We completed on our house in June 2018, so we have been in a while now.
We reserved the property in Jan 2018. During the period after this we signed various documents and had welcome meetings etc. One of the important steps was signed the house floor plans which we would then use to mark up any alterations.
Now at the time of reserving we were informed our plot would be a reverse (opposite) of the Showhome. When we recieved our floor plans we noted that the ground floor was reversed but the 1st and 2nd were not. As the staircase runs in the middle it seemed like it was just how it was and the sales executives never seemed concerned.
Fast forward to first fix, which was the first time we were allowed access to the property, we were very surprised when we got to the top of the stairs to find our soon to be bedroom on the RH side instead of the left. The site manager quickly confirmed 'Well it’s an opposite' and seemed to ignore my claim that the drawing said otherwise.
Other than raising this a few other times to no real outcome, I started to wonder recently, do the NHBC/CML sign off the house against the drawings? If so, they could not have been the drawings I signed and retained.
The signing of documents and drawings at the start of the house buying process is made out to have a significant importance, whether it is or not, I am starting to wonder if this issue has a deeper, more legal implication.
Any thoughts?