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The eight things clients ask before they sign, answered properly. If yours is not here, ring the office — somebody who has built one will pick up.
Ask us directlyHow soon can you start on site?
For a fit-out, usually four to six weeks from signature; for a new build, eight to twelve, because the permits and the setting-out take that long whoever holds the contract. We will tell you the honest date before you commit, not after.
How do you price a job?
On measured quantities from the drawings, priced against current supplier rates, with the preliminaries shown separately so you can see what the site itself costs. We do not price a percentage on a guess and then find the guess was low.
What happens when the client changes their mind?
You get a written variation with a price and a programme effect before the work is done — never a surprise on the next valuation. Changes are normal on a building; unpriced changes are not.
What cover do we get after handover?
Twelve months of defects liability on everything we build, with a one-working-day response on anything that stops you using the building. Manufacturer warranties on plant and roofing run longer and we hand those over on the day.
How do you handle safety on an occupied site?
A written method statement per activity, hoarding and dust screening before the first tool comes out, and out-of-hours working wherever the noise would otherwise reach people. Our incident rate is published in the monthly report.
Do you use subcontractors?
For specialist packages — lifts, HVAC, curtain walling — yes, from a list we have used for years. The frame, the blockwork, the finishes and the site management are our own people on our own books.
Is there a job too small for you?
Below about two hundred thousand cedis we are the wrong firm and will say so, usually with the name of somebody better suited. We would rather lose the enquiry than run a job badly.
Do you work outside Accra?
Regularly — Tema, Kasoa, Kumasi and the Western Region. Anything beyond a two-hour drive carries an accommodation line in the preliminaries, and it is shown separately so you can see it.
Still stuck
Ask the person who would run your job
The office line reaches a construction manager rather than a switchboard. Bring the drawings if you have them and the plot if you do not — either is enough to start.
