I'm sick of this! Another sunny day and no movement on site. Again.
On Monday we had a meeting with the builder and home company to discuss the many issues that needed addressing. 3 hours later, I felt like we hadn't resolved a whole lot and I'm stuck writing the minutes and emailing them to everyone.
Let me list the things I'm really frustrated about (it's my blog, I can vent if I want to!):
1) Everything is costing more $$$$. What happened to the fixed price contract?
2) The slab has to be cut. Why wasn't it poured correctly the first time? Builder says the plans were wrong (they're not, we checked).
3) The framer didn't have the right set of plans and framed up some of the windows incorrectly. Now it
4) The home company didn't merge two sets of drawings, hence, point 3.
5) The outside roof wasn't built. Now it is, but why wasn't it done the first time?? Why do we have to draw their attention to things that are on the plan?
I should be clear here...we haven't changed the plans since they were lodged to council last year. We'd just like our house built to plan...that's all.
6) The builder only received our list of inclusions for the house this week. Yep, that's right, his boss signed the contract back in November and he only found out what was included in the build cost on Monday.
We wondered why he was confused when we were discussing flooring / fences / tiling - all things we'd negotiated in the beginning.
Now we've got no one on site because the house builder doesn't believe the house can be built to plan (this info would have been handy 5 months ago). The home company is looking into an effective solution (to be honest, a lot of houses are built this way, I don't know what the builder's problem is). Until both parties find a solution, we're just watching an empty work site. Utterly frustrating.
No doubt, (another) compromise will have to be made (by us) and the cost will increase (again).
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