OK Since no one else is posting on here, I will.
Work was due to start on 13 August, but the digger was broken (off to Fort William for TLC). Roy went to meet the builder and digger-driver on site and plodded around in the rain discussing where the access road will go.
Wed 22nd - Contract signed! (yes a bit topsy turvy but it's OK - the work on site still hasn't started).
And the builder has asked Mary to ask Dr D not to contact him directly... oh dear, my parents are the Clients from Hell already and no turf has been turned!
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It will cheaper if all instructions are given through architect. Believe me!
what is the contract ?
What do you mean, what is the contract? Houses don't just build themselves. Huge quantities of money have to be transported, after complicated arrangements and certification, to builders. (And all sorts of other people.) And the Contract determines how much and when.
Or do you mean that as a technical question? JCT Scottish Minor Works is the answer, if you did.
And it is not just cheaper but altogether less complicated if all instructions go through the architect.
Also, she is, more or less, there, and we are here or, looked at another way, almost anywhere but there.
stupid question sorry- no I just thought you had already done all that sort of stuff yonks ago.
You'd think, wouldn't you?!
When I was on site, any instructions I gave to the contractor had to be backed up pronto in writing by the Resident Engineer. We would write out the Site instruction and bung it front of him for signature. generally we would try and do this before instructing Contractor, but not always possible when a safety issue.
We have just seen the first AI: about the change of site. It has a non-existent stream in the attached sketch; but it also has all the right things about preserving trees and so on. It also has Mary's current obsession - a line of turf roofed sheds against the back of the excavation. This is an idea I first mooted with her over a year agon which she has adopted. Whether the excavation will in fact be deep enough for sheds is not yet known. I am keen, but Roy is less so.
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