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hi guys welcome back this is module 2

Master Builders how to secure the best

team and prepare for construction and

through these steps we're going to show

you how we save our clients tens of

thousands of pounds and we're giving it

to you completely free so we're working

through the three modules dream me

Planet the ultimate foundation for your

project Master Builders how to secure

the best team and prepare for

construction and from ground to Glory

bringing your project to life so you've

completed the first module which was

dream it planet where we touched on

setting out your budget securing the

best uh plot of land for you and how to

negotiate that deal defining your vision

and estimating your costs achieving

planning permission and raising funds so

that was just a quick recap of what

we've covered and now we're going into

Master Builders how to secure the best

team and prepare for

construction so by going through this

we've helped our client sha in Pickin

who's a developer save 40,000 pounds on

design fees and placing orders with

contractors across multiple projects is

an experienced uh developer he's

International developer he's been in

Australia UK Spain and even Thailand

doing projects and he uses us to help

him secure the best designers and

contractors for his projects locally in

our area and we've saved him in excess

40,000 we've also helped Jenny in nton

save in excess of 20,000 by getting the

correct contractors on her large

extension it was about1 120,000 PS worth

of work and we saved a fast about of

money by getting the right people on

board and negotiating the correct

contract to make sure she wasn't hit by

variation after variation as the

construction Works went through and she

ended up with a large kitchen extension

for her

family to enjoy now we're going through

this master build road map and now we're

at step six so we're going to go through

these five steps today which starts at

step six so we've got planning your

build so we're going to show you how to

think about how to lay out a plan for

your build in terms of making sure all

the elements that you need to think

about laid out in a plan or program of

works and it's scheduled out so you've

got some sort of start and end date and

a plan of how that sequence of works is

going to get carried out then we've got

step seven securing building control

warranties and utilities and we're going

to talk about why it's so important to

keep this on the radar to making sure

that you're getting them on board at the

correct times to make sure that you

don't have to redo anything or you get

costs because you've done it in the

wrong sequence and then we're going to

go to step eight which is securing the

best contractors and materials for your

project and I know you're all want to

know how to do this this is a question

that we get asked all the time and we

save tens of thousands of pounds

hundreds of thousands of pounds through

this stage I've saved millions of pounds

throughout my career by getting this bit

nailed and done it correctly we're going

to tell you how to do that in Step eight

and step nine is all about project

management CDM health and safety

requirements and making sure you're on

the right side of the law and we're

going to explain what you need to think

about and consider and the things that

you need in place before you start on

site and then the last one is Step 10

prepare preparing site ready for

construction we're going to talk about

why it's important to prepare your site

ready for construction so you set up in

an effective way to make sure you

logistically run the site correctly and

don't incur costs that you don't need to

incur so that's a quick overview of what

we're going to go through and let's get

into it so step six is planning your

build so what you need to do here is sit

down as a team so by this point you've

probably got a couple of professionals

involved or you've got experience so you

need to sit down as a team and plan out

where you are currently and how are you

going to get to the completion of this

project whether you're doing one build

uh single property or whether you doing

multiple properties you need to have a

rough idea of how you're going to carry

out that sequence of works so how are

you going to do the procurement phase

how you going to do the delivery phase

and you're going to set set that out in

a program of works like this one where

this is a a piece of software that we've

used we use multiple softwares to carry

out these sort of programs we can in

Excel we can use uh Microsoft all

different programs available to you

online and what we do is we list out all

the elements of work that we need to

think about and then we lay it out in a

bar chart and this takes us through

right to the completion of the project

and what this does it arms us with the

knowledge of knowing when to do that

element of the work so by putting this

down on a plan it enables us to program

the works correctly and also you

understand how how the finances need to

be released um etc for cash flows and

all all these um things that you need to

think about when you're carrying out

construction project so you want to get

round the table with all the people that

are involved and map this out the best

you can using as much of the PE of the

professionals experience to make sure

that you've got a robust plan for your

build project and then you want to be

getting your construction detail drawing

drawings done by your architect so

touched on the different drawings that

you're going to get from your architect

once you get this stage you're going to

instruct them to carry out the detailed

drawings for construction to get through

building control and warranty providers

and why do we do this because we want to

get the drawings ready to get them

approved by build control and we want to

put them in the tender packages that

we're going to send out to the

contractors to price because by doing

this we get much more robust price from

the contractor so when we get to site

we're not going to get hit for

variations because variations are going

to cost you money that you can't see and

once you place an order with a

contractor and you're going for

variations that element of work

typically cost more than if if you had

