Oh dear. Things have got confusing now.

Got to speak to engineer who told me that he was not coming in. Straight after the project manager phoned to tell me the engineer was coming in today.

Thing is, I am not opposed to a remote install, in fact I requested it and was told it was not an option. I mean I can connect everything up and fire off workstation builds perfectly fine. What I am opposed to is paying full whack for an engineer to be on site for two days and ending up getting a remote install and doing some of the work myself