As spring builders deceive the customer?
I often hear from neighbors, friends and co-workers that dealt with them unfairly builders: the cheated, then slipped a low-quality material, the work performed is not as it should be and not during.
In this article I would like to sum up our own experience of interaction with the builders and at the end of the article be sure to give advice on how to avoid being cheated builders.
So, here are the three most frequently occurring group of nuances:
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Block 1: Materials.
By the words of the foreman should be treated with a reasonable share skepticism (I say, reasonable), builders like to overstate:
the purchase price of materials (Ask where they will buy and re-check with the seller)
cost of delivery (It is better to check with the seller, the delivery is there and how much it costs)
materials, without which you can do (Sometimes inflate the tube diameter fence profiled sheet thickness (mm 3 instead of 2), etc. This is done to get a large percentage of the agent commission from the vendor. -
Block 2: The cost of the work.
With this all easier: all adults and understand that our most important resource - time. The national average employee receives $ 100 per hour of work, construction - a special sphere, so the optimal price of the work 1 hour 1 builder about 250-300 rubles. Your task - correctly calculate man-hours and multiplied by 250/300 rubles. -
Block 3: haste
Most of my readers live in central Russia, and the construction season we lasts 4-5 months, so Builders are trying to quickly finish one object and move to another, because of the season they have to have time to earn for a year forward. Keep this in mind and check quality of work execution.
At the beginning of the article I promised to give you advice. I keep a promise
- Based on his experience saying that the best form of payment builders - 50% - prepayment, 50% - after acceptance. You do not pay ahead: stay with nothing and you will not have leverage on the builders.
- Choose builders who openly IP: with them it is possible to make the contract in the case of low-quality work, shake them with their money.