Day 67 - Brick Issue

Hi Friends,

Recently we've been told that the bricks we chose during our colour selection is no longer available and we had to re-select the bricks. We were given a list of other bricks from the standard range to choose but upon choosing the bricks we liked on the list we were told they are currently unavailable such as Mocha (actually the majority of the bricks on list are currently not available). We were than advise by our Contract Administrator (C.A) that if we wanted Mocha which is estimated to be available approximately in 4 weeks then they will have to stop work on-site until the bricks are available and they will add the number of delayed days incurred as an extension of time to our building contract.

This is a bit confusing but bear with my explanation below LOL.

We thought in order to not delay work on site and not incurred the extension of time to our building contract we upgraded our bricks to the ones that is currently available (Hmm not the case!!). Upon receiving the variation sheet to sign and reviewing it we noticed that they are extending our contract completion days by 21 days due to delays caused by our unavailable brick, the delay started from the original date the brickwork was suppose to start until the brickwork gets started on site. This came as a shock and disappointment as 1) we weren't told about this so called delay and 2) that it will be added as an extension of time.

I questioned this and told the C.A that there was no delay as there were construction on site during the so called delayed period. The C.A acknowledged that there were work being done on site during that period but the unavailability of the brick had delayed them in commencing the lock-up stage.

In addition I told the C.A that if we were going to incur an extension of time even after we upgraded the brick then we might as well not upgrade and wait for the Mocha, the response we received was if we chose to have Mocha then they will add a further 4 weeks (when Mocha is expected to be available) to the 21 days, so in the end we have to cop this 21 days extension of time on our contract, talk about being unfair.

Anyway I told them I reserved my right to dispute this extension of time later on in the future so hopefully they will complete the construction within the original timeframe so it doesn't get to that point.

Anyone still confused?????

Sorry no photo's for a while LOL.