Construction defects - Damage control?

2020-02-13 20:15:25

Especially after such long planning, external quality control should not have been missing. Who is tendering the trades for the interior finishing and coordinating them? Someone is somehow fixing the shoddy work right now. If necessary, put the money for the staircase modification into the defect rectification. For the interior finishing, get a builder/expert or whatever. Eventually, you will live in the house and the trouble will fade.

2020-02-13 20:20:57

No, you are not supposed to do that, I didn’t say that either.
What I’m concerned about is how much effort it would take to redo the roof, meaning which works need to be redone, which material must first be removed and then reapplied to the roof. From your explanations, it’s not clear to me whether there really is a technical defect (leakage) now, or if it is just "unsightly," with a bit of water standing on it, but otherwise still watertight.
Without an actual technical defect, in the end proportionate measures will determine what can still be repaired on the roof.

No, it’s about the money that is still available beyond that. The money you want to use for subsequent staircase changes. That could also be spent again for a second or even third opinion on how best to waterproof the basement. Because the structural builder will only do repairs. That doesn’t necessarily have to be the best solution. The best solution might be something that was originally not even planned, but now would be better and cause extra costs. That’s what I meant.

To me, it’s a total loss if you have to rebuild due to the height and the structural builder simultaneously declares insolvency. Then you can really write off the €250,000. But currently a solution is being worked on. Total loss for one’s own nerves, but objectively the construction can still be saved.

Tassimat,
the roof is not flat, so sooner or later there will be standing water or leakage as a consequence.

You are very right about the second and third opinion. We want to do that as well.

At the moment, the planning change with the company is progressing very slowly. The new commercial managing director is unstable, changing statements.

2020-02-14 06:25:40

haydee, you are absolutely right - we should have hired a construction manager or expert. we thought about it for 10 years, talked to companies and planned, and then were somehow paralyzed by our own "courage" to finally start. everything happened so quickly and we could hardly believe we were actually building now.

Forget it. We had a construction manager and they completely failed. It’s no guarantee that we would have done significantly better without one and saved money as well.

2020-02-14 06:43:39

That's why you can take an expert ...plus informed yourself at every step that is taken and be there

2020-02-14 08:05:36

Forget it. We had site management and it completely failed. There is no guarantee we would have done significantly better without it and even saved money.

But that's really too general. Just because the specific person in your case apparently was not a master of their craft, you can't claim that it basically achieves nothing!! And otherwise... it seems to me the OP should look forward as much as possible, constructively. What defects are there, how can they be fixed, what does it cost. And then tackle the matter. Possibly with another company if the current one is unmanageable. It doesn't help to sink into what all does not work, that the current company would rather go bankrupt than fix defects, etc. That won’t finish the house either. Somehow find the view forward again, not backward. And I would invest the remaining money into completion and not fiddle with the floor plan (or the staircase).

2020-02-14 08:08:39

That's why you can take an expert ... plus someone well-informed oneself at every step that is taken and be present

An expert during the construction phase PLUS a site manager are already big additional costs.

and unfortunately not everyone can be there – because of 50 hours per week, or WHERE would our 3 children be if I were at the construction site 8 hours every day? WHO would have looked after them? unfortunately, it’s not that simple. The construction supervision also maybe comes 1-2 times a week if not less often and not for the whole day….

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