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Definitely feel you but thats just the reality of it. However big or small the project is these issues crop up and in my experience (im sure some have different ones) the more research and work you are willing to do will help minimise (not get rid of) the unknowns and problems that will happen. Especially dealing with architects (as someone has already said), they do fairly specific work and simply aren't QS'. Best case scenario is to have early contractor involvement so your builder can look at architects work early and say 'thats a dumb way to do it, do it like this' and then you have to take a view whether thats your builder being lazy/trying to take a shortcut or if theyre right from experience that the architect doesn't have. Then you have to cost it all up, then changing one thing will cause another issue etc etc etc. thats why a good Project Manager is worth having and will help you through lots of this and save you money. It doesn't mean that you can sit back and rely on it to just happen though! Just the nature of the beast
Im a Development manager by trade, ive built loads of houses blocks of flats etc but even my relatively small (big for me) £20k reno project in my house at the moment has come up against multiple unforeseen issues, some my fault, some the builders fault, others just examples of shit happening despite thinking at the beginning that id covered all bases.
It does also sound like you might want to talk to another architect
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Exactly this. We love our house and can see ourselves living here for the rest of our lives, but it would be massively improved by the addition of a bedroom so that friends can come and stay and by enough space for us to work from home. The problem is that achieving that appears to be only just possible within our budget.
I'm not moaning about having to spend money to achieve that or the fact that it won't add equivalent value to the house. I'm frustrated by not seeming to be able to get to a place where we have an agreed spec at an agreed cost to be delivered under an agreed set of terms because we can't seem to get the people with the relevant expertise (i.e. the builder and the architect) to give us all the information that we need to make all the interdependent decisions that we need to make in order to actually get the project started.