Who should you choose to build your house? Even if you have a beautiful design in hand, you still have to carefully choose a contractor to turn that design into reality. WiWin will share some experiences in choosing the right contractor.
1. Experience in contractor selection
It is very difficult to know if the contractor you are offering is really the quality they advertise to you or not? One way is, instead of letting the contractor come to you, go check out homes in your area yourself, or visit a relative’s home that has built before and ask who their contractor is? Take a closer look at their construction work to your liking? Talk to that landlord about the quality of the contractor. You should not only listen to the general introduction of the contractor but go to the specific project to visit and should go with a construction consultant.
You need to be wary of self-introductions by someone claiming to be a grandchild (grandson) of a father or a nun to gain your trust. Also be careful with referrals coming from someone who works in a construction management agency whose property is under their control. The purpose here is that you need to find the right person to directly execute the construction, not the middlemen (storks).
One important thing, a good contractor is a contractor who listens and understands his wishes, ideas and moreover, they have personality and understanding of construction techniques (thanks to the inspection consultant).
Of course, these are only initial options, the next step is to reach agreement in the contract.
The next thing is that you should not be afraid to work with multiple contractors at the same time. It should be understood that this is a civil relationship on the basis of “agree to buy and sell”, so you should boldly invite at least a few contractors with specific agreements to have the best options for you.
3. Advantages and disadvantages of different types of contracts
Currently, contract allocation is popular in the following three forms:
Manpower part:
– This type is popular in rural areas and only a few in cities. In which the entire labor is contracted with a value of money, the rest you will buy all the materials used in your house.
– The value of this type of labor is calculated based on the estimate of the total amount of work and calculated into money. More common is the calculation based on m2 of house use: m2 used x (multiplied by) unit cost of labor/m2 used + added value (foundation form, roof form, …).
– The advantage of this is that the labor value is usually small and you buy materials so you don’t have to worry much when signing a contract. So if you are someone who can find time to closely monitor (every day) the construction of the house, you should choose this option.
– This type of contract should be noted: when preparing to build a house, you often ask “how much is the construction fee per square meter?” , the answer if any will be very vague so it should be for reference only. You should be more concerned with the (final) total amount than with the money/m2 value. Because here there are many ways to calculate the total m2 used as well as the way to calculate the added value of each contractor is also very different. (some places also calculate the area based on the area … roof, called “falling water”. The purpose is only to get the largest area).
Manpower and Raw materials:
– This style is popular in cities and is becoming a popular trend. Accordingly, the entire labor and the value of the main materials that make up the frame of the house are contracted with a value of money, the rest of the materials belonging to the interior and decoration items will be your own. purchased for installation.
– The value for the construction of this rough part is also calculated per m2 of construction. However, it is more standard to calculate based on an “estimate table” calculated on the design. Actually speaking based on m2 is just a short way to say after having calculated on the estimate, it cannot be applied to all houses because the structure of each house is different.
– This type of advantage when you do not have time to do the work of purchasing and maintaining those supplies and you also do not want to have the trouble of having a variety of materials and finishing equipment. , it’s best to save this part to buy it yourself.
– What should this type of attention be? You need to have a very detailed design (checked), a very complete contract (see the construction contract section) and organize good supervision, to avoid trouble for you when subsequent occurrence. For the value of labor and raw materials, you should ask another person to make a different estimate than the one the contractor gave. There may be a small fee for this, but you have a basis for assessing the true value of this work.
Turnkey Project:
– This type is usually only common in public-invested projects (state-owned projects), appears very rarely in self-invested housing projects and also causes some concern for genuine contractors. . Accordingly, the project is calculated as a package according to the design, you only pay and receive the key to stay, so it is called the “turn-key” form.
– The value of the work is based on a fairly detailed estimate table, detailing each type of equipment to be used in the project.
– The advantage of this type is that it is healthy and has little to worry about. But this type is also easy to cause controversy because there are too many types and prices of materials to be used, between the time of receiving the contract and the time of payment and settlement that even people in the profession can hardly imagine. If you are in a situation where you have to choose this type, you can refer to the option of separating the house construction into 2 contracts including the rough part and the finished part.
– Here you need a very detailed design, a detailed contract with a detailed list of finishing materials and a real supervision organization.
