What to Check Before Choosing a Building Contractor

Choosing a building contractor is choosing who will make decisions on your land for many months. A low opening number is one fact. It is not the whole decision. The checks below are ordinary, and they are available to any client who is willing to slow the conversation down.

A company you can name

Know the legal name, not only a Facebook page. Kandy Prime Builders (Pvt) Ltd is a registered company; the work was previously carried out as Mastercraft Constructions. Whoever you hire, you should be able to say who the contract is with, and how you will reach them when a question cannot wait until the next site visit.

Ask who is actually on site day to day. A contractor who quotes and then disappears, leaving an unsupervised crew, has not finished the job of being the contractor.

Work you can look at

Photographs help, and a finished house you are allowed to see helps more. Ask what the contractor’s own team did, as opposed to what was only supplied. KPB will publish completed and ongoing projects separately from house concepts, so a real building is not confused with a design that has not been built. Until those photographs are on this site, ask directly and expect a straight answer about what can be visited.

A quotation you can read

• The address and a short description of the building.
• Floors, approximate area, and the drawings the price is based on.
• What is included: structure, walls, roof, and which finishes.
• What is excluded. Exclusions are a sign of clarity, not of a trick, when they are written in advance.
• How a change to the drawing will be priced.
• A sequence of payments tied to stages of work, not only to calendar dates.

Money, time, and changes

Be wary of a large share of the price due before materials are on site or before any measurable work is complete. Be wary, too, of a price that can only stay low if every later decision is an extra. Ask how variations are approved. A variation agreed in writing is a normal part of building. A variation that appears only on the final bill is a dispute.

Ask what the programme assumes about rain, access, and decisions you still have to make, such as tiles or aluminium. Dates that pretend those things do not exist will move, and the relationship usually moves with them.

How KPB would rather start

Send the location, the land, and whatever drawing you have. You will get an initial consultation and, when the scope can be named, a quotation you can question. Read how KPB describes its own principles, then request an estimate if the checks above are the ones you wanted a contractor to pass.