Botched Garage Conversion

Shaynac

Hi,

I am currently in the process of having our single integral garage converted into a bedroom. The conversion is almost complete but we are not happy with the results. The work was started Monday 24th July. We had been communicating with the foreman for a couple of weeks, about what we wanted done and decided on a price for the whole job (£6700). Until Monday afternoon we were havingthe garage door bricked up, but then he came to the house to say he can't find matching bricks, so he'll have to use rendering instead. We insisted that we were not happy with that, and found bricks online that were a close match, the guy just said that those were !!!!.

Jumping ahead to Wednesday when the builders had finished for the day, we noticed the space for the window was too big, and the right side reaches the wall. The other windows on our house have three panels, the foreman couldn't find a matching window so had one made... but its not the same design as the others, this has four smaller panels that look stupid. And the window is too big for the room, it's common sense that a room that small shouldn't have a huge window like that. The finished window looks ridiculously stupid and the rendering looks terrible. We have relayed this information to the foreman (owner of he company), all he said was he had to do that and it's normal practice.

He is now saying that he'll complete the work next week. Then come back in a few weeks to redo it how we originally wanted it, but charge us £2000 more. Please I need advice on what to do and anyone's opinions on the conversion so far. Here are pictures of the window and rendering:

Doozergirl

I can't see any pictures.

Do you have an agreed drawing of what the exterior was going to look like?

Doozergirl

If you are a new user then post the pictures to a hosting website and post us a broken web link for it and we can fix it.

I_have_spoken

Didn't you have any plan and design done before work started? Not agreeing the size if the window in advance leaves so many chances for a muddle.

>the foreman couldn't find a matching window so had one made<

More likely he had one lying about in the yard!

Have you paid in advance?

Shaynac

Yes I'm a new user, I don't know how to do that. Do you know of a website?.

Shaynac

ibb.co/nrdhFQ
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Shaynac

These are the pictures:

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Shaynac

We paid £5000 today although the job is not complete and he said the rest is due on completion

Doozergirl

It looks okay to me? But you're saying it doesn't match the other windows and I can't see those.

Shaynac

Yeah you'd have to see the others to understand. But the right hand side on the window comes to the up to the wall, there is no wall space in between. I've never seen a window like that, it's not in the middle of the room.

d0nkeyk0ng

Take some photos of the whole house to make it easier to work out the design aspect. I agree that rendering would look gash and making the bottom of the wall the same would be a massive improvement.