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by WhyNot
Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:46 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

Yes they just mailed me the protocol and this was a line in the original offer that is already fully paid. It shows the tests to each individual circuit breaker and is. Signed and stamped by them.they mentioned to keep this document Actually I don't doubt their technical competences, it is just the ...
by WhyNot
Fri Jan 10, 2025 8:33 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

Another electrician came and he mention it will require at least another 500€ to fix the doorbell as he needs to spend few hours finding the correct cables in the building and manage to drive them to our apartment as the old ones seem cut somewhere - to find this we would have to break most of the ...
by WhyNot
Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:38 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

I have another quick question I read on internet that "Zahlbar sofort” bedeutet eine unmittelbare Zahlung. “Ohne Abzug” bedeutet, es gibt keinen Rabatt. Rechtlich greift aber das 30-tägige Zahlungsziel gemäß Bürgerlichem Gesetzbuch. Der Schuldner kann sich also trotz “sofortiger” Zahlungsverpfl...
by WhyNot
Fri Jan 10, 2025 1:33 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

So my wife managed to have a call with the elektriker and actually we are even more baffled. He now claims we misunderstood and he is not charging us for delays in finishing the walls (although he wrote this on the bill) but he claims his employee wrote that twice he came and couldn't do any work du...
by WhyNot
Thu Jan 09, 2025 2:00 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

Good that you have had a good experience... And no surprise in the bill
by WhyNot
Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:45 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

Yes he simply refused to even look at it. And said I had to. Contact Hausverwaltung, but the issue is that all other appartment on this building have working doorbell.. So yes I'm almost sure they messed up while connecting phone lines or others maybe they pulled the wrong wires somewhere. I'll try ...
by WhyNot
Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:29 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

Yeah I haven't kept any log, my understanding was that an Angebot is binding and even he took longer to finish it would be on his bad estimation. That how it works with my job I can't say it will take 20h and then bill for 40 if I messed up. And he is exactly doubling the amount of working hours fro...
by WhyNot
Wed Jan 08, 2025 12:37 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

unfortunately no Rechtschutz :( Otherwise I would have triggered it already. live an learn

Thank you for the answers, hopefully we will discuss today the points we do not agree and then see what to do next
by WhyNot
Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:35 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

Thanks once again!, yes I do not want to contact lawyer if I do not have to. As you mentioned it seems I had bad luck. We wrote back that we were not in agreement of the bill, and that he didnt specify the different amounts of effort for each of the items. He just wrote 60h and in the description wr...
by WhyNot
Wed Jan 08, 2025 6:42 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Re: Extra bill from electrician - legal?

Thank you for your yes whining we are doing and there are some items that we didn't ask for it. He broke a pipe while cutting the walls and now included this in the description of extra work? Also he left us without a working doorbell and now we have to contract a different electrician. We have neve...
by WhyNot
Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:37 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Extra bill from electrician - legal?
Replies: 21
Views: 13371

Extra bill from electrician - legal?

Hello all and happy new year We contracted an electrician to renew our appartment installation, it was a big work with new cables, sockets/lights destroyed walls etc. We have an Angebot which we paid 50% upront and the rest when job was completed according to the Rechnung that was sent to us. We pai...
by WhyNot
Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: Vorauszahlungen
Replies: 12
Views: 1855

Re: Vorauszahlungen

but as you said before, it is an estimation based on income. not the total tax due (deductions and other allowances) - I have never bothered on how is it calculated.
you will get the difference anyway.

good luck
by WhyNot
Sun Jul 07, 2024 6:07 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: Vorauszahlungen
Replies: 12
Views: 1855

Re: Vorauszahlungen

I suppose FA and your Steuerberater are right. For me (with lower amounts) happened the same a couple of years ago, resulting on strange year where I had to pay nachzahlung and FA transferred me the difference to the Vorauszahlung, in the end it was all okay, although I also thought the Vorauszahlun...
by WhyNot
Fri May 24, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: Traveling in Europe
Topic: Lost passport about to travel...
Replies: 47
Views: 21472

Re: Lost passport about to travel...

Thank you for your replies. I have the same experience as many of you. My country (EU) also didn't let me keep my passport when I renewed it, but I guess it was just a "special" worker. My wife got her passport punctured and "cut" at the number/electronic page. then travelled wit...
by WhyNot
Wed May 22, 2024 8:16 pm
Forum: Traveling in Europe
Topic: Lost passport about to travel...
Replies: 47
Views: 21472

Re: Lost passport about to travel...

Guess they kept it... which I don't understand. For my wife, when she changed her legal name they also did a cut on the first page and she travelled with both passports as her NE was only on passport (she has now the card as well) This is a friend, she wants to travel with us but is apprehensive if ...
by WhyNot
Tue May 21, 2024 10:53 am
Forum: Traveling in Europe
Topic: Lost passport about to travel...
Replies: 47
Views: 21472

Re: Lost passport about to travel...

thanks, need to check if she still has the old one. I guess they kept it/destroyed it once she got the new one.

But this would of course help with proof
by WhyNot
Tue May 21, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: Traveling in Europe
Topic: Lost passport about to travel...
Replies: 47
Views: 21472

Re: Lost passport about to travel...

sorry to jump in the topic. we are travelling to Croatia and one of our friends (travelling with us by car) has a Niederlassungerlaubniss ofr Germany. The issue is that she recently changed her legal name, has a passport with new name, but the NE is still not updated. She has the marriage certificat...