We are building a custom home and once our plans were submitted to county for approval we hired our builder. There have been some major errors our architect made thus far such as designing a driveway only 18ft wide (we would not be able to get into garage), moving the position of our house without our knowledge and the latest is he never designed the house with an HVAC. Due to no HVAC in mind with the design of the home, our builder has been having to go back to find where to put the ducts and the systems. He finally presented a system that would have 1st floor vents on the ceiling-the issue is most of our great room is pitched to the 2nd floor so the heat would go straight up and we would be left with a cold room. Further, I told my architect we wanted vents on our floors (I have it in email as well). The major issue is now the builder has to go back in, take out the floor joists and excavate and dig in order to get an under floor system. This will cost an additional $10-$12K. The architect is not taking any responsibility for this. To note he did design two homes next to us with a similar floor plan but "remembered" to keep the design in mind with an HVAC system, their vents are on the floor. Shouldn't he be responsible for this?
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