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both you and Mrs Hillgarth consider “stealing”.\] 3. Indeed the minutes of the meeting on 23 May 2014 specifically state that: “MH \[Michele Hillgarth\] proceeded to review and compare the quotes from A&R Lawrence and Wade Design to ensure they were both quoting for the same exact works and specifications. MH was satisfied that the quotation specifications were identical and agreed that the works be allocated to A&R Lawrence being the lowest bidder”. This directly contradicts your claims about “additional work” that Mrs Hillgarth had (according to you) been insisting on. Since you rightly insist on “indisputable and non-contestable” evidence, please provide us with the indisputable and non-contestable evidence that Mrs Hillgarth requested extra work to be done in addition to the surveyor’s directions. You cannot, because Mrs Hillgarth never asked for any work beyond what was quoted for in the surveyor’s instructions. This again is poppycock. Mrs Hillgarth did indeed \[as per Minutes\] peruse/check \[very briefly though\] that her preferred Wade contractor’s tender items was identical to all other tenders, save obviously for each separate costing \[something we had insisted on having as opposed to the more usual, one price for the whole specifications, so making it very easy to see if some items could be negotiated down, or even deleted. Without this individual system we could not have carried out our savings so easily by identifying overly expensive item costs. Although Mrs Hillgarth perused/checked as above, within days she emailed to say that Wade’s tender included lighting whereas none of the other tenders did. We responded by return denying any lighting in any tenders including Wade’s. Mrs Hillgarth was referencing her two initial Wade quotes from July 2012 and January 2013 which indeed included lighting but at an unaffordable cost. We again advised her, that along with most of what she had requested of Wade \[and two others\] to quote for in 2012 & 2013 were the considered “unaffordable items: as discussed at the Board Meeting. You have been recently supplied with correspondence from our Surveyor which he makes clear that no lighting has been included in his specifications as “you are taking care of that yourselves”. None of our tendered contractors referenced lighting nor various unaffordable items in Wade’s initial 2012 & 2013 quotes Mrs Hillgarth had requested they quote for? If Wade is considered a red herring, irrelevant, not in contention, then I’m throwing in the towel as I really cannot keep repeating all this information letter after letter... it’s boring. 4. Neither Mrs Hillgarth, nor anyone else, requested meter cupboards, pigeon holes, signage..... The most important part of the refurbishment for the leaseholders was to have the marble cleaned professionally, since it had not been done for at least 40 years, and the steaming and painting of the lift cage which equally had not been done for about the same time. However you chose to ignore their wish for the marble to be properly cleaned. And you did a cheap job of painting the lift cage yourself, without proper preparation, and in a colour the leaseholders had not asked for.