Second entry

What I should have added to my last post that the contract said that when the excavation started in May the work would be completed in May. The contract was a standard SPASA contract and when we queried Harry the salesman on it he said it wasn't the pool companies that delayed but the owners. I would now recommend against signing any building contract without penalty clauses as given the shoot-from-the-hip style of the industry you have no leverage unless there is a penalty, and you will need some way of persuading your pool builder to comply.