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John Ellis's Video Feb 8_ 2025 VEED

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
of
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
to
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
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pricing schedule thanks for watching
this and I look forward to seeing on the
next module get your assignment done
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