Don't make me angry. You won't like how polite I get when I'm angry.

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[Contractor Dude]:

I'd really like to see this project get finished before the holidays roll around; very little seems to be happening right now (are [worker dude] and whomever else only here on Mondays or Tuesdays?)... after the majority of the sheetrock went up (quite a while after the walls and floors were finished), there was a pause until the kitchen ceiling/wall texturing was done, and I'm not sure if anything further has been done since.

My possibly-incomplete list of outstanding items:
- sheetrock/putty the remainder of where the office window was removed
- paint exterior walls and trim (partial five-gallon buckets for use & color-matching are on the backyard slab); at present, exterior has only been primed, as had been done the day of our previous correspondence (2 Nov 12)
- paint interior
- electrical service to garage & switches/lights (lights are purchased and in the garage)
- installation of HVAC unit (which was sub-contracted/purchased directly from the vendor, at your recommendation)
- install flooring & tile (tile is in kitchen, flooring is in garage, stain is in kitchen; I may need to pick up more tile to have enough to surface the floor in the utility closet)
- install plumbing fixtures (bathroom sink spigot is in garage, your guys took the shower head/spigot assembly I initially purchased back/away because it was... incomplete in some manner? i still need to purchase sink, vanity, and commode, but [worker dude] said these were pretty much the last things to go in, so I haven't done so yet, as they'll just be sitting around and taking up space)
- remove debris & re-seat backyard posts
- whatever I've overlooked

This seems like a lot of stuff that could have been taken care of over the last several weeks, but the pace of the work has slowed substantially since the roof was finished. I know when we first spoke that the timeline was six to twelve weeks; and while I understand that some of the additional aspects of the project (most notably the roof replacement, which went quickly at least) will cause things to stretch out, I'd be less frustrated if I could see progress, or at least evidence of someone having been on-site[1] and working, more than once a week. Work began in July, and we're almost into December.

-etcet

[1] Preferably not in the form of a broken light fixture, as the globe of my kitchen's ceiling fan light was a casualty of the popcorn ceiling removal/ceiling re-texturing. It was cheap and ugly, and I don't mind that it will need replacement, but still.