negotiated it into his initial price so

the construction detail drawings or the

building control drawings will look like

this you'll have a bit more detail on

there sections through the building

showing the details of the foundations

the structure of the wall how the roof

elements are put together listing out

the different elements that are on there

that need to be included in the prices

that you're getting back from your

contractors such as details where you've

got D windows and how how that detail

connects into the pitch roof all this

information will be on your construction

detail drawings or your building control

drawings so the building control

warranty providers and your Builders

understand how this building is going to

get put together it's not just going to

be what the building is going to look

like it's going to be how the elements

are going to be put together and the

construction details it's going to take

to do that and this enables the design

the uh contractors to Pro price that

information and allow for the correct uh

pieces of Timber block work whatever it

may be needed or required to carry out

that build within their

price and then what once you've got your

program of work set out this enables you

to do a procurement strategy so some of

you will be going for a main contractor

and uh if you're a developer you might

be just going for a m contractor and get

them to do all the works but for those

of you who are doing self builds even

developers you may be splitting it down

into specialized packages because it's

more cost effective now there is health

and safety uh and CDM regulation

complications when you do this but there

is means and ways to get around that and

it depends on your particular situation

so I can't give too much um uh guidance

here but can I can just say whichever

way you go for is possible you just got

to be mindful of the health and safety

um layout of how how we structure your

your setup but this is called the

procurement strategy so what we're doing

here is we getting the program of works

that you've carried out and listed all

the elements works that are to be done

on that project and then you can put the

start date of that element that works in

here and what this does then is for so

if we go for worst treatment here line

two worst treatment so we're staying it

started it needed to start on the 25th

of November 2024 so we said there was a

four-week leading for the

laborers so for the labor for that

element of the work so that means is

it's going to take four weeks for the

guys to get to site once you give them a

notice to commence

so you're basically saying yes we're

ready for you to start the worst

treatment in four weeks time they're

then going to PL you into their diary

but they need four weeks notice to

enable them to get on site on on the

correct day and then this is your

material leading so it's going to take

eight weeks from uh ordering the

material for that material to be

delivered to site so you've got an 8we

leading there and then you've got two

weeks to design so some items of work

will have elements to design it so this

is a wor treatment plan so normally it's

a specialist L designed thing sometimes

your engineers can design it they give

you an outline design and then the

specialist will will finish the design

as per the engineers outline if you like

so sometimes you've got a design period

that needs to be captured in this uh

schedule and this then gives you a total

leading time of 10 weeks which doesn't

take into account the four because the

four actually is Incorporated in this

element the four is more to make sure

you give them the four weeks notes to

start on site but because you've got an

8we leading time that's more than the

four so you don't have to be concerned

about adding the four onto the eight and

the two so this gives you a 10 we

leading time from um when you place the

order for them to do the design get the

material and be on

site so by doing this you can see it

Maps out when you need to place the

order and then we go back one more step

so you're giving yourself two weeks to

evaluate the tenders after they've been

returned so that means you've got to get

the tenders back on the 2nd of September

to give you two weeks to place the order

on the 16th of September and then once

again youve given yourself two weeks for

the T or you've given the the

contractors two weeks to price the job

sometimes you give them three or four

weeks depending on how much information

you're going to give them but two weeks

is a good guidance for somebody to turn

up around the price four weeks and

forget about it if you give them two

weeks and put it in the diary and if you

chase them up you tend tend to get a

good uh return rate and and then that

two weeks takes you to the 19th of

August so you need to send the inquiry

out to them on the 19th of August giving

them two weeks to return on the 2 so it

gives you two weeks to do the analysis

and place the order on the 16th to make

sure they're on site on the 25th of

November and then to go back to the

beginning step you've given yourself one

week to pull the information together so

you need to be pulling the information

together on the 12th of August giving

yourself a week to colate the full

tender to send it out uh for a tender

inquiry on the 19th so then they can

return on the 2nd of September you can

then do the analysis and see who you're

going to work with and place your within

two weeks on 16th of September to make

sure they're on site on the 25th of

November and this is all drop dead dates

obviously when you do these schedules

you actually want to beat these dates

but this is the worst case scenario you

need to have you drop dead dates here uh

to make sure that you're sending your

tenders out or preparing to send your

tenders out on time but of course if

say if you're carrying this out in early

2024 which we were then we're going to

try and stay in front of the curve and

get all these complete even before the

drop dead dates but it's good practice

to do this to make you aware of when you

need to be doing the information very

final date if you

like and then we use this tracking sheet

also to track who we're sending the

information out to so this was Timber

frames we sent out to multiple

