Very frustrating

It’s mid-morning as I type this and yet again there’s no activity on my house-build. So that’s two weeks since anything was done to move the project along and there’s nothing much that I can do about it.

The contractual period by the end of which the house must be completed is 12 months and the builder must know that even with delays like this at the front-end, they can still get the house finished within this deadline to avoid paying penalties. That doesn’t do much for my hopes, however, for a speedy completion that will see me moving in by the end of the summer.

I certainly don’t look forward to facing another winter in my caravan, especially as if it does happen, it will be down at the colder bottom end of my land. This delay and the uncertainty it engenders is highly frustrating to say the least, the more so as I plan to leave for the UK in just a few short days.

But there’s more to this. According to the contract terms, I transferred a sum equivalent to 15% of the cost of the build on commencement of work but I don’t think that I see that value in the work that has been completed at this moment in time.

Nevertheless, I’ve been requested to make a further transfer in the meantime and have complied, bringing the total up to 25% of the cost of the build and for that I would like to see the groundwork completed and reasonable progress having been made on the walls.

I don’t much like paying for results in advance and not seeing anything happening so we will have to see what happens over the coming couple of days before I start asking some leading questions.