Building Material Delivery - Is This Usual?

Doozergirl

It's up to the contractor to move materials.

Buildig deliveries are usually to kerbside. The size of these vehicles means that there is a high chance of any domestic driveway being ruined with the weight. They often have to steady the vehicle on hydraulics before moving the crane on the hiab. They just don't attempt anything else unless specifically told it's okay - and then often only because they know the builder.

Not your job to move the stuff but not the delivery driver's responsibility to place it exactly where you need it. They do tend to call them 'drops' rather than 'deliveries'.

bugslet

Doozergirl wrote: »

Not your job to move the stuff but not the delivery driver's responsibility to place it exactly where you need it. They do tend to call them 'drops' rather than 'deliveries'.

That ^^^

A.Penny.Saved wrote: »

Would an elderly lady be expected to move 25Kg bags? .

She'd be expected to make suitable provision for having them put the goods where she wanted - in that case, make sure the builders were contracted to move them or hire general labour, something along those lines.

If you can access the back of the garden or it's a building work for the front of the house and the front garden is very small ( mine's barely 10 foot from wall to front door), then you can get close. But suppose you can't get your truck into a driveway and it's 80' long - there isn't provision within delivery times for the driver to haul individual bags that far.

You really need to check with your main contractor what they said they would do and if they say that the driver should have lugged everything to one place, that doesn't necessarily mean that is what they told the truck company;). ( We don't deliver to homes, but the rubbish some contractors come out with because they think that customers aren't likely to talk to us - sheesh!:D)

cyclonebri1

Doozergirl wrote: »

It's up to the contractor to move materials.

Buildig deliveries are usually to kerbside. The size of these vehicles means that there is a high chance of any domestic driveway being ruined with the weight. They often have to steady the vehicle on hydraulics before moving the crane on the hiab. They just don't attempt anything else unless specifically told it's okay - and then often only because they know the builder.

Not your job to move the stuff but not the delivery driver's responsibility to place it exactly where you need it. They do tend to call them 'drops' rather than 'deliveries'.

The point I've been trying to make all the time.

The OP mentioned if the OP had disability issues? Well special arrangements have to be made, just the same as a 2 man delivery for white appliances.

The Other point is that a disabled person is unlikely to be ordering tons of building material, again it would be arranged by the contractor