Mind the gap, says the voice at Piccadilly Circus Tube station. It's an ideal message for some of you builders. Mind the gap in the specification, mind the gap in the drawing. There are gaps galore. What I mean is this: it is not so unusual for the architect's drawings and specification to contain errors, leave certain things silent and be ambiguous or vague. Take the case of CGA Brown Ltd vs Carr. The architect in the case produced for the homeowner a set of drawings for obtaining Building Regulation approval. I guess those same drawings are what the builder, CGA Brown, priced on. Certainly, when it did the job in 2003, it obeyed the flat roof instruction on the drawing, "to align through with the existing arrangement".
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