ᐅ The windows are smaller than specified in the building permit/planning permission or construction plans.
Created on: 22 Dec 2019 18:57
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Sunshine12345
Hello,
we have a problem with the windows in our new build. Unfortunately, the discrepancy was only discovered after the house handover. According to the building permit/plans, the windows should be 6cm (2.5 inches) taller than they currently are. The sill height is also 6cm (2.5 inches) too high. This is very frustrating for us, as this height was a compromise and I would have preferred even larger windows...
Does anyone have advice on how to proceed?
Thank you very much
we have a problem with the windows in our new build. Unfortunately, the discrepancy was only discovered after the house handover. According to the building permit/plans, the windows should be 6cm (2.5 inches) taller than they currently are. The sill height is also 6cm (2.5 inches) too high. This is very frustrating for us, as this height was a compromise and I would have preferred even larger windows...
Does anyone have advice on how to proceed?
Thank you very much
There are homeowners who rarely visit the construction site. Not every general contractor assigns a site manager. Who should be asked?
Houses nowadays have nothing in common with those from back then. If there are only two types of houses without variations, then one can expect everything to work and have the correct dimensions.
Pinkiponk schrieb:
I agree with you, but I also believe that since 9500 to 8200 BCE, houses (with the first dry stone walls) have been built, so despite changes, it should eventually work out.
If you complete a three-year training in your trade and then work in the field for years or decades, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect competence.
Houses nowadays have nothing in common with those from back then. If there are only two types of houses without variations, then one can expect everything to work and have the correct dimensions.
I don’t understand. Where are there only two types? Here, there aren’t really any types; instead, you start by asking, what exactly do you want? And why was building different in the past? When I was a student working in construction, the building methods were not much different than they are now. That was around 1980.
I see the requirement to work only from valid plans not as "reasonable," but as "necessary"; after all, what use are correctly executed plans from "yesterday"?
It seems to me that some clients and forum participants have a naive view of a site manager, imagining they are usually present at all times, sitting with a whistle on a high chair like a tennis umpire. Besides, the workers laying screed don’t earn their money by asking questions, but by working hard. A construction site is staffed just enough for the physical labor, meaning the personnel ratio is only sufficient, similar to a care home, for basic necessities like food and hygiene. Duties like social interaction, accompanying someone to the hairdresser, reading aloud, or holding hands must be fulfilled by the client themselves. A site manager is not a friendly art teacher guiding workers with paintbrushes. Not to mention that the proportion of semi-skilled laborers is increasing, and most Kurds don’t understand Lithuanian at all.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
It seems to me that some clients and forum participants have a naive view of a site manager, imagining they are usually present at all times, sitting with a whistle on a high chair like a tennis umpire. Besides, the workers laying screed don’t earn their money by asking questions, but by working hard. A construction site is staffed just enough for the physical labor, meaning the personnel ratio is only sufficient, similar to a care home, for basic necessities like food and hygiene. Duties like social interaction, accompanying someone to the hairdresser, reading aloud, or holding hands must be fulfilled by the client themselves. A site manager is not a friendly art teacher guiding workers with paintbrushes. Not to mention that the proportion of semi-skilled laborers is increasing, and most Kurds don’t understand Lithuanian at all.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Mycraft schrieb:
The most prominent example is the BERWho?
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