Electrician wont do job!! What are my rights if i have any?

Question

I have posted b4 thinking my house was tripping because of dishwasher. to be advised it was most likely not wired with enough curcuits. eg: If i plug my dishwasher into the kitchen it trips if i take it down to the laundry by extention it works... So this week my whole house tripped and I couldnt flick it back on like normally. Called electricains who wired house (they denied wirring house) have since found plans that state they did and invoice to prove it. They run arround testing switches, only to ignore my advice that the prob is in kitchen. He tells me he rewired the garage lounge side cause of rats. *rolls eyes. His apprentice told me he didnt rewire! just changed a faulty point. So thinking Im ok, plug dishwasher in house tripps! works in laundry. night times comes house tripps wont turn on take freezer out of plug he "supposedly fixed" house turns back on!! Do I pay them now, the prob is not fixed now Im furrious and just want my 7 year old house to work! * QLD Australia

Answer 1

I am a licensed electrician as well.  From your description, it is impossible to tell what is wrong, but it is clear something is wrong.  What exactly is wrong really does not matter.  The fact that it doesn't work as it should does.

Here's what I would do:

Call a totally different electrician and have them inspect the work and tell you what is wrong.  Get a price quote to resolve the issue.  Get a bill for the inspection and pay for it.

Call the electrician who did the work and tell him, he can either pay for your bill and fix it, or you'll get it fixed elsewhere and you will be taking him to court for the entire cost.

More than likely, the circuit for the dish-washier is wired into too many other things.  The fix is, to install another line, all by itself, just to feed the dish-washier.  If you turn off everything else, including lights and refrigerator and turn on the dish washier.  Does it trip the circuit breaker?

EDIT:

Whole kitchen on ONE circuit?  That is wrong.  I don't understand why kitchen going out will cause other parts of the house to go out, too though.  That means those circuits are on the same circuit too.  It is hard to believe a professional will make mistake of this magnitude.   I am thinking, perhaps your ground/neutral is not connected correctly.  You really should get someone else in and inspect the work.  YOU, the non-pro saying it is wrong does not have the same weight as another pro stating it is wrong.  

Look....  your current electrician is not going to fix it for you.  He has made it clear to you that he won't.  The only thing you can do now is to get it fixed by someone else, and take him to court.  You gave him an ample chance to correct his errors and he declined.  Let the court system demand payment on your behalf.