Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Builder suspended construction, demanding cost increase 2Aug 10, 2023 3:41 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 suspended construction, demanding cost increase 4Aug 10, 2023 11:53 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 suspended construction, demanding cost increase 6Aug 10, 2023 11:57 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 suspended construction, demanding cost increase 9Aug 10, 2023 5:56 pm 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 suspended construction, demanding cost increase 11Aug 11, 2023 10:53 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 suspended construction, demanding cost increase 13Sep 02, 2023 6:44 am Ben126 Hi there, I am at the stage I don't know what to do next and could really use your advice on legalities, dispute and protection of my own right. My builder completed the slab stage at the end of May and never replied my follow ups since then. Last week they called me and asking for $40k more though I have already paid a cost variation of $50k before construction commencement. We have signed a cost variation deed and it was agreed there should not be any further price increase. Placing the construction on suspension and holding us at ransom to pay these unsigned and never agreed for variation costs is shocking and I would like to know if he has breached his contractual obligations by doing so. What can I do to protect myself? Is builder in breach of any obligation to suspend the construction and ask for more money? How are you doing Ben? Extremely interested in hearing what you are doing or plan to do! Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 30261 Sorry to hear. All the advice you are going to get on this one comes down to what your contract says and what variations are allowed and the mechanism for them. For… 1 1701 Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 82244 |