Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Contract signing tips and traps 5Jul 19, 2018 3:09 pm icat2000 Check, check, check, read, read, read or pay for a professional to read the contract. If unsure ask the builder to clarify any clauses or anything you are not sure about. Cause once you sign you are committed and there could be penalties for breaking the Contract. If your borrowing money to finance the build make sure there is a Finance clause in there that allows you enough time to get the Finance approved. Have you gotten a quote for Simmonds on what is included in the base specifications and what are the extra costs for things you might like to upgrade to? Have you gotten a quote for Simmonds on what is included in the base specifications and what are the extra costs for things you might like to upgrade to? I've already gotten the application in for the finance and bank said he has NO issues getting me the amount of money I want so this should be sorted by next tuesday In regards to extra costs for things to upgrade, all I have is an estimate on the structurals and the base inclusions like tiles, carpet aircon etc when I was working with the sales lady on the final plans submitted for drafting. I have little, to NO idea what they might like to charge if I want to upgrade the finishes or add some zones to aircon for example. Is this something I should request from them before the meeting next tuesday. I want to go in well prepared so I don't get beaten by any tricks etc. This is my first time dealing with these people (builders ) so not awares of shonks they might try and pull. Should I be requyesting further information about things now and what should these things be ?? Thanks for your advise, very friendly people on here! 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 16666 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 7275 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 14401 |