Hi All,
We recently received our Building Contract (we are in Melbourne). Aside from other issues that were causing us concern, the Contract stated that the Builder "reserves the right to change nominated suppliers and specification to items of similar quality".
We wanted to amend this to say that the Builder "is not entitled to change nominated suppliers and specification without prior written authorisation from the owner." They would not accept this change.
We spoke to someone who built with these builders some time back and he mentioned that he did not receive the same oven and the spa bath that were in the display house and in his contract. We could never understand how the builder could deviate from the contract. It would now appear that with a clause such as this, the builder would be free to make such changes.
We would be interested to know if anyone else has had a similar clause included in their contract.
Thanks in advance.