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Wolfgang Cash

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Wolfgang Cash

24 February

Re: Water-proofing and liquidated damagesBuilding A New House

Feb 24, 2024 6:38 pm

We are building using a large project home builder in NSW. Our build commenced in October 2022, and we have just reached lock-up stage, so we are about 16 months overall and two Summer industry shut-downs. A critical issue is the water-proofing the wet areas. So far, we had a private inspector revi...

Liquidated damages should be set out in in your contract as a $ amount per working day, or day, or week delay beyond th...

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Wolfgang Cash

4 September 2021

Re: Provisional Sum itemsGeneral Discussion

Sep 04, 2021 10:21 am

Price adjustments for provisional sums are due and payable at the next progress payment after those PS items are included. They are due and payable at subsequent progress payments if not paid previously.

Price adjustments for provisional sums are due and payable at the next progress payment after those PS items are include...

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Wolfgang Cash

8 June 2021

Re: new home build - variations out of pocketBuilding A New House

Jun 08, 2021 11:39 am

The HIA contract states that a variation "...must be paid for with the next progress payment, except that any credit to the Owner will be deducted from the Final Payment."

The HIA contract states that a variation ...must be paid for with the next progress payment, except that any credit to t...

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Wolfgang Cash

13 November 2019

Who pays for the Building Surveyor?Building A New House

Nov 13, 2019 9:49 am

Hi there, Apologies if that has been answered already on another thread. I have received an invoice from the Building Surveyor for the foundation stage. Is this our responsibility to pay, or the builder?

Hi there, Apologies if that has been answered already on another thread. I have received an invoice from the Building Su...

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Wolfgang Cash

3 August 2019

Re: Calculation of liquidated damagesBuilding A New House

Aug 03, 2019 6:35 pm

If you have got a standard HIA contract the days are the total days for the contract. The builder doesn't get additional days for anything that he could reasonably expect such as: Weekends Public Holidays Rostered days off Christmas close down Reasonable amount of bad weather. A standard HIA contra...

A standard HIA contract defines a 'working day' as any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, a statutory holiday, or publ...

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