Cheapies and wins.

Not often you get a win in the building world, most mistakes cost money but I've found that sometimes their mistakes are a win!

Here are a list of a few!

1. We wanted to upgrade our front door from the standard 920x2100 6 Glass early on in our contruction phase. We were quoted the 1020mm wide and the 1.2m pivot door. The initial quotes came back $300 for the 1020mm and $550 for the 1.2m. I couldnt believe the prices and these included an admin fee. So of course I jumped onto the 1.2mx2100 pivot 6 Glass door in lieu of side lights. A few days later, we got an email saying they quoted the wrong prices and said it should have costed us over $1500. So because of their error they will give it to me for $650 with a handle upgrade.
2. Our other win was with our ensuite wall tiling. I initially just agreed to pay for increase tiling to ceiling in the shower area only. On our final plans we have floor to ceiling tiling on a whole extra wall.
3. As I have blogged earlier they made a big bungle on doing soil tests and slab design on a different piece of land. In the end they had to redo the design and increase the footings at their own cost.
4. Another win we had is when they didn't stock our sinks that we had chosen in our colour selection. We ended up getting a free upgraded sink too!
5. I got a quote to change our mandatory security screens to secureview mesh, rather than the ugly diamond grills. I got them to quote all windows but wet areas, but when it came to the build all upstairs windows got changed!