Tassimat
2019-08-15 12:43:37
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Just let that roll over your tongue: The contractor puts up a scaffold in the driveway to the construction site and then writes a hindrance notice to the clients because his own scaffold is in the way?
"Hindrances" in this sense are circumstances that lie outside the sphere of the company (weather, progress of other trades, poor preparation by the client, etc.), not faulty planning by the company itself.
Yes, of course all this is strange and unfavorable, but at the end of the day there are two separate contracts for two separate construction projects. The thread creator probably also emphasized that. Sure, it’s the same construction company, but an action on behalf of neighbor A hinders neighbor B. Whether that lies inside or outside the sphere of the company... one can excellently have a legal dispute about that. No one wins there.
Anyway, the really bad part of the situation is the following statement:
Furthermore, the letter was presented to us with the words "Sign it, otherwise we won't start."
A meeting on site to discuss this was declined.
So what to do? And what if a house is finished much later now? Can you all bear that without affecting the friendship, without one neighbor eventually accusing the other that everything was unfair?
Difficult. I would continue trying to talk to the contractor. Go to them.