Hello,
we built in a new development area where the roads had not yet been properly constructed.
Our construction company poured the foundation slab relatively high (about 50cm (20 inches) higher than the other buildings). The driveway paving was not included at that time. We hired a paving company to install the driveway. Now that the local authority has started road construction, it turns out that our driveway cannot be connected to the road. The driveway is about 15-20cm (6-8 inches) too high. The paving company wants to adjust the driveway for €2000. But is this reasonable? Shouldn’t the construction company have aligned with the other houses and coordinated with the local authority regarding the road? I was never asked to provide any documents related to the road. Does anyone have experience with this?
we built in a new development area where the roads had not yet been properly constructed.
Our construction company poured the foundation slab relatively high (about 50cm (20 inches) higher than the other buildings). The driveway paving was not included at that time. We hired a paving company to install the driveway. Now that the local authority has started road construction, it turns out that our driveway cannot be connected to the road. The driveway is about 15-20cm (6-8 inches) too high. The paving company wants to adjust the driveway for €2000. But is this reasonable? Shouldn’t the construction company have aligned with the other houses and coordinated with the local authority regarding the road? I was never asked to provide any documents related to the road. Does anyone have experience with this?
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STREUSALZ18 Aug 2016 12:05I have now involved the site manager, who will take a look at it.
PS: When someone in IT commissions a service, we ask the necessary questions to complete the task correctly. Since I/the customer am not an expert, these questions need to be asked to me. However, they were not.
PS: When someone in IT commissions a service, we ask the necessary questions to complete the task correctly. Since I/the customer am not an expert, these questions need to be asked to me. However, they were not.
STREUSALZ schrieb:
I didn’t consider that some contractors don’t think in terms of 12 noon. The contractor also couldn’t have known that some builders don’t think of 12 noon as the starting point.
@Jochen104 @HilfeHilfe:
I’m on your side: It should have been properly commissioned, BUT:
I believe the craftsman also shares some of the blame – if no specific instructions are given, just doing the work as is isn’t necessarily correct. Especially since this is a professional-to-layperson situation! From my point of view, both parties share part of the responsibility here.
I’m on your side: It should have been properly commissioned, BUT:
I believe the craftsman also shares some of the blame – if no specific instructions are given, just doing the work as is isn’t necessarily correct. Especially since this is a professional-to-layperson situation! From my point of view, both parties share part of the responsibility here.
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STREUSALZ18 Aug 2016 13:10Yes, and I commissioned a driveway. A driveway naturally includes the access to it. Therefore, in my opinion, the task was not carried out correctly. Since the paver knew that a road would be added here later, it should at least have been possible to construct the driveway with minimal adjustment costs. According to the cost breakdown, this is not the case.
When building a house, I don’t explicitly mention that the stairs still need to be usable after laying carpet, either. That is obvious to me.
Or where is my thinking flawed?
When building a house, I don’t explicitly mention that the stairs still need to be usable after laying carpet, either. That is obvious to me.
Or where is my thinking flawed?
STREUSALZ schrieb:
Or where is my flaw in reasoning?The issue is that you didn’t define clearly enough in the "Statement of Work" or specifications how it should look (to use IT terminology).