contractors we had their email addresses

here you put the contact names in this

ele uh in this column

here the contact numbers the location of

them uh the social or the website or the

social media site and then issue date of

the of the tender going out to them goes

in there and then once they come back

with any information such as this one

did they said they only worked in Corall

so we took them out ignore the colors

that was something I Ed myself you don't

have to worry too much about that um and

then once you start getting the return

dates you put the return dates in here

and you could put their overall price in

there but that isn't the full price

because you need to read the terms and

conditions and and the the inclusions

and exclusions but you can put the

higher level price in there just to get

a feel for who's in the running and

who's not so tip one here is to use a

professional to help you map out this

process logically using their experience

so now if you haven't done many

construction projects you probably don't

have uh the knowledge to map out the

process correctly if you're a developer

you you you might be thinking I don't

need know all this detail because I'm

just going to go over a main contractor

but you need to know roughly when

they're starting on site and when

they're going to complete especially if

you're getting finan because they're

going to want to know roughly when

they're releasing the money so it's key

really that you use a professional to

get a good project plan put in place uh

and use somebody who's got experience

tip two getting getting construction

detail drawings done ASAP and like I

said this is going to help you get

approval for building control your

warranty providers and also you want the

detailed drawings to go in your tenders

to make sure that your contractors are

pricing the detailed information that

you're going to build to so when you

place the order you're not getting hit

for variations when you bring in new

information into the fold because what

happens when you place the order just

make it round numbers make it easy for

£100,000 all of a sudden you give them

two or three drawings that they didn't

have which shows all these different

details which they haven't allowed for

and then all of a sudden you're getting

variations that you could have avoided

if you'd have had that information

included in the order and tip three the

project plan should be updated weekly as

things unfold through the procurement

stage and build stages so as you go

through the procurement stage and you're

getting feedback from your contractors

subcontractors on lead times their

availability you can then adapt your uh

project plan to to the feedback and keep

everybody in the project in tune with

what's going on and where we currently

are against the project plan so now

we're going to step seven secure

building control

Insurance

um and warranties I think it's a bit of

a spelling mistake there building oh

sorry secure building Insurance building

control warranties and

utilities so why do we need to do this

so first of all that's a trench with the

mall in on quite a large game that I was

involved in now you need to know you

need to get building control and you

what Utilities in your warranty sorted

early doors so you know when they're

going to be coming in so you want

building control and you warrant is as

soon as you know you're starting on site

you want to be talking with them guys

sending them your drawings and ideally

getting them to approve your drawings so

that you know that you can build to them

drawings and as long as you build them

drawings you've met their requirements

and they're just going to come out

periodically at certain uh stages

throughout the build typically when you

pull the foundations when you P the

foundations when you get up to DPC level

uh when you get up to your first floor

height when you get up to your roof

plate when you go water tight all these

stages they'll come out and they'll tell

you when they need to come out and you

just need need to make sure they're

coming out on time but we get them

involved early doors now to have them on

board to approve your drawings to make

sure that you can build them drawings so

then drawings are going to need tender

packs uh out to your uh uh your

contractors so these have been approved

by your building control uh ideally if

you've had if you've had enough time to

do that so you know that them tenders

are robust and when you place some

orders as long as you build as per the

orders as per the information that

you've given them you're going to get it

signed off by building control and your

warranty providers

and this is just another share trench

where we've got uh Services coming in

and you want to know when your utilities

are coming in because if you are doing

development you need to know when you're

going to get your power on and when you

can do your commissioning and he can

finish your

handovers Etc so you can uh go a little

bit too early with this so if if your

utilities you if you've got quite a long

program uh say a year long or two year

long depending on how big your scheme is

a year is probably realistic in most

cases then you might want to wait till

six month into your build before you

speak to your utilities guys because

sometimes once you place an order with

the utilities guys they have got to put

that install in within six month

otherwise you have to go back for a

requote which sometimes costs you a

little bit of money uh but it's always

good to get the prices off them and get

a quote off them because then you know

how much it's going to cost you can

understand what their lead time is uh

and you just need to keep it on your

radar because the last thing you want to

do is not get this put in at the right

time uh and have to do uh additional

Works to get into the

building so like I've touched on there

you also need to think about your

building insurance so most of your

self-builders you need to get building

Insurance all contractors developers

you're going to need to get building

insurance this is to ensure you against

any accidents that are happening on on

the building works from uh anyone

working on the site or that may get

affected by uh the works from the site

and this is to protect you and also

