Plan B

Most of you already know this, but in case you don't, I terminated my contract with Remy's QC last week. There were a lot of factors that led to this, but the bottom line is that I did not feel I was getting what I paid for.

Remy's QC is billed as a "design-build" organization. Since my job seemed pretty straightforward, I though that would be fine. In reality, there was not much "design" going on, and the level of detail of the drawings they were presenting to me was pretty poor. After a few conversations with Remy where he mentioned being able to change stuff while in construction, I seriously feared that he was counting on hitting me up with a ton of change-orders.

All in all, confidence and trust eroded and if I'm going to drop some serious coin on a remodel, I expect to have a high degree of confidence in my design-construction partner. It simply wasn't there and he was hemorrhaging time. I had expected to be in construction by this point. Instead, we were still going back and forth on drawings that were never quite right (probably because they were being done by his dad who had NO experience--I could navigate the software better than he could that night he came to my house), and he went all passive-aggressive on me when I called him on the fact that my house is his dad's guinea pig.

In any event, I've decided to work with an architect (Pete) to produce drawings that I will be able to bid out to other contractors. I want drawings that are the Bible of my remodel. When, if in doubt, the drawing will dictate how something is supposed to be, or where it is to be placed. None of this loosey-goosey "we can change it while in construction" stuff.

Pete was out at the house last Friday to do a site survey and is working on preliminary concepts. I expect to meet with him next week to review them.