An Architect is the creative person that you need.........We are trained to think outside of the box and to give our clients the dreams that they could not envision on their own. We are also trained to design and present winning presentations for city review approvals...... Of course, not all architects are equal so you might have to shop around a bit for the one that you like best. Look at their portfolio of projects........Call their references and see that their clients loved working with them. You can ask as many as you want for proposals.... Most architects will meet with you and write a proposal, without charging for that time. I am sure that you will be happy........

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Hi guys, we have this vent done yesterday, it seems to be a little bit awkward. This job has been done by a qualified building company. They drilled a hole at the blue circle first and found that there is a studs cross(two studs show in red) there, they leave a hole at the blue circle (but studs are not drilled) and then moved to the place where the vent is now in the picture(green circle), but they still had to cut a piece of the horizontal stud (green shade) off to put the vent on, I saw the top right corner of the vent was broken before they put the cover on, and they put a whiteboard to cover the blue hole as well. So my question is that is this fully compliant and did they actually make a mistake while doing this? I haven't paid so what the best practice I can do next. Thank you very much for your help!

Hi, we are currently trying to sell our house that has had a room built that is not on LIM/drawings etc (we were aware of tis when we purchased the house 5 years ago). We had one potential sale fall through due to banks not wanting to lend due to this room, so we contacted a house inspection company who said we needed a 3rd party report and have it added to our property record. We went ahead with this and the report found that "this alteration work predated the implementation the 1991 Building Act and therefore a Third-Party Report (or old Safe & Sanitary report) is sufficient to deal with this unrecorded building work. " and the work done is "safe and sanitary". The also updated the drawings to include the modifications. Thinking we had solved the issue we have just had another bank reject lending due to this room. The council also attached a letter to our property record stating "Council is not obliged to hold such information on file but if it does so, you should be aware that Council’s actions in no way authorise, or give approval of, the work undertaken without consents under the Building Act 2004 or preceding regulation. Furthermore, Council has not inspected any of the work that is described in your application." Which makes it sound like the report is worthless. Does anyone have any insight into what we can do to resolve this issue? Cheers