Same sh*t, different day.

Just as I was thinking that the neighbors had finally moved on with their life, as I was slowly waking up this morning, I hear my phone ringing over and over again. Holy sh*t, who wants to speak to me sooooo badly at 7:30 in the morning??? (Better be Jon Hamm calling to invite me out for dinner!).

Our super-nice builder, whom I could tell was pretty unhappy from his tone of voice, is on the phone and announces that #3 has requested that the Building Inspector comes to the site (what, again???? The City is going to think we are trying to break some kind of a record) because it looks like the shoring work was not done properly. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Is this some kind of a joke???? Our structural engineer has come to inspect the work (on many occasions) and has let us know that the shoring is so strong that we could build a 20 storey building on top of it. In fact, he was extremely impressed. The work done is quite complicated and you'd need to know what the initial plan is to assess if it was or not done properly. Well I guess #3 and his little "snoop-around-and-cause-trouble" engineer have decided otherwise although they don't exactly know what the fuck is going on. This new complaint comes as a surprise for me for two reasons:

- the access to our private property is RESTRICTED... so what are these two doing snooping around on a job site where they are not allowed to be? That rubs me the wrong way big time. Not that we have anything to hide, obviously, but in order to produce a CONCLUSIVE report, the engineer would have had to come down into the pit by TRESPASSING... FYI... TRESPASSING IS AGAINST THE LAW... is it not?
- if they didn't trespass, how could they analyze what has been done without actually seeing anything (the property is fenced off). This means that the report was based on NO FACTS! Ugh! So someone is critiquing a peer's work but without backing his own work with tangible information. What kind of an engineer does that? This is very disturbing. Not to mention highly unethical...


At any rate, we were asked to meet the Building Inspector on site and I can say that he looks pretty pissed off to be called to this location again. He is not impressed at all and tells us that "this is not a very normal way to conduct construction". I hear ya! Unfortunately, what can we do? The inspector can't take side (why?) and has to show up to the site every time there is a complaint, even if the complaint is based on a whole bunch of nonsense. After a quick look at the shoring, he tells us that "Everything looks great, I have no concerns. Keep on working". He also mentions that the report he's received from #3's engineer wasn't very impressive (apparently the engineer said several time "that he believes" that the shoring is not done properly... Hum, yeah... we are going to need more than your beliefs to even consider the seriousness of your report, just so you know...).


Well, again, another case of complete waste of time for all of us. No to mention the stress and aggravation associated with the process. 
I keep on thinking that they (the whack jobs next door) are going to leave us alone but they keep on coming back with something ridiculous every time: it's becoming very frustrating at this point! (*_*). I am trying to NOT blow up, and it is quite challenging, especially for someone with very little patience like me.