New home builds, Christchurch.
From bare section to a slab your framing crew can start on. Builders hand it over to keep their programme moving; self-builders hand it over because someone finally tells them where to start.
For builders: your programme, protected.
You know the maths: a foundation that slips a week slips the frame, the roof, and every trade behind them. The value of handing us the start of the job is not the pour. It is that the pour happens on the day, because the surveyor, the plumber, the inspector and the pump were all chased by us, not by your site manager.
Repeat builder relationships are most of the book. That is the reference that matters.
- You get
- Ready for frames
- You chase
- Nobody
- Documented sign-off
- LBP
- Programme
- Poured on the day
For self-builders: someone who tells you where to start.
Coming direct with plans and no builder yet is normal: it is how a lot of good builds start, and it is the exact spot where people get stung, because every decision is new and every mistake is buried under concrete.
Start with the section and the plans. Mark reads both, tells you what the ground means, what the foundation will roughly run, and what has to happen in what order. From there, we run the start of the build the same way we run it for the trade.
- Free advice on the section. Before you buy if possible.
- A real from-price off your plans, not a teaser number.
- Every consent, trade and inspection on our list, not yours.
- One point of contact who answers the phone.
The first month of a build belongs to nobody.
It has more moving parts than any other fortnight of the project and no natural owner, which is why it is the one that slips.
Everyone is waiting on somebody else.
The surveyor waits on the earthworks, the plumber waits on the surveyor, the council waits on the plumber, and every wait is a week off the programme. For a builder that is a crew to manage on top of the job they were actually hired for. For someone coming direct with plans it is harder again: every decision is new, the ground is an unknown, and the expensive mistakes are the ones that end up under concrete where nobody can see them.
One book runs the start of the build.
Plans in, priced off your drawings. Ground checked against its TC class before the system is locked. Surveyor, plumber, engineer, underfloor heating and council booked and chased by us, in sequence, so the waits collapse into a programme. Every foundation signed off by a Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP), and the slab handed back ready for frames. Builders keep their programme. People coming direct finally get told what happens in what order.
Email the drawings, or ring 021 222 0952 and describe the section. Ten minutes usually settles what happens first.
The new home foundation, in detail.
Slabs down.
Three slabs, one rear lane
Frame packs delivered
Tight-access infill
Two slabs down
Rural slab, frames delivered
Ready for the framing crew
New build, established street
Pods down, pour next
Start the build properly.
Email the plans and get one number for the whole start of the build. Mark prices from the drawings and flags anything about the ground before it costs you.
Details, then the drawings.
PDFs or photos of the drawings are both fine. Everything sent here lands with Mark himself.