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Saturday, August 18, 2007
Stone Fiasco
This is the pictue of the stone that we told the brick/stone company that we wanted. We sent them pictures, gave them a CD, and they went out to confirm what type it is in person. As you can see, it is a mix of browns, creams, and tans.
This is a picture of our home. Obviously this stone is much darker and heavy in the colors of grey and gold.
We went back and forth with the stone company and originally they agreed to rip it down and bring in the right stone. Then they took back the offer. They hid behind "natural variance" in the stone (which is true, by the way, but this goes beyond that, it is a deviation, as our mortgage lender, described). They also said we waited too long to tell them (two days too late apparently). They offered some money and stone, but it would still have cost us thousands of dollars to change it. We don't hate it, don't think it is hideous, but it is not what we wanted. It was bad for a few weeks but we have peace about it now. Further action is not likely because of the lengthy and costly process to do anything about it. I will talk more about that at the end of the process where I share my wisdom I have accrued though this process in my "Ten Things you need to Know to not go Crazy when Building a house".
This is a picture of our home. Obviously this stone is much darker and heavy in the colors of grey and gold.
We went back and forth with the stone company and originally they agreed to rip it down and bring in the right stone. Then they took back the offer. They hid behind "natural variance" in the stone (which is true, by the way, but this goes beyond that, it is a deviation, as our mortgage lender, described). They also said we waited too long to tell them (two days too late apparently). They offered some money and stone, but it would still have cost us thousands of dollars to change it. We don't hate it, don't think it is hideous, but it is not what we wanted. It was bad for a few weeks but we have peace about it now. Further action is not likely because of the lengthy and costly process to do anything about it. I will talk more about that at the end of the process where I share my wisdom I have accrued though this process in my "Ten Things you need to Know to not go Crazy when Building a house".
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