Precision
Designers, Inc. has a complement of qualified sub-contractors in all
trades from mechanical to masonry to millwork.
Most of these relationships extend back a decade or more.
It is the skill and dependability of these sub-contractors that enable us
to accurately assess the cost and duration of a project, and to perform all our
work with efficiency and competence.
DESIGN:
Precision Designers, Inc.
will work with a client from the project's inception,
designing structure and space, selecting materials, and deciding on details.
We guide our clients through all aspects of their job, from beginning to
end.
We draw all plans and blueprints needed for banking and
appraisal purposes, for sub-contractors use and City of Austin permits and
inspections. The design portion of a
project is contracted for separately from the construction portion.
Precision
Designers, Inc. will also build for a
client from pre-existing plans.
CONTRACT
METHODS: Precision
Designers, Inc. will contract with a client either of two ways; by the
bid
or the cost plus method.
THE BID METHOD:
The bid method is most appropriate for new
construction. When using the bid
method the client is given a detailed, fixed price, on which a contract is drawn
and signed. This bid and
contract specifies all aspects of design, materials and procedures.
The client, however, may make changes after work has begun.
These changes will result in either a credit from the
original, fixed price, or an extra charge.
A separate, ongoing credits and extras contract is kept
throughout the job, and reconciled upon completion.
THE COST-PLUS METHOD: The cost-plus method is generally
preferable when restoring or renovating, or when combining these with new
construction. It is difficult to foresee and evaluate all of the unknown factors
that accompany demolition and reconstruction.
When using the cost-plus method, the client pays the
actual, wholesale cost of construction materials and labor,
plus a fixed fee for management services.
Precision
Designers, Inc. prefers to fix the fee for
services at the beginning of the job rather than to charge a percentage of the
cost of the job. In this way
conflicts of interest are avoided, and the client’s interest is best served.
The cost-plus method is also appropriate for
contracting new construction.
REFERENCES:
Precision Designers, Inc. will, upon
request, provide the name and phone number of any client whose project appears
on this website.
BANKING:
Precision Designers, Inc.
requests that clients use Frost Bank for
interim financing when interest rates and all other variables are equal.
We will introduce a new client to our personal banker.
Frost Bank can also arrange for mortgage financing.