protects the warranty providers and and

the lenders if they're lending the money

and there's things that happen accidents

that happen and there's works that need

to be rectified cost of those accidents

such as I don't know a dumper driving a

knocking down a wall all these

insurances need to be in place the

insurances are going to want to know how

much your build cost are estimated to be

what's the value of the property at the

end and what's the period of time it's

going to take you to carry out the works

hence why getting your program and your

plan and all the rest of it done at that

stage is key so you can give them the

information also as I've touched on you

want to get approved drawings so you

want to send your detailed drawings to

the building control and the warranty

providers to get their approval so you

know when they're going out in the

tender packs and you're getting them

prices returned you're placing the

orders against a robust set of

information all you're going to do is

then monitor that as it comes out the

ground that it's getting built as per

those drawings and you won't have any

problems getting sign off from your

building control and warranty providers

so tip one get the prices for your

building insurance based on your program

and the value of your bill

costs tip two is provide your drains to

building control for their approval this

is also to warranty providers and also

include

it in get the detail drawings included

in your contract is tender packs so you

get robust prices back from them and tip

three is send your drawings to your

warranty provider to seek their approval

as well I think this was in the same

this is one of the ter tips maybe uh and

it just make sure that it gets a robust

quotation back from them and

that everything's Ticky Boo and going to

get signed

off so step eight secure the best

contractors and materials for your

project so tip one is get prices uh for

your building Insurance based on your

program and the value of your Bild cost

as I've touched on that's why it's

important to get your program done so

you understand the length of time that

you're going to be on site and then you

can secure your insurance based on the

value of your build costs and final

value of the building and also the

period that you're going to be on site

sometimes it's good practice to give

yourself an extra three months in that

quotation uh just in case there's any

delays on site but that's completely up

you and then the next tip is provide

your drawings to building control for

their approval before proceeding to have

contractors price them so if you've got

the time it's good practice to get all

your drawings signed off by a building

control before you send them out to your

um contractors to price but it depends

how much time you've got but if you've

got the time do this because then you

know the information that you sent to

the contractors is going to get uh he

going to give you it's going to give the

information that you're actually going

to build up and there's going to be no

variation from them uh hopefully tip

three send your drawings to your

warranty provider to seek their approval

and obtain a robust quotation to place

an order so you want to send your

drawings to your warranty provider tell

them the build cost the value of the

building once it's complete and this is

going to give them the information that

they need to provide you a quotation for

providing a warranty for your build and

this is why it's important to get

warranties on your building because

if you want to sell that building in the

future every mortgage company is going

to want a warranty so that's why it's

important some people you get these

horror stories that they start building

they come out the ground and they

haven't had a warranty provider involved

all of a sudden they've run out of money

and then they need to get a warranty to

raise uh finance and they haven't got to

provide it and then they're in that

catch 22 where they haven't done what

they needed to do and basically they

can't get a warranty and it's a very

uh dire situation to be in so it's

crucial that you get your warranty uh

signed uh you warranty in place before

you carry out your project uh for one of

a better phrase so step eight securing

the best contractors and materials for

your

project so to do this you need to send

out tender inquiries so if you haven't

got experiencing this I'm telling you

now I'm I've I've done I've delivered

over I've been involved in Del living

over 200 million pound worth of work and

the main part of that or a key part of

that was me pulling the tender inquiries

together and sending them out and with

Decades of experience now under myel

this is a fine art that you learn over a

process of times and the bigger and more

complex your project the harder it

becomes and this is where you need to

get professionals involved if you

haven't got an experience you need

professional involves here otherwise

this is where you're going to lose a lot

of money by doing this incorrectly and

getting into disputes by doing this

correctly you avoid disputes everybody

knows what they're doing and you get a a

a good set of prices back from your um

contractors that you can place robust

orders against so and what and inside

this you can have like bills of

quantities so this is a Bild of

quantities for a groundworks for a job I

was involved in and it lists out all the

elements of work that they're going to

price so depending on the size of your

scheme is the more the more information

that they're going to be getting and

then what this enables you to do is once

you get the prices back here we've done

analysis look the pricing schedule that

we're going to give you will be like

this and what we've got here is what we

had in originally for our tender

allowance so this could be what your

estimator or Qs and priced it at so your

allowance in and then what the actual

rates are coming back from your

contractors and like I've said before

the pricing schedules give you the

detail that you need to be able to

negotiate better prices so so you can go

pick prices out of the most um you know

expensive contractors where they're

cheaper than the most competitive

contractor and use them rates to

negotiate the most competitive

contractor down on certain elements to

