Let's apply some pressure and see what happens...

On Monday night I sent Sean an email saying that we expected him a week ago, and since we hadn't heard from him, we've gone ahead and hired another roofer to fix his mess, and we will send him an invoice for the work. I also stated our intention to hire a building inspector, and notified him I'm filing a complaint with the BBB (which I did last night) and if that if we're not satisfied with that, we'll be taking him to Small Claims Court. Or he can finish the work by the end of the month and we won't sue him. He replied today and I got the impression he is surprised we'd do such a thing; he's been so good to us! I haven't replied yet.

I put together a graphical timeline in Excel tonight. The top (blue) line is work done, middle (red) is delays, and bottom (green) is other. There's a nice, solid section of work done for the first month, then there's his statement that there were 7 10-hour days left just before we hit the 2-month mark (which was how long he'd quoted in the first place) and everything's looking good. Then by the middle of August, there starts being a fair number of delays, although still work is being done. Near the beginning of September he says it's going to be another 6 weeks. Then there is no more work done at all after mid-October, until we threatened him with Breach of Contract. At that point he said he'd finish everything by the end of March; he send one or two guys for a couple of days to finish the permit-related items so that we passed a building inspection just prior to the permit expiring, but that's it. Nothing else has been done since then.

New Roof

Today the roofing company came and re-did our old roof. They are going to come back another day and fix the tie-in between the new section and the old, as I don't think Sean ever will. I can't really see the roof from anywhere so no pictures of this one! Although maybe Brooke might go up one day and have a look, so perhaps there will be some in future!

New glass, finally

Yesterday we finally received the new window pane for the bedroom window that arrived broken before it was ever installed. I had added it to the long list of things that are Sean's fault that we're still waiting for, but when I called the company they said that there was a reason their old salesguy was fired, and the new guy came out that same day I think to re-measure the window. That was a couple of weeks ago, and the installer came last night and put it in, and re-measured for the downstairs screen and said he'd have it to me probably next Thursday when he's in town next.

So that one is apparently not Sean's fault. Now, for everything else....

Three weeks ago Sean said he'd be here in about 3 weeks to do the siding. Or maybe roofing. I'm not 100% sure now. I've emailed him twice in that time frame and have had no response. (One was to confirm that he was coming the week of the 7th.) A few days ago, Thursday of last week I think, some saw horses appeared while we were at work with some quarter-round on them. We changed the locks around November or December, so if Sean was thinking he'd just show up and do them he must have been surprised. We haven't heard from him though. So we'll see. Another week, two tops, and I'm filing a complaint with the BBB. I've already typed it up and just need to send it.