Help List for - Owner Builders

To make your building experience more pleasant DJ Personnel have put together a simple check list of requirements for you.

Note: All sub contractors and companies you employ on your project - from materials to labour - will price you for the known components. Always allow for extras and hourly rate work .

Examples of extras:

  1. Storm damage or vandalism is charged to the client.
  2. Plan error or modification by the owner is chargeable.
  3. Return visits due to missing materials.
  4. Anything that may hold up the tradesmen from doing a full days work.
Before the bricklaying start date ensure the following …
1 Do you have your own insurance in place?
2 Has a site surveyor marked out the boundary walls? This is done after the concreter.
3 Have you notified the neighbours about parking in the street as a courtesy?
4 Does the contractor have the latest plans?
5 Has the plumber completed his work before the bricks have arrived? This makes it easier for them to get machinery around your site before home is complete.
6 Has the sand been levelled around the slab? VERY IMPORTANT. You do not want bricks put on top of uneven ground. It becomes a danger and an insurance risk.
7 Have you covered any fences within two meters of the house with black plastic to avoid concrete and cement overspray?
8 Do you have a site shed?
9 Do you have power on site?
10 Do you have a water meter and tap on site, within 15 meters of the house?
11 Are all windows on site before start date?
12 Are all timber and steel doors on site before start date?
Do you have the following hardware ?
13 Wall ties - usually (30 bundles - 3 box's) per average house.
14 Cockburn grey cement (small bags) - 1 bag per 70 bricks - for rendered work.
15 Cockburn cream cement (small bags) - 1 bag per 90 bricks - for face work.
16 Brickies Sand - 1 cubic metre per 1000 bricks.
17 Angle irons (steel lintels) for over windows.
18 Fast wall lintels - for any internal openings.
19 Internal door frames.
20 Roof tie down straps (hoop irons) - usually 100 per house.
21 Do you have a Flushing Toilet for the tradesmen to use?
22 Flashing for over windows - 300 wide rolls.
23 Dampcourse - usually 20 litres per house.
24 Meter box.
25 Timber door stops and nails.
26 Have you hired a bin for the site?

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