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When renovations become structural renovations it gets extremely costly as Dazz pointed out. Not sure how you can get a refund unless the architect was negligent though - he can just say he relied on the builder he talked to at the beginning for a rough estimation and that's that.

Hi Luke, It's unfortunate that that has happened to you. From the sound of things the actual amount of work involved is quite substantial - probably 300sqm of renovations? Given that you've actually gone to the trouble of engaging an architect I imagine you've included lots of nice features...

Luke - what was the extension exactly? How big was it (in sqm)? What was your budget? As you've found out the hard way, architects are not cost estimators. In fact, I think they are quite bad at cost estimating. The architect I used recommended a quantity surveyor to budget the cost of...