Building Contractor

Help Out with a Building Contract Draft

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Today, I got the below WhatsApp message from one of my customers:

Customer: Hey good morning Arun.

Customer: I bought one of your expense calculators, and it is very detailed. Thank you very much.

Customer: I am right now signing a contract with my contractor and just getting quotes.

Customer: I wanted to check if you could help out with a contract draft that I use.

No. I don’t offer 1 on 1 support.

Instead, you can go through my Building Contractor Guide, where I shared many tips for framing a good building labour contract.

I don’t have any standard contractor agreement format.

Most of the time, your building contractor won’t understand my language. And I cannot make an agreement in all the languages.

So, Instead of giving a standard contractor agreement format, what I’m doing is… I’m sharing some important points you must mention in the agreement.

By this way… No matter what the agreement, your contractor can bring. Include the points I shared in my guide inside your building contractor agreement.

By including those points, you will safeguard yourself.

Those are the points where the difference between you and the contractor usually arises.

And most first-time owners aren’t even aware of those things. This is a plus for the contractor to make more money or trouble owners (depending on the contractors) once construction starts.

Apart from framing contract tips, I also have a lot of general construction tips as well. Learn and avoid making them when you are constructing your building.

Hope it helps.

Arun

₹2,78,760 Saved by Following this One Tip

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Today, I got up at 5:30 Am, which rarely happens.

I read one chapter on a copywriting book and turned on my desktop to start my regular online work.

As it’s an early morning without any disturbance, I decided to create a few simple image ads to start advertising my Building Contractor Guide.

I took one important tip and created a Facebook image ad.

It’s a very valuable tip, but in that guide, I explained that concept in only a few lines.

Which buyers can easily ignore, or that point may go unnoticed.

I don’t want that to happen.

Because, if they properly implement that tip… They could save a lot.

Which is what I needed.

I need to help as many customers as possible by guiding them correctly as much as possible.

So, I decided to do something about that tip.

From this afternoon onwards, I was working on expanding the concept so readers can understand it and its importance easily.

Just understanding is not enough…

They need to implement this in their building to actually save.

So, to take them seriously, I took our second building’s real details and showed all the calculations of how this tip helped save money in our case.

After some calculations, it came to around ₹2,78,760.

Your savings could change depending on your construction budget.

I believe showing the actual number with real data calculation helps users take that tip seriously.

If you have access to the Building Contractor Guide, please download the updated guide (I keep updating, sorry!) to see the tip with real calculation at #3.13.

I also added another tip to safeguard yourself from accidents at 3.16.

If you don’t have access, read more details about my Building Contractor Guide here. If it makes sense, you can purchase it.

When JCB sound starts…

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Before bringing JCB to do any work, I have a small tip to share.

Inform the JCB operator to follow only your instructions and not all the visitors.

The reason?

In some cases, if you bring a JCB to do your task, neighbours sometimes ask you or a JCB guy to do the cleaning work here and there.

You cannot say No in front of them. You cannot say Yes also…

Some use such instances very well.

They don’t pay for using such a service. They just want to use free service when you bring a JCB vehicle.

It depends on the place and people near your site. This doesn’t happen in all places.

Just sharing so you are aware of it.

Today, I added one more important and a money-saving tip to the Building Contractor Guide. If you have not yet done your earthwork, read the tip in section 4.68 (46th page).

Arun

Engineer measurement to easy to understand way

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When your engineer gives your building plan, they give it on paper containing dimensions, which usually cannot be felt in most cases.

If you want to experience room dimensions live practically, what I recommend is…

Ask labourers to build one course of masonry (one bricklayer) according to the engineer’s plan during construction time. Now, go and walk and feel physically to experience the room’s size live.

If you find something you need to change, make changes and experience first. If you feel good, then proceed with the remaining construction/masonry work.

Don’t make changes too much after construction work is already done.

It’s simply a waste of materials and labour charges.

Keep in mind you cannot make changes however you need. You can only change in some areas, not all the places.

The reason is that the engineer plans pillars and beams where required. You cannot move walls randomly…

If you are in doubt, you can always ask the building contractor or engineer before making changes. They will tell if it can be done without issue or not.

When we checked the room size like this, we made our hall a little bigger than the engineer’s plan without affecting any load issues.

Not only that…

We made some minor alterations here and there without affecting the engineering plan too much.

If you need to get such ideas, you must do this one brick construction and experience and think in that spot.

The more family members, contractors, friends present on that day, better the idea you can get.

There is no better suggestion than this tip to experience room sizes.

Most important, valuable, and common mistakes realted to construction are shared in my building contractor guide.

These mistakes are like make once, and suffer longer time kind of…

Arun

How this contractor stop work at the ending stage of construction

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Yesterday, I shared about one contractor’s real incident that happened near our building.

I promised to share about this contractor story today… So, I’m writing this blog post.

This contractor’s house is near our area. And he did a few projects here.

One good thing about this contractor is that he always asks for low contract prices compared to the market rate.

So, people looking for a cheap contractor go with this contractor.

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one cement bag gone?

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Yesterday, after lunch, I was returning from our first house to the second house through the backside door.

I guess the time was around 3:30pm…

When I came to my home office, I noticed something strange near the house construction spot from my window.

Two guys came by scooty, and the building contractor put one cement bag on that scooty.

That time, the owner was not there…

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don’t take it seriously about per chadura rate — informed my relative

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I’m back from my wife’s hometown function today.

While I was there, I met lots of our relatives. I felt good speaking to some of our relatives.

While going to have food, one of our relatives started conservation related to constructing their rental property near their home and showed me the building plan.

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Our rainy day issue

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This incident happened in our first building. Our construction work is over. We also moved to our new building…

Everything is going well until the rainy season starts. 

When the rain started, we noticed some mistakes but didn’t take them seriously. 

As days passed, we repeatedly did the same problem-fixing task. We thought we could have used some of our brains at that moment.

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