SKOWHEGAN — A Solon plumbing contractor has filed a lawsuit against a Somerset County commissioner’s construction firm, charging P.R. Construction failed to pay bills totaling over $55,000.

In a lawsuit filed last month in Somerset County Superior Court, Consolidated Plumbing and Heating of Solon states that P.R. Construction, a Fairfield firm, failed to pay for plumbing work done on a house in Carrabassett Valley.

Philip Roy, chairman of the Somerset County Commission, is president of P.R. Construction.

Reached Thursday, Roy said that he was “flabbergasted” by the lawsuit, which he said is completely without merit.