AboutPeter M. Elliott Expertise First response to queries regarding extensions of time, variations orders, site instructions and payment using FIDIC and other forms of Conditions of Contract, based on English Law, and derivatives only.
Experience Value . . .
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it's well to add something for the risk you run.
And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.
. . . John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
"We are too poor to buy something cheap"
.Romanian Proverb 2002
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
George Herbert (English poet 1593-1633)
I said it in Hebrew, I said it in Dutch,
I said it in German and Greek:
But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)
That English is what you speak!" Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Caroll
Match your presentation to the reader!
The joy of food lasts but an hour, of sleep but a day, of a woman, but a month, but the joy of a building lasts a lifetime. Syrian proverb.
Comments and observations leading to improvements in the translation of FIDIC Red & Yellow books into Romanian prior to approval by FIDIC (reference 'Preface to the Romanian edition')
consolidatedbuilders.irg wrote at 2008-10-08 02:15:43
10 sf is a good price for a 20x20 deck but for a 1000 sf deck built 5 years ago with lower wood costs... here is the skinny....
materials $5sf, labor at 1000 sf should be $4sf
if i built a deck 10x10=100sf it would be $14sf.
mechanics leins can only be executed when you are selling, and he would have to renew it every year even if it were 25 years... can he afford it? will he remember?
tell him to come and get the deck if you dont want it, but he would have to repair the soil, seed, landscape.. he would also have to have a city licensed contractor do it because he is no longer a resident there... he also would have to have his liability insurance made to your name from his insurance carrier... he would also have to have wormans compensation made to your name if he has any workers... if you play your cards right, you can out finess him......
