I wanted to write about our journey towards our first home, all of it, not only the positive things. Today one of our friends sent a picture of the build, and we just realized of a mistake that we made when we signed our plans back in March'16.
There were downpipes locations drawn in the plan, very tiny and insignificant things those were. And we trusted on the default placement of those done by the builder. It never crossed our mind that a downpipe could be placed at the front Facade to ruin the look of the house.
Here it is:
Gosh! I wish to bang my head after finding this out. But there is not much can be done now unless we plan to shift it somewhere else after handover.
I am glad that we paid for a downpipe color (Taubmans Braidwood) to exactly match with the brick (Urban One Pepper).
Those who are yet to sign the plans, please carefully check the location of downpipes. We missed to check it and are now devastated. Yeah you learn from your mistakes!
The complaint I have for MJH is that when clients choose their facade seeing the graphic images displayed at their website, they are unaware that few designs are bound to have downpipe at the front facade. I say, why would you design such a facade in the first place, and if you do, please put that downpipe in those Facade images you display at your website so that clients won't be disappointed at the end .
Hope after painting, the downpipe will blend in as in this picture: will still be visible from side though!
There were downpipes locations drawn in the plan, very tiny and insignificant things those were. And we trusted on the default placement of those done by the builder. It never crossed our mind that a downpipe could be placed at the front Facade to ruin the look of the house.
Here it is:
Gosh! I wish to bang my head after finding this out. But there is not much can be done now unless we plan to shift it somewhere else after handover.
I am glad that we paid for a downpipe color (Taubmans Braidwood) to exactly match with the brick (Urban One Pepper).
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| Taubmans Braidwood |
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| Urban One Pepper |
The complaint I have for MJH is that when clients choose their facade seeing the graphic images displayed at their website, they are unaware that few designs are bound to have downpipe at the front facade. I say, why would you design such a facade in the first place, and if you do, please put that downpipe in those Facade images you display at your website so that clients won't be disappointed at the end .
Hope after painting, the downpipe will blend in as in this picture: will still be visible from side though!
We had a similar facade on our "Chelsea" design, but spotted the DP location early on. Due to the brick stack, this is the only possible location for the DP.
ReplyDeleteOur solution to this was to delete the stack and add an eave around the garage to blend it into the rest of the house. This enables us to move the DP location to the side of the garage.
The only thing you could do is plug the DP hole in the gutter, and change the grade of the gutter to fall towards the patio. Add a short DP for this gutter to discharge into the lower patio gutter. Hoopfully that makes sense.
Cheers
Dean
Thanks Dean for your reply. Yeah, if only we could understand this earlier! For now, I would learn to live with it, let's see.
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