Yes, back designing houses, drawing plans, even building another model, this time using wooden blocks to give it structure (which of my children's playthings can I steal to use next?). All the things that I shouldn't have to do having employed an architect...
We have a meeting with the other architectural designer and, rather than give him a blank sheet we want him to QA, improve upon, and draw properly, our scheme. He may, very professionally, talk us out of that route, or even walk away. We're prepared to buy him a coffee, though, down the pub, if that helps secure his services.
Meanwhile, on the knotty Knott issue, here's our self-explanatory and, we hope, business-like letter to him, CAD files having arrived:
We have a meeting with the other architectural designer and, rather than give him a blank sheet we want him to QA, improve upon, and draw properly, our scheme. He may, very professionally, talk us out of that route, or even walk away. We're prepared to buy him a coffee, though, down the pub, if that helps secure his services.
Meanwhile, on the knotty Knott issue, here's our self-explanatory and, we hope, business-like letter to him, CAD files having arrived:
We are writing in relation to the above invoice, dated 25 November 2011, though only emailed on 28 November. Having considered the outputs of our meeting of 16 November 2011 we feel it appropriate to only pay half of this invoice for the following reasons:
I. When we met on 14 October 2011 we clarified the deliverables of each stage. Our understanding was that the output of the first stage of the process would be a design that would meet the client’s brief to the client’s satisfaction. We therefore assumed that it would therefore allow for some appropriate degree of iteration.
We have already written expressing our disappointment at how the proposed design fails to meet our specification, in particular ‘making best use of light and space’ given virtually no glazing on the southern elevation. Therefore we feel that for you to unilaterally decide that this phase has been completed satisfactorily is inappropriate. As consultants in different fields it would be unheard of in our professions to sign off work without allowing clients to input into the deliverables of each stage.
II. Secondly, when we met on 14 October, you undertook to discuss the council’s response to our pre-application (XX’s letter of 10 October) and that the design you would present would reflect that discussion. At the presentation XX confirmed that this had not been done. If you had it is our belief that some of the most troubling aspects of the design, the ability to let natural light into the heart of the house in particular, could have been avoided.
Please find enclosed a cheque for £1827.
Yours sincerely,
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