I don't know how much more of this I can take. We thought that building our dream home would be fun, exciting and a highlight of our life. However, it has been everything BUT that! We signed the contract in July 2007 and they started digging the foundation in September 2007. It is now January 2009...and we are still not done. It has been 16 months!
The tardiness of the build is the least of my stresses. Here are some of the low-lights of the build:
-A 3 month delay waiting on approval of the "tall wall". This should never have been an issue since it was clearly stated on the blueprints that the wall needed to be framed a specific way, but he ignored it.
-Having to re-frame the "tall wall" after the rest of the house was already drywalled.
-The window guys installing 3 of the wrong windows and then forgetting to order the right ones for about 2 months.
-Plumber guy giving our boiler away to another job then having to re-order another one for us.
-Plumber guy ordering the WRONG boiler, so he installed a smaller one until the right one came in and then switched it out.
-Granite guy cut the granite the wrong size, so he gave us a more expensive granite for the same price.
-The fireplace guys ordered the wrong mantle and had to re-order the right one.
-The cabinet guy ordered vanities that were all counter height, not vanity height. Two inches were cut off of all of the toe kicks to the vanities.
-Cabinet guy not ordering the pull-out step for the kids' vanity, then ordering the wrong parts and having to re-order the correct parts.
-Someone breaking into the house and gouging 10 walls in the basement. These all need to be filled, sanded and re-painted.
-After turning on the in-floor heating in the master ensuite, finding that there is a leak and having to cut a whole in the garage ceiling (which was completely finished off) to find the problem.
-Our builder informing us that his insurance expires today and that we should insure the house! WHATEVER!? Insure a house that we do not have posession of? Yeah, right!
-Countless letters to our builder's lawyer to get a posession date. Still no date.
So, I'm trying to be excited, happy and feel so lucky that we will eventually get into our dream home, but at this point, it is really hard to look past all of the trials, problems and stress. Wayne has done almost all of the contracting work himself. So why are we paying our builder the big bucks?
3 comments:
sounds like you need Mike Holmes. :)
My brother's a lawyer ... want his #? He'll set them straight!
I would LOVE Mike Holmes to come in and finish the house for us! And we do have a lawyer who has been writing and calling the other lawyer. They just don't respond back. I know it will be worth it when it is done. I just don't like the stress!
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