Review of Services: Bob Shofner rmsdesigngroup@gmail.com

[LLaramore]

I hired Bob to fix some issues I was not able to navigate in Chief Architect. Bob assured me he was able to help as he said he had vast experience working with this program.  In the end he fixed none of the issues and returned the first floor out of scale. I would not use him as he can not deliver on what all his marketing says he can do. 

 

• The porch roof blocked windows on the second floor, which was one of the issues we were struggling with correcting in Chief Architect and one of the reasons we hired him, but this still had to be addressed mid-build as he did nothing to fix it.

• We asked him to design a hip roof as we could not get it to work with our small amount of knowledge in the program. This was an  issue he said he could handle. .The second-floor roof was not properly supported, as some of the walls were out of alignment and would not support the roof, which required us to make changes to the roof framing during construction.

• We had to remove a planned window, move walls, and adjust our material orders — all of which added to delays and extra costs.  Again an issue we asked him to address. 

I understand that no plan is ever perfect, but these particular issues had a real impact on our timeline and budget.

[basketballman]

Hmmm,

clients from “ you know where .”

We’ve all had them. 

  One of my employees years ago coined the term “ home moaners “ and some people sure fit the description.

  If you look carefully you will see the keyword “ fix “ referring to a plan and design that was originally done by someone else and given to me to try to fix the mistakes and create a set of layout sheets

  My scope of work was, in fact, completed, reviewed and approved by this client well over a year ago.

 The building dept also approved and issued a permit.

  It is my guess that after construction costs for the project came in higher than they anticipated it was decided to try to do a “ money grab “ to offset this.

  Everyone knows that CAD drafters are very wealthy people and therefore a great target..

 

If a problem was discovered with the plans during the build why was I never contacted at that time.?