After a LOT of email back and forward, our builder said this:
I do not supply receipts for any materials I buy.
And then in his last email
I have read your reply in detail and unfortunately I have decided
that it would be best not to continue this working relationship. From
the tone of your emails I am now worried that you will not pay me on
completion of the work.
As for your point regarding the Trade Discount, it is common practice
for tradespeople to make 20% on material to cover the running cost of
being a business. I was being very generous in offering my trade
discount with full transparency. It is not your entitlement.
Regarding the £845, of course I would have given a receipt to prove I
have taken money for materials. This is common practice. On bigger
bulk deliveries I obtain receipts on delivery of the material and the
customer would have them.
After a LOT of email back and forward, our builder said this:
And then in his last email