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Posted by on November 30, 2006, 7:09 pm
Sasquatch wrote:
> We've got a serious problem with our new house. While visiting the job
> site today, I noticed the first floor seemed to be sagging in one
> corner of the master bedroom. I couldn't believe it. I told the
> foreman, and he started checking it out. He went down in the basement
> and I could hear him yelling to the other guys. They were down there
> for about a half hour, and when I went down to see what was going on
> they met me at the steps and told me they had to work on something, and
> that they'd call me later. They never called, so I went back out and
> confronted them in the basement. I couldn't believe what I found. It
> was worse than when I left. Then entire floor had caved in. They were
> blaming it on the architect, who was already out there, saying the
> beams he specified were not adequate, and the architect was blaming it
> on them, saying that it should have been assumed that they also needed
> to use certain joists, blah, blah, blah... Bottom line is that the
> entire mess is caving in, and the builder says he wants nothing to do
> with it, and he's quitting the job. What do I do now?!? Somebody
> please help!
>
> - John
Yikes, sounds hauntingly familiar to what a friend of mine went thru
with builder quitting job. She got some helpful info from
http://www.hadd.com regarding what steps to take in a dipsute, to
protect your own interests, and www.jlconline.com and
http://www.buildingscience.com as far as sorting out who had done what
wrong. I can't recall any of the other links she talked about offhand.
The real problems began when the builder, who'd quit, demanded the
rest of the money. Good luck.
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