Diary - Still no joy with quotes

I’m only writing this article to illustrate how frustrating it can be trying to gather quotes. We are now in to the 8th month of waiting for builders to send quotes. We have dismissed 4 because of the time that lapsed. 1 of which wanted to charge us for the quotation process - that didn’t bode well. I’m now waiting for a Polish lad to come back with a revised costing and trying to track down the only one left to commit to quote.

What bothers me is the time wasted waiting for these ‘professionals’ to inform me that they are too busy to quote and in fact they don’t want the job in the first place. In any other business, this would be unacceptable.

To make things worse, it looks like my foundations aren’t going to be substantial enough and will be required to dig numerous inspection pits for the building controller to inspect. This could eat painfully into my budget and will delay the job further.

This is the learning curve I’m on. The best way to go about this would have been to get the foundations checked before plans were drawn and way before the quotation process started.

Still this is why I’m writing this blog.

Diary