Are you certain that your contractor is using subs and not "employees?" My experience was that my licensed GC was using unskilled trades (his friends and relatives) and not licensed tradespeople, as he had promised. Ask your GC to provide the names, business addresses, and contract license#s of all tradespeople working in your home. Edited to add: Also, make sure that all workers in your home are properly covered by worker's compensation insurance.

I just want them out of my house. Any advice?

At this point, you have the choice to either buckle down & ride it out or fire them and finish the job yourself. Or get on a probably very long wait list for someone else to finish up.

If your contractor is using all subs as you say then, he is relaying to you what they told him. I would think that he is even more frustrated than you are.

Timing is shifting and changing, with less than ideal communication about it in normal construction ptojects in a non pandemic year. Covid accelerated that, and then added more huge monkey wrenches with major supply issues. Right now, your experience is normal.

Understand that there is nothing that your GC can do that affects the outside forces that are causing this. The electrical delay on Mrs Smiths job means downstream consequences not just for her, but for Mr Jones, Ms Green, Graham, and you. You do not control the forces that create these issues either.

No one expected the TX freeze to have major impacts on paint availability this deep into the year. Or to force major compsnies to try to outsource components elsewhere, which ruined hundreds of batches, and made the issue worse, not better.

Every part of the build industry is overtaxed and beyond capacity. At a time when demand is 200% higher, ability to fulfill is 30% or less. . Try to be understsnding. It isn’t affecting just your job. Millions are in the same boat.

We were at breakfast yesterday when two other customers entered. They told us they had been at xxxxxx cafe that morning, but the three cooks who were scheduled to work never came to work. Poor xxxxxx cafe had to close for the morning! Only in America! People whining the landlords want to evict them and people with jobs don’t show. Fast food places here are advertising $15 an hour to start. A sign in front of an insurance agency offered a “signing bonus” for a receptionist position.

Thanks all. It helps to have professionals put this in perspective. I am trying to understand, in fact I agreed to a two Phase approach to the project, recognizing that the custom cabinetry would take months to arrive so the contractor is completing everything else whilst we wait for the cabinetry. I understand that. I suppose I'm rankled at the lack of communication. If they would explain (as several of you have) that there is a 200% increase with a 30% labor force, I suppose I could accept it better than them promising until the last minute that they would hit the delivery date for Phase I, only for me to suss out from one of the subs that they were running weeks behind. As you rightly said, it's too near the end to shoot the horse I rode in on. Just need to grit my teeth and over-communicate with them to try to keep informed. Thanks for the responses. Does help.