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Latest Blog Posts
Consumer Building Guide NSW- Contract Contents
In NSW, by statutory law, any contract for home building work worth more than $5,000 must contain certain information as listed below: 1. The parties 2. The work 3. Insurance 4. Statutory warranties 5. Compliance with laws 6. Additional contents. Reference- NSW Fair Trading viewed 15/2/12, image source google Como Building P/L, Michael Como provides…
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Building Green Homes in Florida 3
Higher Insulating Values Friends, in 2009 my chosen blog designer provided a game plan and a decent upfront fee. After expending AUD$, years go by so quickly, and a new blog designer disagrees thus I spent more AUD $ upfront in 2017. Time rolls on and the blogs are judged wrong by the powerhouse. So…
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Green Building Products 2
Ideal Solution Friends, in 2009 my chosen blog designer provided a game plan and a decent upfront fee. After expending AUD$, years go by so quickly, and a new blog designer disagrees thus I spent more AUD $ upfront in 2017. Time rolls on and the blogs are judged wrong by the powerhouse. So be…
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Consumer Building Guide NSW- Rise and Fall
‘^^ Rise ^^ and fall > \ is an agreed method of upward or downward cost adjustment to the price of the contract to allow for fluctuations in the cost of labour or material during the construction period. Rise and fall clauses are extremely useful when the cost of materials can increase on a monthly…
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Building Green Homes in Costa Rica 3
Sustainability & Economy Friends, in 2009 my chosen blog designer provided a game plan and a decent upfront fee. After expending AUD$, years go by so quickly, and a new blog designer disagrees thus I spent more AUD $ upfront in 2017. Time rolls on and the blogs are judged wrong by the powerhouse. So…
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Building Green Homes 29
Friends, in 2009 my chosen blog designer provided a game plan and a decent upfront fee. After expending AUD$, years go by so quickly, and a new blog designer disagrees thus I spent more AUD $ upfront in 2017. Time rolls on and the blogs are judged wrong by the powerhouse. So be it, the…
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Building Green Homes in Kamloops
Training Tomorrow’s Builders Today Friends, in 2009 my chosen blog designer provided a game plan and a decent upfront fee. After expending AUD$, years go by so quickly, and a new blog designer disagrees thus I spent more AUD $ upfront in 2017. Time rolls on and the blogs are judged wrong by the powerhouse.…
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Building Green Homes in Guatemala
Build With Waste Friends, in 2009 my chosen blog designer provided a game plan and a decent upfront fee. After expending AUD$, years go by so quickly, and a new blog designer disagrees thus I spent more AUD $ upfront in 2017. Time rolls on and the blogs are judged wrong by the powerhouse. So…
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Building Green Homes 28
Do Your Part Doing your part for the environment is very important no matter where you live. Every day more and more pollution is being put into our environment and it is important that in the future we all work to keep our world as clean as possible. There are many ways to go about…
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Solar Powered Green Home 2
Sun Heat Visit – www.SolarStirlingPlants.com – Solar Stirling Plant is a revolutionary innovation that works by using the sun’s heat for making electricity (free from the sun). Solar Energy Generator This is a completely different solar energy generator called – Stirling Plant, it is a method that produces 12x more energy in comparison to the expensive…
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Building a Straw House 10
Find Tips Friends, in 2009 my chosen blog designer provided a game plan and a decent upfront fee. After expending AUD$, years go by so quickly, and a new blog designer disagrees thus I spent more AUD $ upfront in 2017. Time rolls on and the blogs are judged wrong by the powerhouse. So be…
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Consumer Building Guide NSW- Prime cost items
Prime Costs and Provisional Sums. Prime Cost (PC) items and provisional sums (PS) are two items in a standard building contract that cause great confusion among homebuyers or homeowners. Most building contracts are called “fixed-price contracts”, but the final contract sum can vary due to fluctuations in PC and PS items. Prime cost items are…
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