Just from the pictures - it looks like nice workmanship on the home. I'd leave well enough alone.

I hate to speculate, but unless there was some forethought and discussion as to why those are situated that way, it is not the "standard" way that they would be arranged. What has the contractor proposed? Ultimately it is up to him to rectify, whether that means some discount for you to keep it that way, reinstallation, or replacement. Given that you have trim boards surrounding the windows and they were field mulled in the first place, I would trust that he can remove and reinstall them if he feels confident in that method. Your wall cavity insulation won't be in the rough window opening, and it looks as though you have wood je's as opposed to sheetrock returns, which again bode well for a seamless removal and reinstall.

The expense to do this should be a non-issue, it's on the contractor--- unless, again, there was some design forethought into installing these as they are.

My husband and I paid the Marvin distributor ourselves for the windows.

Our GC knows he made a mistake and is sick about it.

I did not take pictures of all the windows open that day. But all windows swing on the appropriate side of the opening for the house style except these. The one set of three is a dining room wall the other set of two is our daughters bedroom.

The GC thought he would have to buy new windows when we first told him and said it was his six thousand dollar mistake. Then GC called back saying he felt better because the distributor told him he could switch things around easily. But the windows have not been discussed in the 3 weeks since this was discovered and no work on the windows has happened and I became curious why. So, I decided to follow up with the distributor myself to see what they told the GC. The distributor said everything the contractor said but the distributor then decided to call Marvin to verify. Marvin stated the best way around the situation is to buy new windows. To rework the windows would be very involved and could ruin the integrity of the window. (haha...pun not intended) The distributor called the GC several weeks ago and told him.

I wanted to get opinions on how others would suggest handling this. Of course I want things right but we are now in a time crunch to get this house finished. My husband is upset but thinks we should let it go. I think we are paying a fee for the contractor and this was a rookie mistake. Our GC is a carpenter by trade and does good work but has become very busy with other work and worry that our project, that has taken too long already (8month to date), will now lose out.

Thanks

Sorry about this. It looks like it will be a beautiful home when finished. The land looks stunning as well.

How often do you open your windows? I ask because not everyone opens their windows often and if they do, they do not necessarily open all the windows in a room. So, whether it is really important to fix them all, for me, would depend on how often I would be opening them.

If I understand correctly, this is the window in question. If this is the case, you would have to "flip" one of the windows upside down to get the hinges in the correct place. You could not just swap left and right, they would still be "wrong". This would mean the windows were either ordered wrong or produced wrong. Am I missing something?

@lkbum, they have two openings with the incorrectly placed operators that should be swapped... Flipping upside down wouldn't work either for operation and drainage

thanks, I see now. I knew they couldn't be turned upside down. So they would have to remove two windows and swap ends from each. After going through a pretty significant build I could show you two "mistakes" (not windows) that really bugged me and on occasion still do. Had I been purchasing the home (vs building myself), they would not have mattered that much. But since I was building, I really lost sleep over it. I'd leave them as is.

@pp94, so everyone in te situation thinks reinstallation is doable, except the manufacturer who can make a few bucks by selling more windows.... Hmmm....

If they were factory mulled, I'd say they are probably right. Having been field mulled, your contractor knows exactly what's needed to do this. I'd trust his opinion on whether it is advisable or not, as he'd be the one on the hook if they get damaged in the process.

I do agree with some other sentjments though, in that if you think you won't mind too much or won't even operate them that often, leaving them is the most conservative way to go here

How often do you open your windows? Does the symmetry matter? We have a larger home and have about 8 windows that we open (we stored the screens for the other windows so we could have a clearer view.) Otherwise we turn on the A/C.