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deep enough at the shallow end, but the House of Lords decided that demolishing and re-
constructing the pool was not worth the cost.
In that case, a factor was also whether the injured party would use the money to recon-
struct. If something is without value or seriously reduced in value by the error, it is likely
that a court would uphold its replacement. On the other hand, it is unlikely that a court
would instruct wholesale demolition purely on aesthetic grounds. Therefore, although the
baseline is that the contractor is responsible for its errors, care should be exercised before
taking legal action if the errors are expensive to correct for little apparent benefit.
