As I suspected, we're stalled out (now one week delay, unclear how much longer) in our disaster remodeling because the contractor failed to order the carpet early enough. In chess, we would call them a one-move-ahead player (ie only able to look at the move they are on), versus a 3-4 move ahead player (anticipating possible issues/problems ahead of time). #disasterremodeling#planning#projectmanagement
@ai6yr - this is every contractor ever. This drives my wife (who among other things does project management) completely nuts.
She always wants to get the contractors to do a bonus for early completion and a penalty for a late one, but they would never sign that kind of contract.
@grajohnt@ai6yr
I get that the risk of something coming out of left field can be daunting. At the same time there's effectively no incentive for proactively avoiding delays if there's neither carrot nor stick attached to the outcomes.
@gooba42@grajohnt Yep, I sense this is the case... The only thing that moves things along faster is pestering, mostly because they want you out of their hair.
@ai6yr@gooba42 - yep. The only option is to be the squeakiest wheel. If they know you're going to be calling them when they don't show up, they tend to show up more.
Unsurprising as you likely only have those planning-ahead skills in contractors (ie, not in the cheapest-vendor-the-insurance-company-has-approved) #decisiontree
@BakerRL75 Yeah, he can't tell me how long it will be. I am tempted to call up the local Home Depot and ask them on what the lead time for carpet is nowadays.
@ai6yr@BakerRL75 I think I would. And then report to the head contractor and the insurance agent the difference in time. Maybe get a new crew to handle it.
@BakerRL75 I'm hoping it's just a delay of a week... versus week(s). Looks like finding someone on the phone tree at our local store is impossble, LOL. Looking it up, carpet lead time is 2 to 14 weeks (14 weeks?!?!)
@BakerRL75 Yeah, 14 weeks would be bad. Texted the contractor asking what the lead time is for the carpet. Not that will fix any issue now, but would be good to know if we're talking another week, another month, or three months...
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