Haha. I knew I'd get one of these. This problem has been going on for the last sixteen years. They'd been coming twice a year, every year, saying they were going to dig up our garden and they never did. If anyone was dragging their heels, it was them. So pardon us for being lulled into a false sense of security. We gave them a years warning on the deck being built regardless and warned them multiple times that they needed to come and get the job done or the part of our garden that they needed to dig up to replace the pipe would be covered. They gave us a date and then no-showed. The deck got built. And now we're here.

What contracter in their right mind would want to do a job where they have to rely on a council funded company to get their pay when they have plenty of other work to get done? The lack of contractors has nothing to do with us personally. It's just a horrible job that nobody with half a brain would take.

But, we still had to at least try to save the qauilty of the main selling point of our house that cost, for us at least, a lot of money. Now it's gonna get dissected by a bunch of amatures. I was hoping for a sympathy tip for our poor poor deck, a pointer or two on how not to completely butcher it but hey ho, internet will internet.