Soil Update...

After numerous unreturned phone calls and unanswered emails, I went down to Porter Davis this morning to catch our CSC before she went into meetings.
Don't think she was too impressed to see me there at that time of the morning but stiff...told her i was there because she hadn't responded to us and that we had to resolve the issue of the soil or non soil testing.
Pointed out to her that the only real issue we had was with the report on what they had found in the soil cores.....how can you do a report when you haven't done the cores?...

And that we didn't want to be held up in getting our house started, that was when she dropped the bombshell that we weren't starting till mid February...Shit a brick...we had previously been told that we were starting in January...okay so its only two weeks later but that doesn't help Tony who when we move into our new house will now have finished his holidays....he cant change them again as there is now no time available the weeks have all been filled.

In the end we agreed to have a 3rd (2nd?) test done by a different company, if the results come in similar to the phantom test then we will have to pay for the testing but if they come in different then PD will pay for them. We wont be penalised for not starting in Jan...just as well as its not our fault.
So, come the New Year we will have a new soil test done, PD will finally order our building permit, final plans will be drawn up and maybe, just maybe we can get this house started.