bring him even more competitive and get

massive savings and I've done this

several times I've done this on every

project I've work on and and it just

saves you tens of thousands of pounds if

you do it correctly depending on the

size of your project you're on but this

process is is key to to avoiding wasting

thousands of pounds make sure you got

professional help in you at this

point and then you need to be placing

contracts so depending on the size of

your scheme you can be doing bport

projects if you're doing self builds

depending on the type of contractor

you're using are you using uh main

contractors are you using uh specialist

contractors and and project managing and

breaking it down into smaller project

packages to get better value for your

money and then if you're developers

you're using main contracts and if

you're doing big schemes you want to

think about doing JCT contracts or NEC

contracts I would probably say JCT

contracts uh are more favorable for for

the type of build you're doing NEC a

more government govern government driven

sort of contract and it's more of

working together but the're very hard to

administer so JCT is much easier to

administer and it gives you a lot of

protection and it also gives protection

to the contractors that you've got an

obligation to pay them it should the

works get carried out um contracts need

to be in place but if you employ the

correct people you can place a contract

and you don't have to get it out and

argue over it you know the whole whole

point is having a contract in place so

everybody knows what they're doing but

actually you want to have the contract

and just make sure that you do what it

says in the contract for for your UH

responsibilities and the contractor does

their responsibilities and you never

really have to go back and revisit the

contract after it's signed and agreed

but it's important that you have a in

place because it protects you you know

the larger the the scheme the more

complex you need these in place uh and

also if you are doing designs uh if you

are doing uh developments you some of

the elements of work will need

warranties provided um so there might be

design elements with warranties and and

that's easier to tie them in and get

them included in the contracts and

that's something you need to include

when you're placing the orders you don't

want to be trying to agree a warranty

being included after you place the order

order because the contract that will

have not price of that so that's an

extra so if you

negotiating it in the um original

contract before you place the order with

them you'll find it much easier because

I've been on projects where previous con

uh previous contract administrators

haven't included the warranties and then

we've had to go back at the end of the

project when it's nearly finished and

ask contractors for warranties and the

you know it's very hard to get them if

you've not got included in the contract

documents if you've got it included in

the contract contract documents it's

much easier because you can withhold

payment until obviously the warrant are

provided and then you're going to get

yourself a schedule of materials so all

depends on if you're you're breaking it

down and ordering the materials you set

yourself to save money but if you are

you want schedule of the material so you

need the measurement of all the elements

that you need and you can send this

scheduled to

suppliers and you can get them to price

it and by giving them full schedule with

all the materials required for your

project you're going to get the best

prices back so it's called the best

buying game so the more you buy from

that one um Merchant the the better

price he going to give you so you're

going to be able to negotiate the best

discounts and you can send this out to

four or five people locally and then you

can put them next to each other and

check each other's rates and see who's

the cheapest on different elements and

try to do uh a global uh deal with one

person negotiating him down where he's a

bit expensive on different elements of

the material

and then you want to be going out and

vetting your your um your contractors

especially if you haven't work with them

the before we tell our clients we vet

them by checking um getting contact

details for people have worked with

previously give them a call see what

it's like been dealing with them and

then we will send our clients out to

look at projects that they've previously

finished uh that are similar to the

project we're doing it ideally and then

go and speak to the people who own that

property or at least go and look at the

properties and check the quality of it

to make sure that the people that you're

dealing with are going to be um

sufficient to carry out your project to

the correct standard on time and within

budget so tip one use a professional to

help you execute the procurement plan to

obtain the best quotations for your

project so it's key to get a

professional involved to make sure you

procure your job professionally and you

wrap up your contracts to make sure that

you limit your risks going into your

your construction phase and tip two

place your orders with your suppliers to

get the best prices so place your orders

we suppliers to get the best prices and

issue contracts to your contractors

early to ensure you get them booked in

yeah so what I'm saying here

is get you get your prices back and once

you know you're doing going with them

place your orders as quickly as you can

why because you're securing the prices

because prices do what they only go one

way they go up typically unless you have

a blacks one event such as

covid Etc sometimes they go flying up

and then the set a little bit come down

but I'll tell you now from my

experience all the time prices are going

up so the quicker that you can secure

the price that it's at the better and

you can do this with your suppliers and

they can stock it up into their yard and

then you can just call it off when

you're ready or if you've got a lot of

room on site and a secure place to put

it uh that it's clean and tidy depending

on what that material is you can have it

delivered to site and it's secure on

site and in place and it's going to get

you your best buying gains and by

placing your orders with your

contractors early they've got a good

