Building and renovating can be one of the most stressful things you will take on during your life. Although you might engage a builder, pool company, renovator, or architect you might still be left wondering what is my part in this process? Many times, I heard from people saying I don’t know what’s going on with my project and what am I to do to that will ensure there are no delays and I get the result I’m after.
As I previously mentioned majority of people will be likely to only ever to do this once in their life time so they are not expected to know the ins and outs and what I see is that the contractor they have employed and are paying all this money to expect that the client will know everything, when that is not the case, nor should it be expected!
What we offer is a service that creates a bridge between you and your head contractor. We work through the project with you and your builder helping you understand what tasks you need to undertake and at what stages to ensure that streamlined process.
Examples of what you might be expected to know.
You may be interested in our recent Toorak Gardens case study.
In House Design
We understand that you’re not a builder or an interior designer, but your builder may not! We can offer the services of an in-house designer to help you get right layout of your kitchen and the correct colour pallet to compliment the entire project.
Understanding Your Selections
When building or renovating you are going to have to select finishes for items such as kitchen and bathrooms. You will be asked things like do you want 2 pack or shaker doors? Do you want Caesar stone of laminate bench tops? Do you want mixer taps or a breacher piece? Are the wall cupboards going to have pelmets or open? What type of light switches and power points do you want? Are the floors getting carpeted or polished concrete?
Along with these selection questions will come the questions of lead times and what needs to happen first during the building process.
What Comes First
Consider your putting a pool in, you will need to have selected the tiles, coping and grout colours. These all need to be chosen well before the pool gets installed. Then what happens have you engaged a plumber and electrician? These two trades will play a crucial role in your project and knowing what to get them to do in the right order is critical to your pool’s installation success. Pool fencing is it compliant and will it meet council pool inspections?
There are various stages during a building project which need to happen before each other to ensure that things happen correctly without the need to re do work and consequently cost more money and cause time delays.
Renovating A Bathroom
When you renovate a bathroom or ensuite there will be some key items to have selected early in the project. What tapware will you be using? What type of floor grate will you use? Are there any significant lead times? Majority of these crucial points many builders expect that you the client will already be across and have ready for them.
Storm Water
Majority of building contracts will stipulate storm water by owner. There are many key points to consider with storm water installations. Will there be sump pumps, if so, how do you get electricity to these? Does there need to be sleeves put under the drive way for future connections? What has the councils minimum site catchment requirement been set out? What fixtures does the rain water need to feed? Is there a requirement for firefighting water on the property?
How we help you!
At Mayfair Building Group we are here to help you step by step through the building process. We can meet with you before you even start a renovation to help you understand time frames and potential costs. We can also start with you right at the very early stages of the project and help to understand the various stages the project will need to go through just to get started. From there we can help you through the other various stages of the project helping you understand what will be expected and in what order you might need these steps to go in.
It is amazing to hear just how many people have no real idea of what is happening with their building process and just rely upon the head contractor to involve them and this doesn’t seem to happen very often.
We are here to offer you a step-by-step process of what you are to expect, provide with information on where to choose your various styles and materials and to ensure your project is moving along in the right direction. We can help you in ensure that the progress claims are equal to the work being claimed for. Dispute resolution between you and the builder.
Tailoring A Package For Your Project
We understand each project is different and every project will require a different level of involvement from us with you. We can offer a package which might only require a handful of hours and offer packages which will include 30 hours of our help for you, whatever your requirements we will tailor a package to suit your needs.
If you find that the during the project, you need more help we also an hourly rate to make sure you get what you need right to the hand over process and moving in.
Please feel free to contact us for further information on info@mayfairbuildinggroup.com.au OR call us on 0429 361 819 we would like to hear about your project and help you get through the process as smooth as possible. We offer services all around Australia, we can’t wait to hear from you.