I apologise in advance as this is a long one.

We’re rebuilding and adding to the back and side of our house, roughly 2000 sq ft involved so a rather large project. Ground breaking started in Jan and we have been stalling the last 2 month as our contractor couldn’t get framing/electrical/plumbing inspection passed. We have had numerous mistakes, some easy fix (failure to read the blueprint closely, order wrong item) and quite a few harder fixes that cost money and time consuming. We recently discovered a huge mistake, our eaves are not lining up which requires a total redo and our contractor is refusing to fix it the right way.

I will go back a bit. During the 2 months with little work produced. We noticed our eaves didn’t line up with the old eaves. We pointed it out to multiple workers but they said they weren’t done (which our contractor got mad at us for asking them). We then asked our field manager after, he said it doesn’t look good but is a cosmetic problem and an easy fix. They can fix it later. Going forward 2 weeks later, I got frustrated with no workers working on our house. I called to talk to the inspector to run other concerns by her as I wasn’t getting anywhere with our contractor, she offered to stop by and talk About my concerns. Most of these concerns were fixable and some not a major deal, I learned from her visit. During this visit, she urged me to contact our architect and engineer with our eaves problem as they weren’t as planned. Fast forward, we now discovered our top plate is 1.5 or 1.75 inches higher than it should be. Add to it, our old and new eaves do not match (size). Our architect and engineer suggested total roof redo to the stud, roof have sheaths already. Our contractor has some other plan which will require plan correction, engineer drawing up plan and building submission. All these will cost us time. Their proposal possibly came from their architect/engineer consultants. We said no to these proposals as we are still unsure if they will work and the time involved. He now said if it’s total roof redo, we would have to pay for it. Our architect and engineer said they are currently swamped and will not be able to draw up the plan within the next week or so. Our contractor have said they will talk to their engineer and architect to see if they will agree to take the case, which we are leery of as there is a conflict of interest.

At this point, we rather pay a few hundreds to get this draw up if there is a warranty that this will work?? Do we go with their architect and engineer? Do you foresee any problems? Or do we walk away and have someone else fix the job and do it right?