understanding of when they're going to

be starting on site and they can get

booked you you booked into the diary

rather than waiting till the last minute

and then tip free ensure that you thly

vet your contractors to make before

awarding them with any contracts to make

sure that you're heading into contract

with somebody it that you can trust and

you know that they're going to be carry

out the works as expected to the correct

standard on time

and they're going to be easy to deal

with so then we're moving on now to step

nine which is project management and CDM

health and safety

requirements

so you have got a legal requirement

whether yourself Builder or developer to

make sure the health and safety on your

s's carried out depending on what

position you're in is how much of a

responsibility you've got but under the

CDM regulations all clients developers

Etc got responsibilities I'm not going

to go into the complete uh uh all the

detail about this but I'm going to give

you a good overview so you need to have

your pre-construction information pulled

together this is where the site's going

to be what works getting carried out on

the site you know you need to know the

local hospital names and you need to be

making people aware of the specific

risks associated with that site so that

they can carry out their own risk

assessments and produce method

statements for their works and should

anybody have an accident they then know

the process of what they need to go

through to get to the local hospitals

Etc so you're going to have site rules

listed in here so your general site

rules so this is going to be different

for every site because there's different

risks on every site so you need to carry

out a risk assessment based on the

information that you've got and

highlight any risks um to people and set

out your rules for your site like I said

you need to know where the locus the

local uh hospitals are so if accidents

do happen on your site people can get

there and then you want construction

phase plans and these construction phase

plans are a rough overview uh of how

you're going to carry out the works and

the health and safety risk involved with

carrying out the works and these evolve

as the project goes on so at the

beginning your construction phase plan

will be setting up your site and then

doing your foundations and obviously the

risks are uh putting the fencing out U

uh and also pulling the foundations

these are the risks that you need to be

highlighting in this construction phase

plan and you're going to be showing

logistic maps of how your site's going

to be laid

out and this is one that was done by one

of our clients so you can see the

different phases of different elements

of Works going on um throughout his

project so it's just as as the project

evolves this construction phase plan

evolves so this should be carried out by

your main contractor but if you are a

developer or self-builder you you may

have to do the first one and if you're

trying to project manage it yourself

you're going to have to do these

yourself we can help you do these um

they're not as hard as as the sound or

look and then you want a site setup list

so if you're a self Builder you want to

know what you need to do to set up your

site and if you're um a developer this

will probably be carried out by a main

contractor but if you're doing that

yourself you're going to need a site

setup list so this is going to list out

all the things that you need to think

about when you're setting up your site

like your cabins your fencing your

health and safety all these sort of

things you want to have on a list so

when you get to site you've got a list

to execute against and you set your site

up correctly so tip one compile the

legal documentation before starting uh

site because you don't want to be

starting on site and trying to compile

all this information because it's going

to be stressful enough as it is so do

this up front uh so you start

prepared deal with any planning

pre-commencement conditions before

starting on site so when you get

planning approved they might give you

some pre-commencement conditions so this

could be signing off your brick work

signing off your materials uh having

tree protection put in place so it's

good practice to get all this done and

approved by planning before you start on

site so once again you're not trying to

chase Your Tail uh and do it while

you're on site and you might even get

shut down by planning if you don't do

this and then come and put a hold on

your project and you don't want to do

that because obviously some of you will

be getting finance and you don't want

any delays uh in repaying your Finance

so tip three ensure you have detailed

action plan for setting up your site

ready for construction phase so make

sure you have a detailed action plan so

you know how you're setting up your site

you know all the materials that you need

you've got plan of action how you're

going to do it you're going to land on

site with st you know an excavator pull

the site clear it all ready get your

stone down put your fencing up put your

cabins in have this list of already

carried out so when you get to site you

just execute against the list so step 10

is prepare your site ready for

construction so here we're going to go

through why it's important to prepare

site so here you can see in this picture

we've cut down a tree on the site down

exitor we had a tree that was looking

like it was going to die and fall into

the construction area so before we

started on site we cut down a tree we

also following that we pulled the top

soil off the area of the site why do we

do this well top soil is a commodity so

we stop pile the top top so top soil get

my words out here why do we do that

because we don't want to pay to take the

top soil away to then PIR to bring it

back at the end and put it in the

landscaped area so we stock pile it here

there's a certain way you do it to make

sure that it could stay there for a

period of time and grass will eventually

grow in there if if done right and water

will run off properly so this has been

quite well done and it's just put to the

side of the site and at the end of the

job it'll be spread across the grass

areas and seeded and this can save you

anywhere from a couple of thousand

