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I thought I would post about an old 'customer', who, while completely sucky, got exactly what she wanted and deserved.
Pop quiz: you are building a new house, and decide you don't like where a particular door and window are placed. Do you
A) point it out at the blueprint stage, find a better location, and get charged a couple hundred dollars for a new engineer stamp on your new drawings
B) wait until the house is built, point it out, have to get them moved, get several different trades back, move wires, plumbing, brickwork, etc etc, and have to pay about 7000$ for the change
Or
C) wait until the house is built, point it out, have to get them moved, get several different trades back, move wires, plumbing, brickwork, etc etc, and have to pay about 7000$ for the change, over and over and over again
If you answered 'c', congratulations, you just paid $250 000, for an $180 000 house, and I must have worked on it for you. The main thing though, after moving said window and door 11 times, is that they ended up 4" to the back, and 2" to front respectively from where they started. That makes all the difference in both the form and function of the house, right? And that really makes the extra $80 000 and 4 months you spent fixing this 'problem' worth it, doesn't it?
* I am not making these numbers up, one of my relatives was the general on the project, and after going to this house almost once a week for months, to keep doing the same thing after it got ripped out again, I asked him how much this brilliant decision making had ended up costing her.
Pop quiz: you are building a new house, and decide you don't like where a particular door and window are placed. Do you
A) point it out at the blueprint stage, find a better location, and get charged a couple hundred dollars for a new engineer stamp on your new drawings
B) wait until the house is built, point it out, have to get them moved, get several different trades back, move wires, plumbing, brickwork, etc etc, and have to pay about 7000$ for the change
Or
C) wait until the house is built, point it out, have to get them moved, get several different trades back, move wires, plumbing, brickwork, etc etc, and have to pay about 7000$ for the change, over and over and over again
If you answered 'c', congratulations, you just paid $250 000, for an $180 000 house, and I must have worked on it for you. The main thing though, after moving said window and door 11 times, is that they ended up 4" to the back, and 2" to front respectively from where they started. That makes all the difference in both the form and function of the house, right? And that really makes the extra $80 000 and 4 months you spent fixing this 'problem' worth it, doesn't it?
* I am not making these numbers up, one of my relatives was the general on the project, and after going to this house almost once a week for months, to keep doing the same thing after it got ripped out again, I asked him how much this brilliant decision making had ended up costing her.
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