We're doing a big job on our house - deep retrofit, new layout, large extension, block-built garden room. The garden room is the first thing being built for access reasons and the builders are nearly finished blocking up the walls (started last week). Come to find out yesterday that the walls were all built 10cm in from where they should have been according to the plans so that the whole thing is 20cm narrower and 20cm shorter than it was supposed to be. Now 20cm doesn't sound like much but the effect is that the space will be 10% smaller than planned. It was tight as it was because we wanted to leave as much garden as we could.
What would you do in this situation? The architect just mentioned it fairly casually when we were talking about the roof and sort of said that these things happen and you can't ask somebody to rebuild something for the sake of 10cm. The mistake is with the size of the foundation so rectifying it would require pulling out the walls and the foundation and re-doing, which will cause delays with the whole build as well as costing the builder a good bit of money.
Thoughts? Advice?
Thanks
What would you do in this situation? The architect just mentioned it fairly casually when we were talking about the roof and sort of said that these things happen and you can't ask somebody to rebuild something for the sake of 10cm. The mistake is with the size of the foundation so rectifying it would require pulling out the walls and the foundation and re-doing, which will cause delays with the whole build as well as costing the builder a good bit of money.
Thoughts? Advice?
Thanks