We paid an Architect £5000 for details drawings relating to a house renovation. We asked the architect to go and check on works progress but he said that we hadn't agreed site visits and it would cost us extra. We are pretty confident about our builders having worked with them before so we just went with the very detailed plans. The builder said that the IKEA kitchen wouldn't fit but that he would put in a Howdens kitchen and we wouldn't even notice the difference. Well needless to say the kitchen is a complete mess, Howdens don't do high wall units so we have half the space and lots of patchwork cobbled together units. We have said that it is no good and we will need the original IKEA one put in. The builder says that it would never fit and that the architects drawings were incorrect. However it seems obvious that they built the downstairs WC too big (and not according to the plans) and that is why it doesn't fit. I have e-mailed the architect asking him to come and have a lookn and just confirm the accuracy of his calculations. He says it's not his problem and that any small discrepancies should have come up before construction began. Even though I suspect there is nothing wrong with his plans I am annoyed that having taken so much money from us he doesn't have any duty of care to us or responsibilities for his drawings. The builders say they will redo the work but that it won't be at their expense. We have pretty much run out of money and are at our wits end. Can anyone advise?