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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just make sure you don't pay in advance.  That will most assuredly result in it not being done.

But, seriously, your contractor can't schedule subs until the contractor knows when your materials will be in.  Just because the materials have an anticipated arrival date does not at all mean they will get there by that time. 
 And subs are backed up too.  Penalties won't help unless it's the contractor's fault and if it's a materials problem, the penalties most likely won't apply.  [/quote]

Our contract has milestones, so we've paid some amount for the initial deposit and the first milestone he completed, but not the bulk of it.  Even when materials have showed up, it often takes a week or two for the sub to actually get out to install.  There's at least one task that has no back ordered materials that's been sitting undone for nearly a month.    [/quote]

This is the way it goes, unless you are willing to pay the subs their full rate to sit idle while they wait for your materials.  The GC can’t schedule the subs until they know when the materials will be there, and with the current demand and back orders, delivery schedules are a lot less reliable than they used to be.  The GCs often don’t know for sure these days when the materials will show up until they actually show up.  At that point, it can easily take a week or two to get into the schedule for a good sub.

As for the parts not getting done even though they’re not waiting for materials, if the subs needed for that part will also be needed for other parts where the GC is waiting in something, they may be waiting until all parts of your project are ready for that sub because it’s more cost efficient that way.  Bring subs out piecemeal really drives up the cost of a project, so if a particular sub will be doing X and Y for your project, and X is ready to go but Y can’t be done until a different sub comes in to do Z first, the GC generally won’t bring out the sub just for X.  They will wait until Z is done and then bring the sub in for X and Y at the same time.  [/quote]

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