Nina76
2010-07-22 15:54:01
- #1
Hello everyone,
I really hope you can somehow help me.
My husband and I have been building a single-family house in solid construction since the beginning of March with a construction company from OWL.
So far, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong for us. But last Friday was the absolute best.
I had spoken with our energy supplier to apply for the house connections. It turned out that the craftsmen had laid the wrong pipe for us. Normal KG pipes were used, but one pipe should have been a pressure-water-tested pipe. In addition, the pipes were cut flush with the floor and are placed way too close to each other.
Without the said pressure-water-tested pipe, our energy supplier refuses to install the connections. Hooray. We were now suggested from another source to slightly chip the floor around the water pipe and then lay a small piece of the other pipe over it and then close everything again. That way, it would basically look perfect later when the energy supplier comes to connect.
Okay, if that could work. But my real question is: Can you withhold money for such botched work on the construction? Apart from the fact that nothing has really gone as originally agreed so far. Here are some examples:
- The rainwater pipe in the garage slab was completely forgotten
- By mistake, a wastewater pipe was built on the ground floor directly under a floor-to-ceiling window. When this was noticed, the outside wall was chipped open and the pipe was installed there. However, not below the frost line.
- Floor-to-ceiling windows were installed so "floor-to-ceiling" that now we can only get at most 10 cm of screed on the upper floor because the bottom edge of the windows is as much as 12 cm away from the raw floor. How on earth are we supposed to lay tiles or underfloor heating there?
- They simply installed a front door for us. Although in the color we contractually agreed on, but without letting us choose one beforehand.
- Ventilation pipes were completely forgotten and now they are tearing down the thermal insulation we installed ourselves again and expect us to put it back up without complaining.
- Exactly today, it has been 7 weeks since we last saw a construction worker on our site, no one tells us why and we are always put off
We always pay only after the completion of a trade, but these issues were noticed later. Our construction manager does not see all this as so serious, but we are really at the end of our tether by now.
It simply no longer brings us joy to go to the construction site, either because nothing has happened again because no craftsman was there, or because another mishap comes up again.
What do you think, how should we proceed? We have already threatened with a lawyer. But that didn't help either.
Many thanks
Nina
I really hope you can somehow help me.
My husband and I have been building a single-family house in solid construction since the beginning of March with a construction company from OWL.
So far, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong for us. But last Friday was the absolute best.
I had spoken with our energy supplier to apply for the house connections. It turned out that the craftsmen had laid the wrong pipe for us. Normal KG pipes were used, but one pipe should have been a pressure-water-tested pipe. In addition, the pipes were cut flush with the floor and are placed way too close to each other.
Without the said pressure-water-tested pipe, our energy supplier refuses to install the connections. Hooray. We were now suggested from another source to slightly chip the floor around the water pipe and then lay a small piece of the other pipe over it and then close everything again. That way, it would basically look perfect later when the energy supplier comes to connect.
Okay, if that could work. But my real question is: Can you withhold money for such botched work on the construction? Apart from the fact that nothing has really gone as originally agreed so far. Here are some examples:
- The rainwater pipe in the garage slab was completely forgotten
- By mistake, a wastewater pipe was built on the ground floor directly under a floor-to-ceiling window. When this was noticed, the outside wall was chipped open and the pipe was installed there. However, not below the frost line.
- Floor-to-ceiling windows were installed so "floor-to-ceiling" that now we can only get at most 10 cm of screed on the upper floor because the bottom edge of the windows is as much as 12 cm away from the raw floor. How on earth are we supposed to lay tiles or underfloor heating there?
- They simply installed a front door for us. Although in the color we contractually agreed on, but without letting us choose one beforehand.
- Ventilation pipes were completely forgotten and now they are tearing down the thermal insulation we installed ourselves again and expect us to put it back up without complaining.
- Exactly today, it has been 7 weeks since we last saw a construction worker on our site, no one tells us why and we are always put off
We always pay only after the completion of a trade, but these issues were noticed later. Our construction manager does not see all this as so serious, but we are really at the end of our tether by now.
It simply no longer brings us joy to go to the construction site, either because nothing has happened again because no craftsman was there, or because another mishap comes up again.
What do you think, how should we proceed? We have already threatened with a lawyer. But that didn't help either.
Many thanks
Nina