Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement Re: Fixed cost contract v Cost plus contract 21Feb 19, 2015 9:19 am Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Fixed cost contract v Cost plus contract 22Feb 19, 2015 6:36 pm Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Fixed cost contract v Cost plus contract 26Feb 20, 2015 7:04 am Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Fixed cost contract v Cost plus contract 28Feb 20, 2015 7:59 am Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Fixed cost contract v Cost plus contract 30Feb 20, 2015 9:01 am Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Fixed cost contract v Cost plus contract 32Feb 20, 2015 4:42 pm Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Fixed cost contract v Cost plus contract 34Feb 20, 2015 11:02 pm Building Services Engineer Renovating our 1960's modernist home in Brisbane https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=82091 Re: Fixed cost contract v Cost plus contract 35Feb 21, 2015 10:05 am Nearly all our renovation work was done like that as cost plus - mostly on older federation homes, Victorian terraces, post-war etc. You can break it down to individual rooms like a bathroom where you strip it back to bare brick and everything in the room will be new, but for a lot of it particularly where there is lots of patching to separate rooms and the clients wanting changes or add-ons to an original estimate, a fixed quote is hard to do unless you allow a heap more to cover yourself. If I had a dollar for every time I heard a client say " while you guys are here and you've got your tools out ..." That's where cost plus comes into its own. Give the clients an estimate and work from there. Stewie Alternatively, you can sign a contract with pre-defined known amount you pay to the builder for management and warranties and then you just pay the invoices their provide… 2 5058 Are you saying that these consultants are involved at key-points of the building, and perform site inspects at the stages, or only after building is completed to point… 4 8526 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 8 2133 |