We remodeled our kitchen several years ago. In the old kitchen there was a large beam running across one end, added during some other remodel before we owned the house to add a second floor, but since we wanted to expand on the kitchen this really needed to go. Upon tearing into the ceiling, it was found this beam was ~2 feet to the right of where it should of been to support the wall above. They fixed it and moved the beam into the wall upstairs and it all worked out, but when I asked about the original location the builder basically said: "you had one person that wanted to do the right thing, and one person that didn't care, and quality always ends up with the lowest setting".