Step 3

Preliminary Services Agreement

This outlines the stages of this phase and both our responsibilities. We will work closely with you through these stages to ensure the process is as easy and rewarding as possible. By working together through these stages we are preparing the ground to embark on to the successful and smooth completion of the next phase – construction.

In overview this process is where you take your current “brainstorm” design through to working drawings and ultimately contract signing and hence are ready for construction to begin. There are a number of inter related steps to achieve this, in overview these are (milestones in bold):

Stage	Our Role	Your Role
Final Full Measure	Visit site and confirm/gather all required measurements and discuss any final design changes
Working drawing development	Incorporate design changes and develop documentation to provide working drawings	Feedback on drawings and electrical layout plan
Sign off working drawings	Once you have signed off on working drawings we will lodge with Council for Planning Approval	Consider the working drawings and when comfortable with them sign them off to indicate no more changes to design
Lodgment for Planning approval	Lodge drawings to Council, monitoring of process	Input into any changes required by Council
Engineering and surveying (if required)	Organise engineering and site survey (if required)	Organise site access for soil sampling and surveyors – if necessary
Selections	Our Interior Designer, will contact you. She will guide you through selections of tiles, appliances, sanitary ware, kitchen, joinery and finishes etc. Our designer will also assist you with achieving your styling requirements including the preparation of interior and paint colour schemes and collate selections for your building schedule.	Meet and liaise with our designer for assistance and queries. Meet our recommended suppliers and make your selections.
Kitchen/Cabinet design	Our Kitchen Designer, will help you through the design of your Kitchen/cabinet design	Meet with our designer and work together to design the cabinets
Sign off selections	Collate all selections (refer Items 6 & 7 above)	Consider the selections, electrical layout and cabinet designs and when comfortable with them sign them off to indicate no more changes
Prepare and lodge for Building Approval	Obtain necessary engineering & timber framing layouts and lodge to Private Certifier to obtain Building Approval	Nil
Finalise Schedule	The Selection process will clarify much of the Building Schedule. We will meet with you to finalise all schedule issues	Input into schedule and “sign off” on schedule
Pricing	Once we have signed off working drawings, planning approval and final signed off selections we do a final costing the project.	Nil
Development Approval	Obtain final approval from Council, being Development Approval (the third step after Planning and Building Approval) from the Council	Nil. Note this process may take 3 to 4 weeks and is required before construction commences.
Contract meeting	We will meet you to go through all aspects of the contract. A “fixed” price will be determined before contract signing
Contract signing	Documents prepared ready for signing	Sign contracts
Finance Approval		Provide finance approval
Start Construction phase

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