bigbendmarine
5 year old buck +
So Morton began constructing a building for me earlier in 2018 and for MULTIPLE reasons outside my direct control (many WITHIN Morton's control) the build has been ongoing from around April through today. All is complete save a small front porch entry "wrapping" job that the Morton rep says should take no more than 2 work days.
Here's my rub. My initial goals shared with the sales lead were -- 1) ideally we start early enough to COMPLETELY BEAT the start of the June hurricane season, and 2) COME HELL OR HIGHWATER Morton be completely OFFSITE by our Nov deer gun season. With the sales lead saying actual build should take about a month he pushed hard they'd be done by late June.
That led to countless missteps on their end -- contractor identified BY MORTON to do foundation dirt work around the March timeframe didn't show for a month and then the 2nd guy they pushed delayed almost another month. That ended up delaying delivery of materials to the start of Hurricane season -- materials actually got dumped on my place during Tropical Storm Alberto flooding.
Once things dried enough to start, the original sales rep / site manager quit midway through build leading to ANOTHER LONG delay and with complete silence from Morton until I called asking why the heck build stopped midway through.
Finally got the build underway again, and the new Morton rep failed to think about identifying garage door style (I actually choose SIMPLEST plain door) and that led to another month delay for door fabrication / delivery time. And though God knows I don't understand why, supposedly the metal materials for the wrapping won't be available until January and Morton's asking to be given through the end of February for the job completion... AND.. though they'll identify a target finish date, they say they have no history of including cost penalties for missed deadline dates.
Thus my post... besides merely venting about LONG build time, I'm wanting to do a truth check on the current reps with whom I'm talking.
Anybody know if it's true that they never include penalties for missed deadline dates? I should clarify that one rep said he thought they have done so for commercial builds but NEVER with residential builds.
Shame is I like the work they do and like the barn we designed and that is now tantalizingly almost complete. But NO WAY I'd do it again WITHOUT penalties built in due to the project management mishandling on their part... not a snowballs chance in Hades.
MUCH appreciate hearing from ANYONE who's worked with Morton before.
Here's my rub. My initial goals shared with the sales lead were -- 1) ideally we start early enough to COMPLETELY BEAT the start of the June hurricane season, and 2) COME HELL OR HIGHWATER Morton be completely OFFSITE by our Nov deer gun season. With the sales lead saying actual build should take about a month he pushed hard they'd be done by late June.
That led to countless missteps on their end -- contractor identified BY MORTON to do foundation dirt work around the March timeframe didn't show for a month and then the 2nd guy they pushed delayed almost another month. That ended up delaying delivery of materials to the start of Hurricane season -- materials actually got dumped on my place during Tropical Storm Alberto flooding.
Once things dried enough to start, the original sales rep / site manager quit midway through build leading to ANOTHER LONG delay and with complete silence from Morton until I called asking why the heck build stopped midway through.
Finally got the build underway again, and the new Morton rep failed to think about identifying garage door style (I actually choose SIMPLEST plain door) and that led to another month delay for door fabrication / delivery time. And though God knows I don't understand why, supposedly the metal materials for the wrapping won't be available until January and Morton's asking to be given through the end of February for the job completion... AND.. though they'll identify a target finish date, they say they have no history of including cost penalties for missed deadline dates.
Thus my post... besides merely venting about LONG build time, I'm wanting to do a truth check on the current reps with whom I'm talking.
Anybody know if it's true that they never include penalties for missed deadline dates? I should clarify that one rep said he thought they have done so for commercial builds but NEVER with residential builds.
Shame is I like the work they do and like the barn we designed and that is now tantalizingly almost complete. But NO WAY I'd do it again WITHOUT penalties built in due to the project management mishandling on their part... not a snowballs chance in Hades.
MUCH appreciate hearing from ANYONE who's worked with Morton before.