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NickCJ
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In this week's "first world problems" digest, we are on the verge of sacking off our current builders. Despite starting off strong, they have repeatedly fucked us off for other work and when they tried to save face by getting new guys in "for the whole week", those new guys spent Monday and Tuesday ripping out the shit work that the last guys did, then got pulled to other jobs from Wednesday onwards (f I could just get these 2 guys to do all the work, I'd be happy). We've asked them for cast iron dates that work will be completed (because I'm trying to avoid paying for work twice [we still owe them money but have paid for some stuff that does need fixed]) by tomorrow night. If a full project plan doesn't materialise over the weekend, we'll be back to square 1.
In hindsight, it all makes sense. These guys started up their own firm because they didn't like working for their previous master. They are skilled trades in what they do themselves (spark and chippy), but they have no clue how to manage a busy book of business. As it stands, due to half started/finished rooms, we can only use less than a 1/3 of the house.