TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF TRADE TO OUR VALUED CUSTOMER:

Thank you for choosing AKL Plumbing & Gasfitting.

It is important for you to understand our responsibility to you as well as what we ask of you.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO YOU:

We will carry out the work you have asked us to do to the standard of best trade practices and in a timely and courteous manner.

If we are working for you for the purposes of your business as defined in the Consumer
Guarantees Act 1993, the provisions of that Act do not apply to our work or services. The Act is not excluded in any other case.

If we have given you a firm quote for the work we are doing for you then we will send you an account for that amount, only. To be regarded as a firm quote, the price must be set out in writing and clearly marked as a firm quote with full details of the work to be done for the price.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO US:

To pay our account on or before the 7 day payment date that is set out on our invoices which will be emailed to you. Any accounts unpaid after this date shall be regarded as overdue. We are entitled to charge interest at 24.5% p.a. on any overdue account (of more than 30 days), which shall not be regarded as paid in full until that interest is also paid.

If we incur expenses, including a debt collection agency, in collecting an overdue account from you then all of that cost becomes part of the overdue amount.

We shall be entitled to cease work on your job if any account owing to us is overdue.
To advise us promptly of any dispute that you have with the manner in which we have carried out your work.

PAYMENT AND OWNERSHIP OF MATERIALS

We reserve the right, in some circumstances, to ask for payment in advance for materials,
appliances or other items which we are required to purchase in order to carry out the work you have asked us to do.

The ownership of any materials purchased by us for the job remains the property of AKL
Plumbing and Gasfitting Services LTD until you have paid our account in full.
We reserve the right to enter on to any property to recover those items should we need to do so and to register our ownership of any of our property in your possession in the Personal Property Security Register.