ubat
2009-08-27 00:19:14
- #1
Hello everyone,
since we no longer know what to do and do not want to involve a lawyer yet, I hope to find help here.
The situation is this: since February/March we have been having a semi-detached house built through an architectural firm. The shell construction and installation are done, currently the windows are being installed and serious problems are now arising.
1. Problem window: kitchen window.
3.00m wide overall, and according to all plans 50cm of glass surface height. The installed window has 35cm of glass surface height. The architect and construction manager have known about the error for two weeks, yet the window was still installed and insulated this week, no steps were taken for replacement.
Letter with deadline, nothing happened. What helps besides a lawyer?
2. Problem window: division of a three-part window
Here the situation is somewhat more complicated.
We have a plan attached in the notary contract. Since then we have made several changes and received new, updated floor plans each time.
The window in question was never changed; however, apparently a mistake was made by the architectural firm so that on all the plans we received after the contract conclusion, this window is proportioned differently than in the plan attached to the contract.
Of course, we did not expect something like this and did not compare the plans from the contract with the new plans.
We want the window as it is in the current plans.
The architect is now evasive and claims that the plan attached to the contract is valid. But this is total nonsense, after all much of this plan does not correspond with the actual construction, which was carried out "largely" according to the current plan.
So several plans were used, the original plan for the window in question and the updated plan for the rest.
We have received the current plans multiple times in signed emails and also printed from the architectural firm; the window was always as desired there. The plans are dated and in my professional world the plan with the latest date is the _valid_ plan.
The architect is also absolutely obstructive here and we do not know what to do; as mentioned, a lawyer should be avoided at first.
... a lot of text, I hope someone has good ideas about what we can do. These are only small things from which one can easily buy oneself out, but with further defects the architect insists again that we simply pay, after all he would have had us pay for his mistakes once before.
Many thanks in advance to the hopefully savior in distress!
since we no longer know what to do and do not want to involve a lawyer yet, I hope to find help here.
The situation is this: since February/March we have been having a semi-detached house built through an architectural firm. The shell construction and installation are done, currently the windows are being installed and serious problems are now arising.
1. Problem window: kitchen window.
3.00m wide overall, and according to all plans 50cm of glass surface height. The installed window has 35cm of glass surface height. The architect and construction manager have known about the error for two weeks, yet the window was still installed and insulated this week, no steps were taken for replacement.
Letter with deadline, nothing happened. What helps besides a lawyer?
2. Problem window: division of a three-part window
Here the situation is somewhat more complicated.
We have a plan attached in the notary contract. Since then we have made several changes and received new, updated floor plans each time.
The window in question was never changed; however, apparently a mistake was made by the architectural firm so that on all the plans we received after the contract conclusion, this window is proportioned differently than in the plan attached to the contract.
Of course, we did not expect something like this and did not compare the plans from the contract with the new plans.
We want the window as it is in the current plans.
The architect is now evasive and claims that the plan attached to the contract is valid. But this is total nonsense, after all much of this plan does not correspond with the actual construction, which was carried out "largely" according to the current plan.
So several plans were used, the original plan for the window in question and the updated plan for the rest.
We have received the current plans multiple times in signed emails and also printed from the architectural firm; the window was always as desired there. The plans are dated and in my professional world the plan with the latest date is the _valid_ plan.
The architect is also absolutely obstructive here and we do not know what to do; as mentioned, a lawyer should be avoided at first.
... a lot of text, I hope someone has good ideas about what we can do. These are only small things from which one can easily buy oneself out, but with further defects the architect insists again that we simply pay, after all he would have had us pay for his mistakes once before.
Many thanks in advance to the hopefully savior in distress!