Q: The contractor took 6 months to finish a job that per the contract was about 10 days. Can we sue for compensation?
We got 5 bids and this one was in the middle, about $69,000. The delays were caused by contractor incompetence. Forgetting to order windows, ordering wrong size, breaking a window which had be reordered, unacceptable sliding door installation which had to to redone, breaking the sliding door frame while doing that, redoing of installation which was disapproved by the Inspector, etc. None of the delays were caused by us, or the weather. We are in our late 70s and these 6 months have been very hard and stressful on us. At our age stress is painful. The contract does not call out compensation for breach of contract which this is. This happened in Manatee County, Florida.
A: Perhaps, but your biggest problem will be calculating damages. Stress, by itself is not normally compensable.
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