Anyone heard from James Mulvey (carpenter) recently?

[Liz Goddard]

As an update on the below post, we have now heard from James and he has explained the lack of communication. He has also reimbursed our deposit so all is good.

James Mulvey is carpenter who used to get a lot of work from the forum (although less so now I believe). He seems like a nice guy and has done some work for us before which we were happy with, so we were confident when we paid him a deposit in Oct 2016 for some other work (which he initially said he would complete before Christmas). We have not heard anything from him since before Christmas and he has not been responding to any of our communications. We would be grateful to know whether anyone on here has had any contact with him in the past 6 weeks or so, or whether he is doing any work for anyone? This all seems a bit out of character (as far as we know) so we are keen to know whether he is ok or whether he is avoiding us etc. Would prefer to avoid pursuing any legal routes for claiming back our money if possible! (although advice on this would also be welcome....)

Thanks all