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Renovation Cost Blowouts are Unnecessary

March 7, 2025

Renovation cost blowouts are unnecessary

There is probably not a week that goes by when I am not talking to someone about a renovation job that exceeded the expected budget, sometimes catastrophically and significantly.I have real-life examples where the cost has doubled or the full cost has been reached and the jo...

Hourly rates are good...... aren't they?

March 19, 2024

The Contract Line

I had recently come across a line in a building contract which read " you will only be charged for the hours that are used".I was stunned for a while after reading that. I must have read it wrong. No, I read it again and the self-evident statement was still there.It is a rel...

Residential Quantity Surveying

June 10, 2023

What got me thinking…

I was visiting the site of a new residential house build the other day and talking to the Builder he opined that “with people currently struggling to afford the amount they have to borrow to build nowadays, then they have the extra expense of a Quantity Surveyor on top of ...