Coming to terms with how things are in Bulgaria is a very difficult for some people and to deal with this it is very much a open mind that you have to bring with you.
As to laws and regulations laid down to building and renovation it is a case of bringing your own standards into place but at the same time using Bulgarian local knowledge.
In fact a partnership of foreign management and supervised Bulgarian workforce is the real secret of success, unless you are totally determined to cut corners and pay the price further down the line.
Work done to correct regulated specification will stand the test of time with this set up. Many building companies here now have this working hierarchy in action BRE Building Services for one. Many of course don't but that's the choice in the building and renovation market.
You have to understand the Bulgarian mentality to understand why regulations are ignored in the main, then you may come to terms with accepting this as the Bulgarian way.
There is of course no excuse for foreigners who come here and feel that this loophole in regulated practices in the building trade can be ignored to the detriment of clients they hood-wink. These clients are preyed upon from the point of their naivety and business exchanged just from the point of English speaking comforts. This is very short lived as in many cases, The 'Queen's English' brigade move on with their pockets lined with the crown jewels and the now much wiser clients dethroned of their right to regulated adhered renovation finding their castle crumbling around them.
How many times have I heard of these stories? Too many! When will people learn that you pay peanuts to monkeys in the main or for a better analogy, you pay beans you get cowboys!
Just one other point about guarantees - Many have guarantees as a selling point but a guarantee is difficult and in some cases near on impossible to take up. The assurance factor is suddenly taken away with the frustrations that set in with, not least because the work that been done in the first place was not up to standard. In Bulgaria, building and renovation in many cases guarantees currently are just about as practical as an ash tray on a motorbike!
Welcome to Bulgaria a world of differences you have to be here to believe!
But all said and done, that's one of the beauties of the country and its people who in the main build and renovate things as cheaply as possible! The term 'long term investment' really doesn't have any meaning here - They live in a world for today!
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