Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Did you get a solicitor to look over your building contract? 8Oct 14, 2008 7:59 am Helyn Anyway moral of the story: check and recheck every specification and variation and colour selection, as well as the actual terms of the contract. This is very true... For mine, i have added door stops thoughout the house, the word 'throughout' is on the contract, but when you look closely, you will see that they also indicated "7no" at the end of the specification, I have 11 doors in total in my house, why only 7no is indicated.. just like that.. you have to be careful and check and recheck... Blog - http://clageonewhouse.blogspot.com/ Building Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=10886&hilit=milan I am in, with my husband and my beautiful bunny Re: Did you get a solicitor to look over your building contract? 9Oct 14, 2008 8:18 am Judie,
Don't be fooled when builders say its a standard HIA contract. When i actually paid the $10 or so to buy the 'standard' contract from HIA and sat it down and compared it word for word with mine and you will notice a lot of differences. (generally in the favour of the builder) Little things i found are :- - Where HIA specify the number of days you have to pay when a claim is made is different, my ******* builder only allowed a very low number of days so if you need to get the money from the bank to pay then it would be difficult - Look at the ways they calculate 'working days' and how they specify what is a raining day and using what source - Look at who is is liable for the electricity and water during the build time as they need to pay for it not you. - Other timing differences to their favour. - There was a whole section left out and i can't remember for hte life of me... Will post more if it comes to me. Cheers Smeags. ---->Some say that a recession is when your neighbour loses his/her job while a depression is when you lose yours!<----- Re: Did you get a solicitor to look over your building contract? 10Oct 14, 2008 8:50 am Our builder is good. They gave us a copy of the standard HIA contract, so we didn't have to go get one ourselves. We will use it to compare of course:)
The document number on mine is H-NHC - Nov 2004. Is there a later version? Greg Re: Did you get a solicitor to look over your building contract? 11Oct 14, 2008 9:02 am We signed our contract about 4 months ago.
After that came all the detailed stuff. Also, all the PCVs. Plans, elevations, colour selections, electrical plans, kitchen plans, etc... we signed off just before construction last week. We had no issues with this process. Anything included in the signed contract, which we decided to exclude, was credited. Built the Eden Brae Cambridge 34 Family with Boston Corner Facade Re: Did you get a solicitor to look over your building contract? 12Oct 14, 2008 11:31 am Southies We signed our contract about 4 months ago. After that came all the detailed stuff. Also, all the PCVs. Plans, elevations, colour selections, electrical plans, kitchen plans, etc... we signed off just before construction last week. We had no issues with this process. Anything included in the signed contract, which we decided to exclude, was credited. How can someone sign a contract, which I assume has a price, and then work out all the detailed stuff (which would affect price)? Demolition August 2009, Construction Started September 2009, Completed December 2010 No the fireplace doesn’t work. It’s been enclosed. I’m not sure what was removed, as it was done quite some time ago - well before what I can see with photos online… 2 11729 You talk about deletions, are they variations or PS and PC adjustments? pleas list them 1 16771 The worst thing you can do is sign a building contract without a pre contract review. Over the years many people have come to me with disputes where they just signed… 0 8538 |