Know what it costs. Know what you are signing.

Before you go too far. Send what you have, answer twenty questions, and get a straight cost range from a builder who prices these every week.

• A cost range for your project with the drivers explained
• What is and is not in the number
• What to sort out before you talk to builders

Upload the quote and the drawings. We price the job ourselves and put the two side by side: what is missing, what is loaded, what could blow out.

• Your quote against an independent cost plan, line by line where the quote allows
• Provisional sums and prime cost items explained in dollars
• Scope gaps and exclusions you may not have noticed
• The questions to ask your builder before you sign

A plain-English cost and scope read of the building contract: stage payments, allowances, exclusions and variation terms. Not legal advice, builder sense.

• Stage payment schedule checked against the work
• Every provisional sum and prime cost item listed with its risk
• Exclusions and owner-supply items made visible
• Variation and delay terms explained in cost terms

Is this claim right for the work done? Photos, claim and contract in, a yes or a not-yet out.

• Claim checked against the stage and the site photos
• Variations and adjustments reconciled
• A note you can send back to the builder

A variation priced independently so you know whether to sign it.

• The variation priced from our cost library
• What a fair margin on it looks like
• What to ask before you sign