Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Contract signing tips and traps 6Jul 19, 2018 3:42 pm If you want a landscape that is non AS2870 compliant (i.e. 900mm concrete all around, lawn, shrubs and small trees in that order), give it to your builder before you sign and have their engineers customise the slab to take into consideration of tree effects. Then put that in your contract. Your contract does not cover slab design, only performance level so if you have a special slab due to landscape/existing vegetation, you may want to include engineering drawings for slab as part of the contract so they can't change it half way through. You talk about deletions, are they variations or PS and PC adjustments? pleas list them 1 16550 Just be careful with building stability during construction, that is when the structure may be weakened, refer to your engineering drawings for stability methodology. 1 7223 Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14262 |