End of August 2011 Our villa in Koca Calis
BLOG 75 Promises, promises -
After a few more meetings with Farouk, L and another bod from the newly named ‘Deska Global’, whom L calls their ‘architect’, a few more things are fixed. The toilets now all have new flushing mechanisms and they’ve made an attempt to fix the Jacuzzi bath but it’s unsatisfactory. The showers still flood the floors of the bathrooms and I’ve finally got an agreement that at least one bathroom will have a full shower screen installed. Still battling about the other two because they already have partial glass screens but they’re insufficient to stop the flooding. Oh yes, promises that full guttering and down pipes will be put in (but what’s the urgency, they say – it’s not raining!). As to the parts of the villa’s external walls that are beginning to peel – yes, that too will be done.
On our final day, I go through the snagging list again with L. There are still loads of large and small things unticked – and then, to our amazement, L asks for the final payment! Our answer, needless to say, is ‘no – not until this list is all complete with every item ticked off as done’. She more or less promises that all will be done but it’s impossible to do immediately, and hints that this will delay our Tapu. Is the Tapu ready, I ask? That’s not her job, she says, she have to ask M, from Deska. I just wish I could speak directly to S, the woman partner from Deska, or her brother, K – but both are unavailable – always either out of town or ‘attending a meeting’. As to M, I’ve neither met him or heard of him until now.
I tell L that as soon as all the work is done and I have photographic evidence, we’ll pay the final amount and on our next trip, receive the Tapu as per contract.
Then it’s time to go home – the time has flown. OH has spent most of his time either lying in the air-conditioned lounge watching the English news on the satellite TV or lying on a sunbed at the Sport Café beach sipping an Efez. I seem to have spent a lot of time in the pool, the best place to cool off, or arguing/negotiating with L and workmen from Deska . At any rate, we’ve had a change of scene and in between times, a lovely break.
Can I trust Deska to fulfill their promises? Hmmmm
. . . to be continued . . .usually posted on Thursday