pounds to hundreds of thousands of

pounds depending on the size of your

site and uh sometimes if you've got too

much top soil that you can't reuse it

you may find people locally who can make

use of your top cell some of them may

buy it off you or they may take it away

for free I had a site once in Doncaster

we had quite a lot of top sell coming

out but luckily we found a site

delivering some houses about 300 houses

around the corner we went and knocked on

the site cabin door spoke to the site

manager and said look we got a lot top s

would you like it he said yes it was

great because he actually paid for the

wagons to come take it away and we just

loaded the wagons for him so we didn't

have to pay for the wagons to come take

it away so these are things that you can

think about whether you're developer or

self Builder and then you need to be

setting up your fencing it's a

requirement under um law I think by the

hsse it is by the HS say you've got to

put up a fence all the way around the

red line boundary of your site so when

your planning gets approved they give

you a red line boundary and under the

hsse regulations you have got to put up

uh a secure fence to stop people coming

in and if you're in built up areas it's

key because you're going to get kids

coming into site you don't want them

following falling into a trench having

an accident them because it's not going

to be good for them and potentially

you're going to be viable uh liable um

and you're going to get sued and you

know you can go to prism for this sort

of thing so it's it's Cru it's crucial

that you think about all these risks um

if you're out in the sticks and there's

nobody going to go cross it that's you

know some people don't put the fence but

like I say is a legal requirement by the

hsse so if you haven't got it up to come

out to site potentially you could get

shut

down uh and then you want to be putting

some Stone down down so wherever your

cabins are going if you're putting the

cabins in you need Stone down most most

of the time sometimes you need to get an

engineer to tell you what you're doing

but most of the time if you got good

ground you can you can pull the top soil

off put some Stone down two 300 mil

thick depending on what how good your

ground is and then you plant your cabins

on that and that just stops your cabin

from sinking if you do get a lot of rain

Etc uh and you can use that stone at the

end under your paved areas um so under

under your under your like patios Etc so

it it doesn't have to be sacrificial if

you

like and then you need to think about

where you're setting up your site cabins

so here we set the site cabins up at the

front of the

site which was a landscaped area so we

didn't have to move them around the site

so if you if you put them in an area you

don't want to put them somewhere then

you're going to have to remove them so

think about

this put some thought into how you going

to logistically deliver your your

project and where you're going to put

your sight setup you know if you're

develop this will be down to the main

contractor but obviously you have got um

uh you have got some liability under CDM

regulations to check that they're doing

everything correctly uh and and O

oversee it you might have a CDM advisor

they might check it for you um and just

make sure that things are getting done

uh efficiently and

correctly uh and this is just another

example this is a job that i' done 27

million pound Academy but you can see

here the cabins have been put at the

front uh so that have to be removed

around the site and another good thing

dependent on what you're doing even if

you're doing one property is to put a

stone Hall Road around your site uh why

do we do this so we can drive materials

around Sight uh and keep the site clean

and tidy because as you'll all know

you've all seen sites when it starts to

get messy people are driving around

mud's getting churned up and it becomes

a quad Mayan when you put a temporary

Road in you avoid that so you get

cleaner s yes it still gets a little bit

slushy and muddy sometimes but it's a

lot cleaner it's a lot easier to move

your materials around Sight it's good

for building your scaffolding off and

then at the end it's not sacrificial

because nine times out of 10 you've got

paved paved areas such as Pathways

patios Etc around the building anyway so

it just it just doubles up for your

construction details because under

patios you've got to put Stone

underneath that as a construction detail

so it do sink anywhere so it's good

practice to put Hall Roads in uh so you

can get around Sight and make sure your

cabin's in a a good location

so you don't have to move

it uh so tip one there clear the site by

removing any debr and trees where

required so you've got a good clean

sight ready for construction and then

tip two carry out a cut and fill process

to level the sight and start any usable

top soil in a well situated location for

future use or landscaping and if you

can't do that try to sell it to somebody

locally if possible and tip three

position your sight cabin strategically

to avoid disrup in construction or

requiring relocation so as I've touched

on you don't want to be putting your cab

in there and then finding out all

actually I'm building a house there so

I'll put it there you only want to be

doing it once so think about it if you

did if you you know if you're building

10 houses you want to just put your

cabins in once you don't want to be keep

moving it every time you build a house

there so think about this up front it

can save you some money it's pretty

obvious to me but it might not be

obvious to you guys so that's why I put

it in so that's it we've come to the end

of module two I'm sure you've got

massive value from this um I've enjoyed

giving you this information for

completely free and you can see how we

help our clients through this Pro this

process to make sure that they do it

correctly swiftly and cost effectively

so this was Master Builders how to

secure the best team and prepare for

construction and we've gone through

these five steps so planning your build

we talked about why it's critical to

think about all the elements you build

and having a plan of how you're going to

do that so you can secure finan and

insurance and all the rest of it and

