Always Check Your Builder's
contracts caution checklist
for Australian home building & renovations
- Some Tips from an old hand
- What are the minimum legal contractual terms for residential building work
- What is a contracts checklist
- Getting out of a building contract
- Variations to a building contract
- What is Implied Builders Warranty
- Provisional sum items
- Prime cost items
- Pre-construction contracts
- Types of Building Contracts, Small projects, Large projects, Whole or substantial build projects
- What is fixed price, What is cost plus, What is design and construct
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Pre-construction contracts
Your builder must obtain a soil report and foundation data to design the footings and to give you an adequate estimate of the
cost. (And if they don't, I'd be asking why).
They may ask you to sign a document to authorise this. This is not a bad thing. You may have to pay for this.
If you do, make certain you are able to receive and 'own' any copies of reports you are paying for.
A pre-construction contract is also casually referred to by builders as:
A preliminary agreement
A quote
An order
A preliminary contract estimate
A provisional quote to build on your land
An authorised tender acceptance
A contract request
However, if the pre-construction contract covers more than a soil report, and includes things such as design or specification
work, obtaining permits or other building work, it is a building contract.
It is illegal for a builder to misrepresent the two.