While walking the property with our real-estate agent, we noticed a concern with the back corner of the house. The brick ledge down the south side of the house ended before the place where the brick would turn and go down the west side on the patio. We took a picture and sent it into our build supervisor. The next day he went out to check it out and figured out the problem was much bigger. They had poured the foundation for the rear wall of the house, where it meets the rear patio, two feet further into the patio than they should have. That reduced the depth of our rear patio by two feet and increased the square footage of the living room by 70 feet. They gave us three options, live with it and loose our big patio, cut and chip out the concrete back to the original measurement or add two feet to the patio with a new concrete pour. Leaving it as is was not a consideration for us. Cutting and chipping the concrete back to the original wall location would put the wall and fireplace over a un-reinforced portion of the foundation, or they could pour an additional two feet for the patio and tie it into the existing foundation at no cost to us. We chose option three since it keeps the wall and fireplace where the foundation is reinforced to carry the load and it gives us the patio depth we wanted. We also gain 70Sqft of living space but loose a window along the back door (which we get a rebate for). It will cost the contractors around $10K to fix it. But it will slow down the framing process since they need the new concrete poured to finish out the patio roof. It will not cost us any additional money. We do not have a lot of confidence in the concrete sub- contractor!
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