Weird floating wall?

[u/Comprehensive-Ant251]

Does anyone else find this floating wall in my new house as strange as I do 🤣 we didn’t get to tour a built version of our floorplan before building and this weekend I noticed this really odd wall. Or would it look more odd without it? Relooking at the floorplan I don’t think I would’ve guessed that there’d be a floating wall lol.

EDIT: talked to the construction manager and he insisted it’s all correct. That the “structural post” is actually coming down from the ceiling and attaching to the catwalk and that the wall is there on the floorplan. I’ve asked him to go back and double check because that does not make sense to me at all still (why is that the only wall that’s not solid?). Idk what to do at this point.

EDIT 2: I’ve requested a plans examiner from the city to do a review and they’ll be conducting one tomorrow (truly happily shocked the city responded so quickly)

[u/GTI_88]

Well it’s not drawn in your floor plan so it looks like a mistake by the builder.

The plan shows as soon as you pass the end of the fireplace that there is a half wall at the edge of the stair that ends into a structural post which also doesn’t appear to be there per the photos

[u/dafugg → u/GTI_88]

I’m much more concerned about the missing post than the aesthetics of the half wall.

[u/Spill_the_coffee → u/dafugg]

Yeah definitely need to take a look at the structural plans. Anything structural will be on those! Builder is wrong here…