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You can say so, I see myself more as a customer. I don't have experience of building lofts, building control, architectural designs, structural engineering etc. I think it's a bit too much to expect me to spot the error and to know about half brick walls. As oldbutnotdead pointed out it's not...

It was 22% of the total. No project management role. Architect designed builder build, there wasn't any relationship really and no communication between them. I don't know why the builders haven't spotted the error,.or maybe if he did he didn't make a great deal of it because he completed a...

I see. He had a chance to correct but he didn't know how. What does one do we inexperience or incompetence?

I'm guessing "defective service" is a legal term? What's the difference?

I'm guessing "defective service" is a legal term? What's the difference?

I'm guessing "defective service" is a legal term? What's the difference?

I think this are the grounds for our case. However, his argument would be, you shouldn't have started it without BC's approval. Although I think this argument doesn't hold up because BC wouldn't realise there was an error until their first site visit. And my understanding is the BC's first site...

Thanks for that

1. Yes 2. Yes, he had plenty. We asked him few times for help. He came up with a half cooked idea which was not workable and then he said he didn't know what to do. 3. As the new SE was trying to justify to the BC the structure that the architect designed I included him in the communication. I...

Yes he did wrote "without prejudice" in the email where he mentions refunding us his fees. What does it mean I practical terms?

Really helpful, appreciate your input and yes, turned out to be nice space

I'll and thank you for braking this down. It's much clearer this way. Also, this is maybe where we see we don't really have a case against him.

I don't think there is this divide. I think just about everything abou building that frame was unavoidable cost. The frame was needed for the scheme to work. I guess the only thing that was a waste of time was that we had to lift the floors again. What we avoided is having inhabitable room or...

Yes, he said he was sorry he was not able to resolve it and was prepared to agree to a refund of his fees

This is what we paid to do the extra work. The remedy was to brace the half brick wall against another brick wall. The work involved bolting a welded steel frame at ground floor level which offered some buttressing for the half brick wall. The frame also had steel lugs welded to the frame and...

Yes, correct

this is my fear. It's not the most technical case, but to understand the issue, one might need to go a bit into technical details but in small claims court there are not subject experts

I understand your point, and maybe this is where we do not have a case against him. All those points are very valid and worth considering. What I wonder is, can an architect take a project, design it, make a mess of it because he didn't carry out a proper survey and then leave a client to find a...

My point is, even if we didn't start work, the drawings would be approved, as the BC wouldn't know they were incorrect until they came for a site visit.

It wasn't the BCO who rejected it, BCO pointed out that the plan is incorrect. BCO asked BC SE to review it and explained that we have a half brick wall not a single brick wall as per drawings. This is when BC SE asked the architect to justify the proposed design.