I am in a bit of a mess. I signed a contract to build an extension but in doing the works (two weeks in) the builders discovered that the drains were too shallow to build the extension as planned.
I have been told by the architect managing the project that I am liable to pay the builder for all the work I signed for, and that not doing the extension will be hellishly expensive. They are urging me to move forward by making the entire house dependent on an electric pump, which I do not want to do (and I would not have agreed to this project if that were the condition). Meanwhile the house has been gutted and the garden excavated so it's not a question of walking away from building works - I am going to have to reinstate everything as well as pay the builders for any loss of earnings.
My question now is: where does the responsibility lie? Should the architects have established the depth of the drains before works started? They say it was hard to do this as the drains were not easily accessible (part buried under concrete).
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siftingflour · 06/12/2017 21:22
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