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    I’m taking on the smaller ‘grey area’ tasks to save time

    May 30, 2019 4 minutes
    by Ian Rock

    IAN ROCK is a chartered surveyor and director of www. rightsurvey.co.uk. He is currently extending his family home by 100m

    After all the excitement of our (somewhat premature) ‘extension warming party’ weekend recently, the focus is now firmly on getting ready for the final building control inspection.

    Before releasing any outstanding payments to contractors, you need to know that building control are fully satisfied and have issued your completion certificate. As it happens, we’re still sitting on retention money (2.5% of the contract sum) that will shortly become due to the main contractor who built the shell of our extension. The payment will be made subject to them rectifying any defects that come to light during the six

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