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Contractor will not repair defects after completion: what can you do?Building defects after completion and no repair? Prepare your file and learn when a construction lawyer can assess your next step.
Disputing a contractor’s extra-work bill: when is legal help useful?Unexpected charges for extra building work? Distinguish changed instructions, fixed prices and estimates, and prepare your objection with evidence.
Contractor stops without finishing your renovation: what can you do?Your contractor no longer turns up? Document work and payments and have resumption, a final deadline or replacement assessed legally.
Putting a contractor in default: a notice suited to your building problemA contractor is not keeping agreements? Prepare a specific formal notice identifying the right party, failure, reasonable deadline and evidence.
Fixed price, guide price or time and materials: what building risk are you accepting?Have pricing checked before renovation. Distinguish fixed prices, guide prices, time-and-materials work and provisional sums; record warnings and limits.
Having a building quotation checked: what does your assignment really include?Signing a renovation quotation? Check work boundaries, drawings, exclusions, terms and acceptance before unclear agreements become binding.

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