Wrong construction company - only stress during house building

  • Erstellt am 2024-03-22 18:07:42

Spiderman1982

2024-03-23 08:43:19
  • #1
I had the constant upgrade requests because they failed to plan a complete house for me before signing the contract. What is good about a 1cm insulation under the exterior windowsill when 3cm are installed in the window reveal? I do not expect the water on the underlay membrane to be a raging river. The general contractor is rushing his subcontractors on me. Nothing is peaceful here anymore.
 

ypg

2024-03-23 10:34:00
  • #2

Sorry, but you didn’t have to sign yet. You can’t really talk your way out of it.
As for the technical part, I guess no one can say much here because the topics are only briefly touched on/have been touched on.


What are they doing? Chasing you? Biting? Honestly, I have to think of the joke about the highway.
Radio: On the highway there is a wrong-way driver.
Driver: One? Several!

Sometimes you are the problem yourself. And you can tell quite well if _everyone_ thinks the others are making mistakes. The likelihood that _everyone_ is somehow not quite right is very, very low. And I have never heard of a SUB siding with the GC. Usually they are like fire and water but dependent on each other, a so-called love-hate relationship.
As already said: building a house is always stressful! And there are no powder puffs from the contractor. But that doesn’t mean many things can’t run correctly and normally. Many have an exaggerated idea of how building a house will go (colorful advertising, tidy construction sites, polished construction vehicles, and in the end you receive the golden key to the turnkey house) – maybe you are one of those?
I also don’t know whether you really understand what you are writing here yourself:

To me that means: you see a defect, the construction supervisor rather doesn’t. But you make out that the construction company is causing trouble and not admitting something. From how it reads here, I rather think you have to admit to yourself that it simply is not a defect.
And as already said: relying on your crystal ball and thinking you know better beforehand often doesn’t make life easier, especially if you don’t look properly.
 

Nida35a

2024-03-23 11:02:08
  • #3
Then expect that you will be banned from entering the construction site. Apparently, you are really annoying the general contractor and are interfering as a theorist in agreements between the GC and subs.
 

hanse987

2024-03-23 11:26:36
  • #4
Why did you sign then? You can also have your house planned first and then look for the contractor.
 

11ant

2024-03-23 11:33:42
  • #5
Why you signed the construction contract for a house not yet ready for signature-worthy planning requires explanation! Did you want to take advantage of a Nurnochheute price before the contract had any content? We don’t know the details of your house – explain yourself why it should be different here! A sentence like a headline in Bild, Express, or Kronenzeitung – unfortunately again without any comprehensible content. If I were the GC, I would also seek a conversation: I assume that the OP does not understand the details of the working drawings in many places and asks the "site supervisor," who according to his semi-technical knowledge googles some additional information as needed and thereby finds inconsistent rulings. In the entire thread history of the OP, I have not found a clear indication of objective botchery by the GC – but plenty of points of a diffuse (and probably treated with the wrong remedy by the "site supervisor") fear that the GC might try to keep his price promise by dishonest savings measures.

My impression – which the OP has nowhere substantially dispelled – is that here a GC – probably neither a gem nor a disgrace to his profession, but an average so-and-so – faces a layman with the ascendant of a phobic and his semi-knowledgeable assistant and perhaps should simply be allowed to do his job. Because, as said: So far the OP has not produced any proof of objective bungling; only disagreements about professional execution or even just dimensioning (mostly of minor building components). No nanogram of malice is needed for a ghost driver suspicion.
 

hanghaus2023

2024-03-24 15:25:46
  • #6

Also, hello,

How do you know that this is not true?

When I read the comments here, it seems important to have a clarifying conversation.

Or do you think that

is well received by the contractor?
I would also seek a conversation before I hire a collection agency.


Then slow down a bit. The contractor is already offering you a clarifying conversation.

Could it be that you are only this angry because the change orders are throwing your financial planning into chaos?



In my opinion, there are always two sides to the coin. I only know your side. Therefore, I don’t have an opinion here that can help further.

I could offer to help as a mediator. However, the risk is too high for me that I would then have to chase my payment.
 

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