Services for Before the Build, Self Builders

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Services

The five checks that decide the build before it starts: the professionals' appointment terms and every advance payment read before money moves, a budget built from your drawings and tested against your funding, a contract read before it is signed, and builder quotes rebuilt onto one basis.

Professional Appointment Review

Risk mitigationFixed FeeFor Self Builders5 working days

The appointment terms your architect, engineer or designer asks you to sign, read properly before signature: up to three proposals levelled onto one basis so the fees can genuinely be compared, a plain-English note of what each fee basis does when the build changes, and the questions to send each consultant before you commit.

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Deposit & Advance Payment Review

Risk mitigationFixed FeeFor Self Builders5 working days

Every payment your build asks you to make before you have the thing you are paying for, added up in one place before the money moves: the most at risk at any one moment, what would actually protect each pound if a supplier failed, checks on the companies holding the largest amounts, and the changes to ask for before you sign.

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Budget & Cost Plan

Risk mitigationFixed FeeFor Self Builders10 working days

Your build costed properly before the design is frozen: a budget built from your drawings and your site rather than a square-metre rule of thumb, split into the packages you will actually buy, with a cashflow forecast and a contingency sized to your real risks.

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Contract Selection & Review

Risk mitigationFixed FeeFor Self Builders5 working days

The building contract chosen to fit your build and read properly before you sign it: what you are promising to pay and when, what happens when things change, what cover actually sits behind the builder, and which clauses decide who carries each risk.

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Tender & Quote Review

Risk mitigationFixed FeeFor Self Builders5 working days

Builder quotes rebuilt onto one basis so they can actually be compared: what each one includes, what each one quietly leaves out, where the provisional sums and exclusions sit, and which price is realistic rather than merely lowest.

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