then we talked about building control

warranties and utilities and why it's

key to get them on board early to make

sure that you're getting the sign offs

of required and that you build into

details that you know that are going to

get signed off to and you can include

them in your tenders then we talked on

step eight securing the best contractors

and materials for your site so we talked

about getting a professional involved

send the information out to make sure

that when you place some orders you wrap

up the contracts effectively so you

don't end up in disputes and end up

getting hit for variation

and your cost spiraling out control and

then step nine was project management so

project management CDM and health and

safety so we talked about the importance

of thinking about keeping everybody

involved in the project understanding

the risks on the project making people

aware of that so when the price in the

job they know what they're up against

making them aware of any specific risks

on the project and making sure you've

got the documentation in place and a

list of information in place so when you

start on site you know what you're doing

and then step 10 was prepare your site

so getting rid of the

trees um clearing the site doing the cut

and fill and potentially selling top

soil and setting up your cabins in the

correct place ready for your

construction phase so through these

steps alone we've saved thousands with

our with our clients tens of thousands

if not hundreds of thousands millions of

pounds through my career by doing this

correctly and now we're going to touch

on what we're going to go through the

next module from ground to Glory

bringing your project to life

so we're going to go through these steps

so we're going to go through Step 11

which is foundations we're going to talk

about foundations and demolition at this

point for those of you doing

refurbishment and the importance of why

you need to get that bit right to make

sure you don't waste thousands of pounds

tens of thousands of pounds and then

step 12 is construction constructing the

framework and achieving a watertight

seal we're going to talk about the

importance of building your structure

correctly and doing it in the right the

right way to make sure you don't waste

money and then achieving that watertight

seal so you seal the building and you

can carry out the fit out correctly and

then Step 13 is fitting out your new

home and Landscaping we going to talk

about how you go about sequence in the

work keeping people involved and why you

can do the Landscaping at the same time

to save time and then step 14 is

snagging an air test so understanding

the importance of snagging the works and

getting the air test carried out to pass

building control requirements and then

15 achieving building control and

warranty sign off and getting the

certificate

ification to to to be complete and ready

for hand over and then step six is

moving into your new home or handing

over your development if you like

depending on which situation you're in

so the next elements we're going to show

you how we save our clients tens of

thousands of pounds as we've done

through the whole process and build your

project in

budget by following them steps we've

save Richard £70,000 by utilizing our

pricing schedule and negotiating a

turnkey solution

with his builder in exitor so we're down

in exitor currently you might seen our

review from Richard where we helped him

save 71,000 through the procurement

stage and now we're currently at roof

level we're just putting the roof

structuring at the minute so we'll be

looking to complete this project in next

couple of months and we've got a main

contractor on site and he's a self

Builder it's never built anything before

I drove down to see him and that's the

picture of me and him on site lovely

scene and then we've also saved well

£15,000 by using our pricing schedule by

reviewing each quote carefully and

managing saving 15,000 on the on the

drainage element alone so that's just on

one element just £1 155,000 and he's

also self a self-builder he's down in

Portsmouth and I went out to see him end

of last year and he's now currently just

pulling all his site ready for

construction so remember by completing

the course within five days we're giving

you the pricing schedule that we use

with our clients and our high ticket

program so our high ticket program is

£12,000 but we give you a price based on

your project and require re Ms so some

people just want mentoring to make sure

we can save them money and some people

want a little bit more Hands-On where we

get involved and help them negotiate

with the contractors but it's £12,000 is

a good starting point for you to know

how much it costs but you're going to

get this pricing schedule which you can

use on your project whether you work

with us or not and you can use it to

save tens of thousands of pounds like we

do and all you got to do is complete

within five days and you'll get access

to this and if you don't complete within

5 days unfortunately we remove you

because it's only for the action takers

because we want to reward the action

takers and we do this to give you the

motivation to complete to get the the

schedule so you can save tens of

thousands of pounds using the schedule

as I have done throughout my career and

if you don't like to say we will have to

remove you so we've got rules that we've

got to stick to but hopefully I'll see

you all completing getting schedule and

you may even jump on a call with me and

decide to to work with me on your

project and I'd love to uh I'd love to

see you so now is the time for you to do

your assignment so what's your biggest

takeaway what's your your biggest

concern after watching this module

remember the rules are post the

assignments as required read the

information before this video I'll tell

you exactly how to do it if you break

the rule you must be banned so if you

don't do it properly we're just going to

remove you we're giving you this free

information all we ask you to do is

follow the rules very simple and you're

going to get access to the uh the

pricing schedule thanks for watching

this and I look forward to seeing on the

next module get your assignment done

I'll see you soon

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