When my dad had the house I'm living in built back in 1977,they had the foundation poured and the "shell" of the house built in a few days,and my dad wasn't able to go inspect their work daily--when he went to see how things were going,since his last visit when the forms for the foundation were the only thing done,his next visit they had the whole shell up--and he noticed NO "walk in door" opening had been installed in the foundation,on the garage under the house!..
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He told the builder "cant you guys READ blueprints ?..it was specified right in them there was to be a walk in door on the north side!..they were
and said "We'll fix that,no extra charge "--dad said "Dam right NO CHARGE !--I'm not paying for YOUR mistakes!"..
The contractor had to jack hammer the foundation out where the door was to go,and they did a rather cobbed up job of framing it in..
They just use a ramset to attach the jamb and threshold and mudded it in with more cement...
Another "ooops" thing they did was make the overhead garage door opening flush with the driveway,not raised up an inch or more,and no angle iron for the overhead door to set upon--it freezes to the concrete often in the winter,and now after many years. frost has heaved the driveway up in front of the door,and that allows heavy rains to flood the garage--one year in the 90's the entire ground floor or "basement" of the house was flooded 2" deep after several days of heavy rains..they only made the floors in the rooms other than the garage 1" higher ,so it didn't take much water to get into the whole downstairs of the house..
