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This happens time and time again and I just dont understand how it can.
Client sets budget of X, I always say you should expect for 10 maybe 15% over budget at a push but before you've even kicked a ball its at 50% over. Joke. These folks should also manage the clients expectations if the budget they have doesnt suit or they won't be able to do what they actually wanna do.
I think a lot of these contractors/architects think its a public funded job and the budget doesnt matter and it'll still be settled.
Hope you get a resolution with them easily and not too costly.
konastab01
It's a relatively simple and small extension. We told him we had a budget of £110,000 inclusive of everything. It's hard to say exactly what the quote is because there's not a lot of clarity on the contractor's quote. But even with several large parts of the work definitely being omitted, and maybe others that we don't know about, it's already reached £165,000. Despite claiming to manage costs at the start he's never given us a budget estimate - I've had to cobble it together from various bits of baffling contractor emails and random bits of quotes from material suppliers.