Artur the Roofer...or not

I had a report that Artur Machula's latest venture is as a roofer.
Back in October 2019 Artur took £350 for a job he didn't complete to replace some tiles on a Mr M's roof. Artur had previously brought a car from Mr M. Mr M got in contact with me to tell his story. Mr M said Artur was still using the 42 Woodford Green Road, Hall Green, Birmingham B28 8PL as address for both the car sale and the roofing job.

The car Mr M sold Artur's is not Artur's daily drive - a green Vauxhall Vectra KY53HCA, as pictured below outside number 42 Woodford Green Road, Hall Green, Birmingham B28 8PL at 0800 on 27/06/2020. Mr M. said despite being upset by the incident, he felt he had got away lightly given Artur's other deceptions.

Artur Machula's Vauxhall Vectra

Whats the sum of Artur's Rip Offs

Thanks to those who have made contact to this blog to report Artur Machula ripping you off.  Lets have a quick tally of what people are saying he's had off them:

Who	Where	When	How Much	CCJ?	How did you find Artur originally?
Unknown		2013	£18,444	3YQ61636
Me		2016	£13,500	C4QZ9F36	He was recommended to me by a "friend"
i.State	Acocks Green	2018?	£650	No	Through his Artur's brother
David B			£2500	No, but got some back from someone that owed Artur Money. Clever!
FC			£6,500

So that £41,594 Artur has had out of us. In court papers Artur Machula claims to have a turn over of £17,000/yr - not sure this adds up.

Christmas at Arturs House

Apologies my last blog post was in in Draft for some time; I simply forgot to publish it.  Over Christmas I thought it may be a good opportunity to see if Artur was home.  On the 27th December I popped over and Artur's blue Freelander (actually its Magda's according to the debt collectors) was there.  I did consider knocking on his front door and wishing him a "Merry Christmas, oh and by the way where's my money?", but then I noticed someone had taken a blade to not one but all four of the tyres on the Artur's Freelander.  Given his physical threats against me last time we were in court I thought I'd give it a miss.

A quick look around told me no other cars in the street had been targeted.  Now that's not cool people!  Whilst Artur is paying for his new tyres, he has another excuse not to pay me any money 😂.  However this episode did make me look at this blog again and realise from the comments that Artur has not stopped his lies, scams and hurt on other people and that some of those people are not quite as mild mannered as myself.

Arturs Movements and Third Party Debt Orders

Its been a while since I've posted and seeing as its nearly Christmas I thought I would provide and update. To recap, Artur was ordered to pay £500/month and hasn't paid a penny.  So since then statutory interest is being applied.  At this point that's another £770.56 on top of what he owes.

In March I applied for a Third Party Debt Order.  You can find out more about those here.  I used the bank account details that Artur had provided for me to pay into, which turned out to be a Nationwide account.  Nationwide responded that he had several accounts, some of which were is joint names.  As the Third Party Debt Order cannot be applied to join accounts (unless all the individuals are on the CCJ) those could not be touched.

"We advise that we hold a further account in the joint names of the Defendant and another individual, therefore the Third Party Debt Order does not attach to that account." 

Artur had two accounts at Nationwide, which totalled less than £5 credit.  So this wasn't going anywhere.

However we did get a court date and Artur Machula did turn up.  Artur was of course, raging about this web site and complaining to the judge that he could not work because of this site and hence he could pay me.  Of course the judge said that that was nothing to do with this hearing.  Outside the court I pointed out he wasn't paying me before the site went up, so there is no difference.  I then got threats of violence which are now a matter of record with the Police.

Its often claimed that Artur is not at the 42 Woodford Road address.  However most of the summer Artur's blue Freelander (which is owned by Magda apparently) seemed to spend plenty of time at the Woodford Green Road address. Here are a series of photos that show the vehicles was there and moving (thus being used) between 18th and 25th June.

18th June 07:05

19th June 06:44

20th June 17:43

25th June 07:32

On the 29th October Magada sent an e-mail saying that Artur had moved to an address 37 Bargate Drive, Wolverhampton, WV6 0QW. However when I sent a Signed For Special Delivery letter to that address it gets returned.

Failure to complete work in an unworkman like manner - Part 2

So in this part we'll look start to look at how Artur intended to lay bricks on the foundations that were incorrectly laid. 
Artur's appointed brick layers had done ~1 day of laying bricks before leaving site and not returning.  I suspect they realise the foundations where in the wrong place as outlines in Part 1 of this and decided this was a job they did not want to be involved in.  But this was not until they had laid some bricks which actually overhang the foundations as shown in the photo below.  I think they thought that back filling around the bricks as they went would mean this would not be spotted.  But once inspection pits were dug it became clear what had happened.
Where these bricks are the wall would be 1m high so have a significant downward pressure and would have failed after a very short period of time.

All the information in this post was provided as part of the court case.

Failure to complete work in an unworkman like manner - Part 1

I didn't know a lot about foundations until I had to work with Artur.  All the following was provided during the court case.  To be fair to Artur, personally he did not actually do any work on site - he had got his "team" to do the work, but lets have a look at the first part of the failings - the spread of the foundations.  I found a good web site Paving Expert for information on foundations

Paving Expert says

Any footing should be at least 100mm wider on each edge than the thickness of the intended brickwork. So, for a 225mm thick wall, we will typically pour a 450mm wide footing. For load-bearing walls, the strip footing may be 600mm wide. The footing is typically 150mm thick, though this may be reduced to 100mm for smaller walls on good ground, or increased for heavier walls on bad ground.

What did I get?  The foundation was not even laid where the wall would go let alone provide a "spread" to support the wall.

Artur's Fails To Deliver Again

Of course its to be expected.  Artur Machula has yet again failed to do what the court ordered and has not paid the agreed £500.  Did he forget, well no.  As you can see below we had a conversation about it on the preceding Friday over text.  We had exchanged details outside the court room including account details and Artur's new mobile number.  I expected the "oh sorry I lost the details" story so sent the text on Friday to ensure he had the details.  

By Tuesday I get a "I will pay on Saturday".  We all know how this is going to end right?

That's right, Artur did not pay so new proceedings in the post to the Court and £110 is added to Artur's outstanding costs.