London
Loft Conversion and Roofing Contractor, General Prestigious Building work carried out to very high standard.
35 yrs experience with plenty of references decades old with old style photos(remember them) as proof. .Church Office and Domestic references and contracts.
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3 customer reviews
Phil
Owner's real name is Gary Higginson, although I have only ever known him under his pseudonym “Gary Higgs”. I originally hired Gary to do two small jobs to the roof of my flat and on completing them successfully, Gary ‘notified me’ of another problem.
He then used a gently-gently approach to gain my trust and once he had this, he advised me that if this job wasn’t done then there would be serious structural implications for the entire flat and that it was incredibly urgent. Over 7 months, with unsightly scaffolding up around the property, we were held at ransom, bullied and essentially blackmailed in order to part with more money. As soon as I began to realize he was a fraudster, I confronted him about the lack of progress on the roof and where all the money I paid him had supposedly gone. I was initially met with aggression but then pretty soon after that, radio silence at which point he refused to speak with me - DONT WORK WITH THIS GUY!!!
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Reply from climbing gary
Phil Hadfield teksystems.com Maxis 2 Western Road Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1RT United Kingdom multiple property owner, his own word’s “I can’t afford all these properties and should sell one” could read “instead I will get you to cover the cost of what I can’t afford” Numerous really difficult jobs done for him praised to the heavens for. Gets a £25,000 job done as priced by a surveyor for £10,000 because after 40 yrs in business you think a contractor might have learned a thing or two. Have photos of damage done to the building by the dormer construction without planning permission and minus the supporting steel beam to rear of the terrace house in Croydon which the photo’s show was causing the collapse that he is saying was never there even though he came out and agreed there was ????Apparently no check was done on this house 75 Clifton Ave. Thornton Heath. Croydon. It was the first one with a dormer window and the owner according to the neighbour was all diy. Apart from his lies regarding all the critisims the real issue was the tenant growing drugs in the dormer conversion which became all of a sudden unaccesable to me. Wonder why ? He was also dealing I suspect as all the shady young men hanging around the house playing there Rastafarian tunes. The aggressive confrontations by the tenant as reported to the owner were ignored and the next step was informing the Police which again was ignored. A smalll fraction of the work was left to be done and over a budget was remaini g on the job. I could have sued as he was breech of contract but that would have involved his honest lovely neighbour Carol who was part owner so I chose not to. I go to work and do not feel I have to call the Police every day incase the drug addict tenant explodes at me ( His family as always are the victim)which he was confronted about. Phil Hadfield of TEKsystems seems to think nothing of lying and cheating to get his own way I would steer clear of this character and if proof is needed photos etc are all available for anyone to view. I am going to now give both these men the same treatment via the internet that they thought nothing of in destroying my reputation without mercy. Different note, The internet seems to be driving away decent tradesmen and detering new ones from entering. We all suffer with this type of conquisador behaviour from these greedy people. Also why work for a trade if you can just take a fee. Time will tell.
IR
Absolutely dreadful service. Gary Higginson (owner / sole trader) performed around half of the work agreed, took most of the money and then refused to finish the job.
We were left with a half-finished roof for almost a year while we tried continually tried to get him to complete the work. When we complained about the quality of some of the work Gary became abusive towards us.
Finally, when it became clear that he had no intention of finishing the work and was happy to simply take our money we were forced to sack him. Gary refused to return any of our money even though large parts of the work remained incomplete so we took him to court and won a CCJ against him. He now owes us over £4,000 and is credit-blacklisted due to his unpaid judgement.
Subsequently we had multiple other roofers inspect the work and quote to finish it. All said the quality of the work was terrible and had to be completely re-done.
We also know multiple other people who have had the same experience with Gary and their reviews can be found on various other sites. Gary has operated under many different company names, primarily Red Bud Roofing in London, Sheffield Roofing Services and GC Roofing (also in Sheffield). Just search for Gary's Red Bud Roofing reviews to see the multiple people that he defrauded.
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Reply from climbing gary
If I respond fully to both these bad reviews it puts me on the defensive and also in the position of providing you the reader with a set of circumstances that amount to a subjective viewpoint via an electronic system which dispenses with any form of justice. The response would always feel inadequate when faced with any such outrage comparable to screaming media headlines such as an alien ate my husband. The reality is far different than portrayed the first so called bad ass mr cage fighter Ian Royle (to ashamed to put his name ) a web design Co Adaptive Consulting Services Ltd now dissolved 2016@ 135 Avenue Rd. London. W3 J 8QJ. His home address. I had previously worked for the former owner consecutive times she had no problem with works we carried out. It’s no surprise his Company is bankrupt(dissolved 2016) he was not very good with money his or the other owners at the building prefering to go on holiday a few times rather than pay his bill’s. The rest is a provable bed of lies. The court judgement has not and will not be paid. I don’t go in for blackmailing not matter whose on the other end. “supermarket justice” 40 years in roofing and only two interestingly enough aggresive males heavly indebited, both lacked integrity and never confronted issues face to face, because they were being devious and had in my opinion either been incapable and immoral or just as in the case of Landlord Phil Hadfield of Clapham, Streatham Croydon and on permanent holiday in the Canary Island a wilful condoner of illegal drugs. These type of customers see a home as an investment and are unable to respect or appreciate the type of work that is involved when purchasing an older lime mortar Victorian building. Inadequate funding does not mean it is ok to pass the responsibilty on to someone else as they found out. I tried reasoning with both these boys but they never responded directly at all. That is all I feel is my responsibilty to address this situation.
Roofing Installation or Replacement
Gary is hard working and a true professional. He has many years experience in roofing and building.
We had a messy job to finish off and he completed the task using his knowledge/manual work and the right materials/suppliers! Thanks Gary!