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Cameron Ward & Tanveer Mann

Builders smash up brand new patio with sledgehammers ‘because they’re owed £7k’

This is the shocking moment a group of builders decide to smash up a brand new patio they had just made because the customer had allegedly not paid them.

Footage shows the builders tearing down fences and smashing paving slabs after it is thought the builder's were owed over £7,000 from the customer, despite them asking "five times".

A man can be heard saying "smash it all to bits" as they destroy a patio in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

The clip was shared on Jack Pendergast's Facebook page shortly after the incident yesterday with the caption: "Exactly what happens when you don't pay and try to con me."

Workers can be seen wrecking the work they had done as they lift up paving slabs and drop them on the ground, and hammer through wooden fences.

Footage shows the builders tearing down fences and smashing paving slabs at the property in Cheshire (Deadline News)
A man filming can be heard saying: "This is what happens when you try and have me off for £7,300" (Deadline News)

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A man filming can be heard saying: "This is what happens when you try and have me off for £7,300. Smash the whole place to bits."

Footage also shows a woman and her two dogs barking in the conservatory as the man is heard saying: "Take it all down, take every bit of down."

The man then said: "Smash it to bits, every last little bit of it. Smash it all to bits. It's fine, it's all my stuff."

Another clip then shows the destroyed garden with broken paving slabs and bricks and torn down fences. The man then says: "Taking our materials all back, it's what happens, it's exactly what happens."

The builders say they asked the customer "five times" to pay them (Deadline News)

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The man says: "I asked five times to make payment, oh well no more."

A police car then shows up and the man says: "Police here now. Oh they are going, because they know we are in our right. All the materials are ours, they are coming back."

Another clip shows the extent of the upheaval as the man says: "Con artist, that's what she is. Making young lads work for money and not paying anyone. Third, fourth people she hasn't paid."

The builders refer to the customer as a "con artist" in the footage (Deadline News)
The footage showed the destroyed garden (Deadline News)

Cheshire Police confirmed they had responded to a call regarding a disagreement at the address.

A spokeswoman said: "At 9.18am on Thursday 3 May police received a report of a dispute taking place at an address on Wellswood Road in Ellesmere Port.

"The disagreement is a civil matter, however officers attended due to reports of an altercation. No arrests have been made and there have been no reports of any injuries."

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