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Truth is, once you have their job finished they can decide to late pay you and there's nothing you can do about it, despite if you asked verbally or had it in typed lettering the size of an A4 page asking for immediate payment.
Different thing entirely if you walk out through Tesco doors with a trolley of goods while promising to pay next week, - that's theft!
People promising to pay you for all your supplied materials and time and then not bothering to pay for a few weeks, - that's just a debt owed to you. Sadly that's the law.
What can you do but wait on your money? Taking it to small claims will often just result in slower payment, and that's if you win.
Electricity bill, Gas bill, Mortgage /Rent bill, Car HP, Wife's and kids Christmas presents, Christmas booze are all more important than the plumbers one off bill. He can wait to end of January
Yes it is the law but maybe the law needs to change. id call it theft when someone has got materials which i purchased and they have asked for in their houses and they have not paid for it. It seems all the big companies are covered but nothing for us legitimate tradesmen.