Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Builder charging 14% surcharge delay in start date 2Sep 25, 2021 11:01 am Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Builder charging 14% surcharge delay in start date 3Sep 25, 2021 11:18 am That seems pretty unreasonable to me. On a 300k build, 42k is like an almost 15% increase. As the above poster pointed out, they do actually have a right to charge you for the delayed start time (which is ridiculous, as it was outside of your control, but that’s how these contracts are written). A lot of people are being stung by this at the moment. Builders are taking advantage of the increased wait times around council and bank decisions. You can thank the grants and the building boom. Have a look at your specific contract, because I know in WA our standard building contracts don’t allow for a price increase of more than 5% of the total build cost in one bill. I had a quick look at the standard contact for QLD builds (which is where your builder is based) and section 16 of your contract outlines what to do in this situation, but there maybe specific stipulations in your individual contract. At the very least you are entitled to a breakdown of reasonable costs that have caused the increase. If you want to investigate and go ahead with the builder, do not sign anything until they can outline what these reasonable costs are. Make them explain what each part of the 42k is about. Your contract states they have to be reasonable costs, so they should be able to justify it. Can’t help much more than that unfortunately, but good luck. It’s a hard fight but you may be able to get them to reduce that amount to something more reasonable if you’re willing to fight or push back. It is true that a builder can ignore your independent inspection report as it is not part of the contractual arrangement but that is stupid because he cannot avoid fixing… 9 40135 Hi, My home construction is complete, and the handover is scheduled next week. However the construction has been delayed and I have raised this to the builder. The… 0 4422 1 1048 |