The Beam in the Eye

Seldom do I quote the bible, but it seems appropriate here, sort of.

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Matthew 7:5

When looking around the house early February, after the roof frames was put in place, we could not help but noticing one tiny little detail in the living room, that stood out as being, shall we say, “a beam in the eye”.

Perhaps you can spot it too?

Indeed, we’ve done the drawings of the house ourselves - but those drawings was drawings of the desired floor plan, and of the desired exterior of the house, and contained no construction details like, say, the placement of the roof frames relative to the windows. We’ve had no other requirement here than the living room being open to the second floor.

Those drawings have been made into proper construction blueprints by the general contractor, and supposedly looked over by a proper architect and a proper building constructor. One might think they would have spotted a thing like this? Note that the beam does not even look like the other ones, it’s much thinner.

We obviously have told the general contractor we are not happy about this, and they are “looking into a solution”, as they say. (Please note that Dan the Builder is not the constructor, so no blame on him.)

If we’re lucky, they will be able to completely remove the beam, without compromising the stability of the house. We’ll just have to wait for the general contractors solution proposal, I guess.