What this is, in a
We have taken the entire process of building your own home, from first starting to look for land through to getting ready to have your housewarming, and put together a set of tools that make the process easier. Whether it's helping you properly consider liveability factors when assessing a plot, putting together a professional budget or creating a full construction programme you can hand to lenders and contractors.
We have built out a tool that moves with you through the whole process and produces the key outputs every well run project needs. At the end of the journey is your project completion pack, which is a compendium of everything about your home and those that built it.
Project tools
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A dashboard
The whole build on one screen: budget, orders, programme, safety and consents, each marked green, orange or red.
You see what is going wrong while it is still small enough to fix.
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A plot assessment
Every plot you look at judged against the same list, with what you found on each one recorded beside it.
The reason you walked away from the third plot is still there in front of you when the sixth one looks perfect.
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A budget
Every cost on the build in one place, grouped the way the work is actually bought.
You find out what a decision costs while you can still change it, not at the end.
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A programme
The order the work has to happen in, with dates against it.
When the roof slips two weeks, it shows you what else moves and who needs telling.
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Enquiries and orders
One document per trade asking every builder the same questions, and the record of what you then agreed with each of them.
Prices you can actually compare, and no argument later about what was agreed or what is still owed.
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Quotes side by side
Every quote for a trade in one sheet, with what each one left out.
The cheapest price is usually the one missing something. This is where you see what.
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Safety paperwork
Your construction phase plan, the method statements the trades send you, and every induction, permit and notice that follows.
Not whether you have the document, but which version was in force that week and who had been briefed on it.
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A site diary
What happened each day, who was on site, and photographs of what is about to be covered up.
Fifteen years on, somebody opening that wall can see what is behind it and where.
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The completion pack
One PDF holding the certificates, warranties, drawings and photographs from the whole build.
Two years later, when somebody asks for the file, there is a file.
What it holds
Eight parts, met roughly in this order. It is here so you can see nothing is missing, not so you read it.
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Before you own anything
What you can afford, what actually matters to you about a plot, and every plot you are looking at judged against the same list.
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The facts about this build
Where it is, what it is, who is on it.
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Land and legal
What you found on the plot, what the paperwork says, and every place the two disagree.
See what this part holds
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Design and consents
Who you appointed, every decision about your home, the conditions you have to discharge, and which revision it was built to.
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Commercial
The budget, the enquiries, the quotes and the orders.
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Health and safety
Method statements, inductions, and what left site as waste.
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Site
The diary, the programme, the meetings and what you found when you walked round your home.
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Your documents
Everything handed to you along the way, filed where it belongs.
You keep it whether you stay subscribed or not.
When the build is done the whole thing comes out as one file, in an order somebody else can follow. Your own files come back exactly as you put them in, alongside it.