WHEN PLANS GO WRONG:
Last summer my boss and I had planned to work on his new deck and extend it. we had given the architect a fair idea of what design we needed and also the measurements of the current deck and also the measurements of the new deck.
Once we had gotten the finished plans for our new deck we began to order the materials looking at the new plans we figured the plans were correct.
After ordering we finally got delivered the decking materials we needed. The next day my boss and I began working on the deck. When putting the piles up we had realised that the deck wasn’t the same length as what we had imagined but was a couple meters too short. We had a closer look at the measurements and realised the decking measurements was 1.5 meters too short length ways therefore we had to add another 1.5 meters length ways to the deck from top to bottom.
We rang our architect who was actually a close friend to my boss. We had a look at our old plan my boss and I had made and everything was in order. The architect had misread my bosses hand writing and had put up the wrong measurements. He was very apologetic and made us another plan which didn’t take that long.
This wasn’t a big deal but just meant we had to wait a few more days to begin our construction and that we had to order more materials.
This problem could also be blamed upon my boss as we should have ensured that our old plans matched with our new plans before ordering the materials.
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