Hi,

Hoping someone can satisfy my curiosity.

The people a couple of doors down our street are having some work done.
The work consists of converting an existing double garage into a
habitable room and building a new (attached) single garage.

I can't actually remember when they started but I'm pretty sure it will
be 4 weeks tomorrow and the work is far from completed. It took them 2
weeks to lay the foundation for the new garage and it appears to have
taken a further 2 weeks to do most of the brickwork. It is possible that
internal work has taken place as well as brickwork in the last 2 weeks
however the windows have not yet been fitted to the conversion. Roof
timbers have not yet appeared for the new garage.

Weather has generally been reasonable although during the second week
there were 3 days with significant rain during working hours.

There are 3 builders working on this site. Is this a normal rate of
progress, or am I right in thinking they are somewhere between "slow"
and "taking the ****"?

Martin.