Our builder has informed us that he will no longer continue with our build, and will be closing his business down. He quoted (in a letter, hand-delivered to our house whilst we were away) the recession and “medical problems”. Those don’t seem to have prevented him continuing to work elsewhere, though.

So, resigned to the fact we have very little recourse (without taking legal action against him personally), we have to finish the build ourselves and with our own contractors (and paying them ourselves, of course). We’ll be out of pocket, but all we want is our house finished.

So, what’s left to do? The electrics have to be finished – upstairs and 2nd bedroom downstairs 2nd fix, and chasing in existing wiring, ready for plastering. All the rooms need to be plastered, some skimmed and some plastered onto new plasterboard. There’s some final work to be done on the carpentry (stair handrail and spindles, 3 doors to be fitted upstairs, etc etc).

We feel very angry that the house has been left in a sorry state in certain areas, and we’re expecting a visit from building control to find out what we need to do to enable us to get our completion certificate. That will be an interesting meeting.

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