Small issue:
I am planning (or rather planned) a new build.
An architect was recommended to me who had previously worked on a similar semi-commercial building for someone else.
I contacted him and explained my plans.
He agreed to take on the project. However, it turned out to be extremely slow. He never met the promised deadlines, not even the ones he committed to later. It was very frustrating, and it took almost six months for me to receive any initial floor plan draft. Dozens of promised deadlines were missed, and I always gave him a week before following up.
He then wanted to look into a detail regarding fire protection.
Again, no response came.
At this point, I got fed up and stopped following up.
If I already have to chase him like this now, how will it be once the construction phase starts?
Four months have passed since then, and because I stopped reaching out (yes, with him, you have to keep following up every time a deadline lapses, only to be postponed three more times), he has now sent me an invoice for more than 1000€ for the draft.
I don’t think this amount is reasonable, as it is supposedly based on 21 hours of work, which seems unlikely. If the charge were around 200€, I would pay it since I did receive something and he did do some work.
However, I was never informed that I would have to pay for such a draft. There was no contract, only a few emails where we exchanged drawings.
Now the question is: am I required to pay this (in full)?
He could just have asked for 3000€ straight away, just like that. This can’t be right.
I am planning (or rather planned) a new build.
An architect was recommended to me who had previously worked on a similar semi-commercial building for someone else.
I contacted him and explained my plans.
He agreed to take on the project. However, it turned out to be extremely slow. He never met the promised deadlines, not even the ones he committed to later. It was very frustrating, and it took almost six months for me to receive any initial floor plan draft. Dozens of promised deadlines were missed, and I always gave him a week before following up.
He then wanted to look into a detail regarding fire protection.
Again, no response came.
At this point, I got fed up and stopped following up.
If I already have to chase him like this now, how will it be once the construction phase starts?
Four months have passed since then, and because I stopped reaching out (yes, with him, you have to keep following up every time a deadline lapses, only to be postponed three more times), he has now sent me an invoice for more than 1000€ for the draft.
I don’t think this amount is reasonable, as it is supposedly based on 21 hours of work, which seems unlikely. If the charge were around 200€, I would pay it since I did receive something and he did do some work.
However, I was never informed that I would have to pay for such a draft. There was no contract, only a few emails where we exchanged drawings.
Now the question is: am I required to pay this (in full)?
He could just have asked for 3000€ straight away, just like that. This can’t be right.
TriPower schrieb:
Regarding the other posts, I want to point out that I’m not willing to write off over 1000€ as just a learning cost. 300 is understandable... but not that amount. Considering the work done, it’s just not proportional. I estimate that at most 3 hours of work have been done so far, not 21.Three hundred as a comparison is one thing; I don’t think your chances are that bad. Maybe he counted every bit of delay as an hour of work each week ;-)
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QlriPower13 Apr 2017 20:20If I had a final plan ready for submission, with everything correctly arranged, then I would have something of real value in hand. In that case, it would be fine to bill according to HOAI. But like this... with a preliminary draft that still contains critical errors? *grmpf*