Site handover checklist agreed
Why — act while you have leverage
Benchmark level marked, temporary power and water agreed - including whose cost they are, a classic quote gap - storage location and access confirmed. Ten minutes now prevents the first week of disputes.
What to look at
- Temporary services cost allocated in writing
- Storage and access agreed before the first delivery arrives
How to check it yourself
Confirm before start: benchmark level; temporary electricity and water and WHOSE COST that is, a classic quotation gap that must be pinned in the agreement; material storage and labour shed; access for material vehicles; and site security.
More construction agreement checks before you sign
- Agreement check passed
- Contractor background verified
- Worker-welfare rules applicability checked
- GST treatment understood before signing
- The payment schedule keeps money back until the end
- The agreement does not contradict itself
- GST is stated, and you know who pays it
- You know who you are contracting with
- Price escalation has a limit you can calculate
- Foundation extras cannot be open-ended
- Curing is the contractor's job, in writing
- The arbitrator is not chosen by the contractor alone
- There is a warranty, and it has a length
- Worker safety stays with the contractor
- Signing for a stage does not sign away everything after it
- There is a way to settle a dispute short of court
- Cancellation terms are not written by one side
- Nobody else builds your house without you knowing
- No blank spaces, no missing dates
- Money goes to the company, not to a person
- You can ask where the money went
- Delay has a consequence for both sides
- The quotation is attached to the agreement
- Force majeure is not a blanket excuse
The whole stage: Construction agreement checks before you sign