ivenh0
2019-08-12 14:44:42
- #1
Hello everyone,
unfortunately, I have to address an unpleasant topic today. Fortunately, our construction went very, very smoothly. However, it is now becoming clear that the quantities in the bills of quantities from our architect were completely wrong. The problem is: cost control was not possible at any time, or we thought we were more or less on track since the total of the bids was somewhat accurate. Now that the final invoices are arriving, it turns out that our architect’s bills of quantities were quite poor.
For example, the sealing work areas were only specified for the roof, but not for the terrace. Or painting and plastering work were incorrectly tendered to such an extent that we have now received reports for more than €20,000 on the final invoice. For instance, full-surface fabric plastering of the exterior facade for €6,000 (which we only found out about by chance when it was being carried out). It should be noted that we did not commission or approve any of these "additional services" and quantity increases.
What is the legal situation here? And what about the practice?
In the end, it is extremely frustrating for us that we have been misled cost-wise the whole time and had no transparency, as we calculated based on the bid prices and the final invoices are now naturally significantly more expensive due to the incomplete bills of quantities.
Can the architect be held liable for this or did I just have bad luck?
Best regards
ivenh0
unfortunately, I have to address an unpleasant topic today. Fortunately, our construction went very, very smoothly. However, it is now becoming clear that the quantities in the bills of quantities from our architect were completely wrong. The problem is: cost control was not possible at any time, or we thought we were more or less on track since the total of the bids was somewhat accurate. Now that the final invoices are arriving, it turns out that our architect’s bills of quantities were quite poor.
For example, the sealing work areas were only specified for the roof, but not for the terrace. Or painting and plastering work were incorrectly tendered to such an extent that we have now received reports for more than €20,000 on the final invoice. For instance, full-surface fabric plastering of the exterior facade for €6,000 (which we only found out about by chance when it was being carried out). It should be noted that we did not commission or approve any of these "additional services" and quantity increases.
What is the legal situation here? And what about the practice?
In the end, it is extremely frustrating for us that we have been misled cost-wise the whole time and had no transparency, as we calculated based on the bid prices and the final invoices are now naturally significantly more expensive due to the incomplete bills of quantities.
Can the architect be held liable for this or did I just have bad luck?
Best regards
ivenh0