Legal Question in Construction Law in Washington

Unlicensed Contractor ''Contract''

Had an unlicensed contractor build a porch addition and was to do porch roof and siding as well. Total to be $3500. Had written ''contract'' stating he would get $1000 up front, $1000 more at completion of framing, $500 on completion of roofing, and $500 at end of job. After he did most of the framing and roof, was shocked at the shoddiness of his work and did not want him to continue, although he offered to fix the roof he had done poorly if I would give him $300 more dollars. I refused, afraid he would mess it up even more. I told him I did not want him to continue with further work as agreed in the contract, but asked him if he would at least correct his errors on the framing, he said that there ''were none'' and that framing was done, so he gets to keep the $2000 he had received, and that I had essentially broken the contract by not allowing him to repair his roofing mistakes -- thus the contract is not ''null and void''. I am having to get an estimate on fixing what he has done wrong. I did not get $2000 worth of work from this man, it is going to cost me at least that much to fix what he did. Do I have any recourse?

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