Saturday, September 20, 2014

Hmm. Something doesn't seem right

9-20-14.  After the walls started going up and I could really get a feel of the footprint of the house, I noticed something wasn't right.  Although the basement will not be finished when the house is completed, we've been planning how we want to utilize the space.  Quick sketches of wall placement, carving out room for storage, bathroom roughs, etc.  Standing on the elevator pad, I realized that the corners of the walls weren't lining up correctly.


 The angled corner in the center of this picture seemed off.  I called the framer (Matt) who said that the surveyors staked the corners of the house using the values from the blueprint, but he would go out the next day and measure things.  He mentioned that sometimes, blueprints don't transfer exactly to the real world, but I still felt that there was too much deviation to ignore.
  After mulling it over a bit, I took one of the aerial shots of the build and super imposed a the scaled blue print.  Sure enough, my suspicions were correct.  I emailed this picture off to the framer and he said he'll take measurements.

Matt said that he measured the wall lengths against the blueprint and everything was correct, but agreed that something was off.  A few hours later he discovered the issue.  The wall marked in white was labeled as a 22' wall on the blueprint, but if you took ruler to paper, it should measure 26'.  Some time in the revision process, the numerical measurement of that wall was not corrected and resulted in an incorrect corner stake.  Had it not been caught, this would have reduced space in the basement and first floor, resulting in a loss of a closet in the mudroom and a change of plans for the basement.  Luckily concrete wasn't poured in the walls and a fix was possible.

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