Day 47 - Phone Call

Progress:
So there hasn't been any progress at the house but I did phone Jayman to get the status of everything and a few clarifications.

When the head guy (Mike) didn't show up apparently that was the week he left.  Back story is that when he started to work with Jayman it was the first company that offered him a job and he took it.  The last head guy (Blake) left him such a mess to deal with and the fact that he is having difficulty finding good tradespeople (everyone is) that another company offered him a job and he took it.  I said that isn't it a little bit unprofessional to just leave and not tie any loose ends up like meetings?  Eddie's guess (Sales Associate at Jayman Innovations) was that Jayman locked him out of the computers as they have confidential information on there (granted I don't think that should be a problem as they should have gotten him to sign a non-disclosure agreement with him regarding that information).  I asked why they would want someone like that back and he said that someone very high up has seen his work and knows he's really good so they decided that they couldn't let him go and I don't know paid him more or something to stay.  Either way he's back and i'm not sure how I feel about that.  The only sort of contact i've had is for the no show meeting which has still left a bad taste in my mouth (metaphorically of course).

The second thing that I asked about was the framing of our house.  I asked if it would be another couple weeks or if he knows.  Eddie didn't know but tried to explain the framer shortage.  Apparently some years there are many and some years they're lean but this year they're hard to come by.  Supposedly a combination of Slave Lake (it had brutal fires this year that destroyed a lot of the town) and other places paying higher as well as when contracts end they'll sometime go to the oil rigs and make a lot of money there.  It still feels like an excuse to me but i'm going to choose to buy it otherwise i'll be paranoid about the building of my house.  I'm sure after this framing fiasco everything will run a lot smoother.  Eddie said that a loose guess is that it will be about 5 more months till the house is ready so that will be February and that a good head guy can make up a month of delays by making sure all the future contractors (painters, cabinet maker people, flooring, etc) are all lined up perfectly without a week in between.  I'm hoping on that scenario.  There won't be a better estimate to when the house will be done until they are in the drywall period of the house.  The head guy hopes to have all the houses that have started building around when we did done before the snow hits...but the way Edmonton is going that could be tomorrow for all we know.  I'm hoping it's a late winter this year as we had snow all the way until June this year which is appalling.  Portland would be nice :)