Ask a solicitor: The amount I've been offered won't even cover my building materials

We agreed on a price of €50,000. The job is now done and I asked for payment, but now he is saying it couldn’t possibly be this amount and that we never agreed on that price, writes this week's reader

I am fuming as I worked very hard to get it done quickly and I had to pay an employee to help me with the build over the summer months. File picture

Dear Karen,

I am a builder and I built some farm sheds on a farm. I had done work for his neighbour, and as everything was friendly, and he was happy with what I'd done on the neighbour's farm, it was all agreed verbally with a handshake.