop replying. For the last two weeks he ignored nearly all of my calls and once only responded to my texts after he accidentally sent me a text meant for someone else...
Worst of all, the work itself was done very poorly and messily. There is literally insulation pouring into my living room, bedroom, office and all over my front and back gardens. It is everwhere. They overfilled one wall so there is a large crack going down it now. The bricks that were replaced were done so messily that there is now grout all over the front of the house (even one of his workers described John’s work on this as very poor.)
For the loft insulation, the boards are inserted with two or three screws (despite the legs stating they need eight) and in some cases the single top screw doesn’t even go into the loft leg, so they are completely unattached!
When raising all of these issues, all we got were endless excuses and defensiveness. We have sent multiple emails which have been ignored, demanding full payment to receive the certificates we need to prove the work was completed.
In my experience of dealing with John, he lied to me many, many times and even when caught in a lie, he still doubled down. He also seemed to only care about or acknowledge inconvenience to himself and never once acknowledged or apologised for the issues. Customer service (or even common decency) were non-exist. He even tried to claim to trustpilot that he doesn't know what I'm taking about / that I'm a customer (despite me having lots of proof to the contrary, hence why the review is still here...)
He also took every opportunity to try to take on more work, including giving us very incorrect information about a window we needed replaced (thank goodness we didn’t hire him for that!) Even other workers who were here at the same time said he was very rude and arrogant with them and were shocked by his behaviour.
Since he has refused to acknowledge any issues or take any responsibility for his company, he also refused to give us any compensation for the huge cost of all the delays to us (not to mention the time and stress) and the poor work. We are having to file a formal complaint against his company.