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As someone who has worked hundreds of construction defect cases in commercial buildings, what you want to hire is a forensic engineer that goes behind and writes reports/does litigation against builders who fuck up. They know EXACTLY what to look for, and their job is to make sure it's done "right."
I've hired this guy on many projects and he's always done good work:
B. Andrew Hayes, AIA, LEED AP | Rimkus
Mr. Drew Hayes is a graduate of the Texas Tech University College of Architecture with a Master of Architecture degree. As a registered architect in the State of Texas, he has over 22 years of architectural building, site, planning, construction, remodel/adaptive reuse, and development design...rimkus.com
I'm not saying hire that guy, but someone like that who does inspections and construction management. The "inspectors" that come to look for your $500 pre-purchase inspection or whatever basically makes sure the appliances work and there aren't catastrophic leaks or something. I remember watching the guy in my house and he was like temperature testing the oven to make sure the setting was reasonably accurate. I remember him saying something like "well it's accurate, so if your turkey is dry its your fault."
So helpful, thank you sir, I could never have done that myself.
I'll look at the list I have and see if anyone on their staff is similar or provides similar services. The list I made last year was definitely outside of the "home inspection" companies and specialized in new builds, foundation design, etc. But that's a good reference to use and do some more searching before we get there.
No updates really on anything plan related unfortunately. Still moving very slowly. Doing a lot of exterior elevation work still, multiple options while a couple of internal things are tweaked.
This kind of isolates the entry and instead of making it a huge two-story entrance it creates a small porch and keeps some stone up to the second story. I'm not sold completely, the extra stone looks a little heavy. I also tried to balance the porch and entry to make it more centered. Need to go back and ask him to fix the roofline. There's some oddities there that we're not sure why they exist. Nothing is going on in the right side of the house second story or to the side or back elevation that should require that huge bump in the roof. I'm not an architect but it seems strange if that is just a design element and not functional. I like that there's still detail here on the entry and center mass but worry that it is too much and too gaudy or overwrought.
Other option was something like this that would adjust the area above the entry and make that an enclosed landing and maybe reduce the need / use for a larger window. I like the idea of an open two story entry, both of my previous houses had that. Also had the roofline flattened on this render to see what it would look like. Materials, colors, etc aren't finalized or anything. Just playing around. Wife wants something "blue" or dark, trying to convince her we need something lighter b/c it'll fade and need to be repainted. It is a little "coastal" farmhosue or something, but it is more in line with what I want that is "plain" haha.
Still back to the disappointment on the length of time this is taking and am like "can I just pay someone another $10k to finish this because this guy is taking too freaking long to do anything" train.