Families out of pocket as doors close on shed company

A BUNDAMBA couple has been left $1400 out of pocket after the company they paid to supply two roller garage doors vanished with barely a trace.

John and Val Vogel were devastated to find the premises of Patios and Sheds Ipswich locked and deserted, after the company failed to deliver and install a roller-door kit they'd paid a deposit for before Christmas.

Mr Vogel, who is terminally ill, and Mrs Vogel, said they didn't even have a way of contacting the company, with phone numbers not working and the company's website now shut down.

The Vogels are not the only people who have been left out of pocket, with the QT being told that Patios and Sheds Ipswich had been locked out of its Warwick Rd premises due to the non-payment of rent.

Mrs Vogel said she and her husband had taken the matter up with the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, which was now investigating Patios and Sheds Ipswich.

"We went out there just before Christmas," Mrs Vogel said.

"They told us that if we paid them the deposit straight away, we would have our doors just after Christmas.

"After a few weeks of waiting we decided to go around there to see them.

"When we arrived, nearly everything was gone.

"There was a phone number on the fence for the person who owns the property."

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Families out of pocket as doors close on shed company