I did the walk through with the Alpine Homes job foreman today and noticed many things that were not correct. I think this is common and wasn't too concerned. One interaction in particular has me uneasy though. We walked through the dining room and I noticed it was not built correctly with a dropwall/trim area on the ceiling. Every home with the same plan that I walked through had this drop ceiling and faux beam around the dining room. I asked the building foreman about it and he said he had built many of these same homes and he had never seen it done the way I described. He proceeded to show me the plans. Immediately he knew he was caught because the plans showed exactly the way I described. In this moment he decided to choose to lie to me about what he didn't know instead of check. After this questionable response from the foreman I had little faith in his 'confidence' of how the rest of the home was 'supposed' to be.
I pointed out the following items that were not correct with the home:
- The exterior doors(garage entry and man door) need to be swapped out for the 3 panel doors.
Side note: Walkthrough indicated that the front door was broken so I expect that will be replaced with a new one.
- Add the missing light to the string of lights for the kitchen in the place indicated on walkthrough.
- Move the light switch for the bar area lights to the side by the bay window.
- Move the light above the nook to the place indicated during the walkthrough.
- Finish the area around the ceiling of the dining room as indicated during the walkthrough.
- Switch for Christmas light outlets moved to inside the closet per original plans.
- Light in master closet moved further in per instructions during walkthrough.
- Power outlets in master vanity moved to 45 degree walls as discussed in walkthrough. Outlets were currently where the mirrors would be.
- Remove frame for door that heads downstairs as there will be no door there.
- Moving the window toward the garage so that it matches the kitchen layout drawing provided by Alpine Homes.
- No blower in the gas fireplace