After the build
The build closed properly: the final account checked and settled as one figure you can stand behind, the snags and defects tracked until they are actually fixed, and the money still owed to you released on the contract's dates.
One figure you can stand behind, your side assembled first from the records, the builder's account checked against it line by line, what is owed conceded as firmly as what is not is refused, and the retention diarised until it is released.
Hover or tap any station for what happens there. The arrows run left to right from the finished house: the account lands, it is checked, the figure is ruled off.
Problems
Find the one that reads like your problem. Each page explains what is actually happening and the way out of it.
Services
Two services carry the end of the build: the builder's final account taken apart against your own side of it and settled at one figure you can stand behind, and the snagging, defects and retention months run to the contract's dates rather than the builder's convenience.
Products
The free template for the months after the builder leaves: the final account and snagging tracker.
Tips
Plain-English tips for the end of the build: the snag list priced, fixes closed on evidence, retention diarised, the final bill checked.
Snagging and defects
The end of the build is a list, and whoever writes the better list holds the ground.
Snagging and defects
The end of the build is a list, and whoever writes the better list holds the ground.
The last of the money
Retention and the final bill are where quiet self builders lose real money politely.
The last of the money
Retention and the final bill are where quiet self builders lose real money politely.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers to the questions self builders ask about snagging, the defects period, retention and the final bill, one question per page.