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Originally Posted by milt
For instance, his drawings showed and were dependent on a concrete footing that was never there.
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I left my X-Ray glasses at the last office I worked at.
Contractors charge more for the unknown and changes, so do architects. Such is the risk to the owner of an existing building.
What has happened in the past is I have not charged for my extra time if it is with in reason, most small jobs will have an extra day's worth of unexpected changes to them, I build it into the price.
The General Contractor may waive his time to solve the problem and not
mark up the new work.
For example we had to add helical piers to a foundation because of poor soil (foundation inspector caught it - permits are a good thing) after the owner insisted the soil was great from the start of the project -
it's baby poop (soil testers exact words). I found the lowest cost soil tester and helical pier contractor - no reward other than a happy client.