Changes are happening before their price is agreed

A conversation on site is turning into work before anyone has put its cost in writing.

01Value the work

02Price the changes

03Keep the record

04Run the money side

You are here: The change is moving from a conversation into work.

What's happening?

Changes are normal on a live build, but the cost does not become clearer once the work is covered up or folded into the next payment request. Without an instruction, a price and a decision recorded at the time, it becomes hard to distinguish what was included from what was extra.

The useful sequence is simple: describe the change, obtain a price, decide whether to proceed and keep it in the running total. That gives you a current view of what the build now costs before the next change joins it.

The solution

Make each change visible, priced and decided before it becomes part of the work.

Variation Control & Registers

Risk mitigationFixed FeeOngoingFor Self Builders

Changes priced and agreed in writing before they are built, and a register that keeps the running total of your build honest: what changed, who asked for it, what it costs and what it does to the money left.

See how it works

Variation Register and Instruction Form

No change starts until its price is agreed in writing.

See the template

If you would rather it were done for you, Variation Control is the service that does it.