Step 1 · Survey
Site, access and ground conditions.
What we do, in detail
Two activities, with the applicable regime stated for each.
Program 01 · Paid as built
Structural work on houses
Where the Breyne Act governs the contract, payments are called only against work actually executed and the deposit cannot exceed five per cent. That is not our policy, it is mandatory law, and a contractor asking for thirty per cent up front on a protected contract is telling you something important about how the rest will go.
Step 2 · Contract
Written, with the Act's particulars.
Step 3 · Build
Billed against real progress.
Step 4 · Accept
Provisional, then final a year on.
Step 1 · Guarantee
Provided as the Act requires.
Step 2 · Provisional
What it does and does not mean.
Step 3 · One year
Defects appear with seasons.
Step 4 · Final
Only then is it closed.
Program 02 · Two stages, a year apart
Guarantees and acceptance
Provisional acceptance is not agreement that everything is finished, and plenty of clients sign it believing it is. Final acceptance comes at least a year later, which is the point: a winter passes and defects that only appear with time become visible before the matter is closed. We explain both stages rather than presenting one signature as the end.
Program 03 · A different regime
Subcontract structural work
Working for a developer is a business-to-business relationship and the Breyne protections belong to the eventual homebuyer against whoever sells to them, not to us or our client. We say so rather than implying a protection that is not engaged. What applies instead is the contract, the programme and the ten-year liability on dwellings.
Step 1 · Scope
The package and its interfaces.
Step 2 · Programme
Sequence and dependencies.
Step 3 · Build
To the agreed specification.
Step 4 · Hand over
Documented for the next trade.
Step 1 · Requirement
What you actually need.
Step 2 · Principal
Named before anything proceeds.
Step 3 · Introduce
Terms agreed with them.
Step 4 · Clarity
Who you contract with, in writing.
Program 04 · We are not the seller
Commercial agency
As an agent we act for a principal and we do not take title to goods, which means the sale contract is between you and that principal — they carry the seller's obligations on conformity and warranty, not us. We name who we are acting for before any transaction, because a customer who assumes they bought from us would be pursuing the wrong party.
Got a house to build or a package to price?
A free site visit and a written quotation, with the payment rules set out.