Builder Took Your Deposit and Never Did the Work? How to Get Your Money Back (UK)
You paid a builder a deposit — and then nothing. No start date that ever happened, a half-finished job abandoned, or a trader who has stopped answering the phone. This is a broken contract, and you have a right to your money back. Here is why non-performance is legally different from bad workmanship, the common-law route that gets you a <strong>full refund of money paid for work never done</strong> plus the extra cost of getting someone else to finish, the deposit-protection schemes worth checking, and the <strong>chargeback</strong>, <strong>Section 75</strong> and <strong>small-claims</strong> routes that can recover your money even when the trader has vanished.
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