Thank you all for the responses. One of the email he sent me was "UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES" as the title then sends me a variation for daily cost of the delay.…

The builder has not done any work but site cut. I tried to call him to negotiate . What is the definition of commencement? There is an ambiguity around this…

Hello!
Can someone please advise me this Clause 16.2?
My builder is giving me a large variation due to our site having absestos after site cut, We had to organise…

Thank you for your reply. Yes maybe the word overthinking was not the right word. I didn’t mean it like that. Sorry if you thought I was rude or anything.…

Thanks for your honesty.
I think you are overthinking this. Every build is different, people change their minds all the time. Hence there are variations. You can’t have it perfect first…

So just a quick update. The builder has now deleted the piering cost. He said it was base on good will. I have asked multiple times if there was something…

Hi Everyone,
So we have signed our contract and have paid 5% deposit. The contract includes a swimming pool and prime cost for cabinetry kitchen and laundry.
I’m not a big…

The trees we have is all in the back of the land and we have cut it all down.

Yeah the builder didn’t want to go with my design as it was conventional and he wanted to use the waffle design for economical.

Also I got a conventional slab design done from my engineered and it only had 10 piers.so I don’t know why the builders engineer required 62 piers.

Thanks for the reply. We demolish the house , and did the soil test straight away. So it’s a class P Otherwise Class M. The geotech and building designer said…

Hi All,
Our builder has asked us to pay almost 12k extra for extra piercing for the waffle raft slab as there are 62 piers.
I asked the builder several times…

Okay so the builder said was pretty flexible and he said he will fix the default interest rate lower (18%) and the late completion as the default $50 per day.…

Thanks everyone for replying. Luckily I have not signed the contract yet and I only put $500 to get the ball rolling. As I organised the preliminary items like soil…

Hi,
I’m about to sign a contract with a builder and in the contract for the default interest rate they put 45% and the late completion damages is $5 per day.
If…